Talking to Tibetans in Kham using the Chinese language, one often hears the phrase wenhua dageming. It translates to “Great Cultural Revolution,” which was a violent and extreme political movement in China, engineered by Mao, that started in 1966 and ended with Mao’s death in 1976. I often heard … [Read more...] about How Communism Came to Amdo: Benno Weiner’s new book
Travels to Tibet, Inner Mongolia, China & the Silk Road
