Contents
Translator’s Introduction
Preface
1. The Story of My Family
2. My Childhood
3. The March 10th Uprising
4. The Chinese Fan the Flames of War
5. Imprisoned at the Tibet Military District Headquarters
6. Imprisoned at the Norbu Lingka Barracks
7. At the Nga-chen Power Station Construction Site
8. In Téring Prison
9. In Drapchi Prison
10. The Trong-nying Prison Farm
11. Back Home from Prison
12. The Agitation by the Muslims of Woba-ling
13. The Fall of the Panchen Lama
14. The Misuse of Education
15. The Establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region
16. The Onset of the Cultural Revolution
17. The June 7th Massacre
18. A Disastrous New Year
19. Old
Tsampa
in Old Méru
20. The Sino-Soviet War Brings Increased Oppression
21. The “One Smash and Three Antis” Campaign
22. The “Great Massacre”
23. PLA Soldiers Destroy the Fruits of the People’s Labor in the Marshes
24. The Systematic Destruction of Ganden Monastery
25. Sent to Kongpo for the Second Time
26. The Xichao Dachang Timber Yard
27. The Tölung Power Station Construction Camp
28. The Lin Biao Affair
29. The Defamation Campaign
30. “Socialist Transformation”
31. The Banak-shöl Production Cooperative
32. The Farmer’s Life
33. The Death of Mao Zedong and Subsequent Developments
34. The Rewards of My Hard Work
35. Working in the Potala Palace
36. At the Tibet Academy of Social Science
Epilogue: Leaving Tibet
Index