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benno weiner

November 26, 2020 By Pamela Logan

How Communism Came to Amdo: Benno Weiner’s new book

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

Filed Under: history Tagged With: Amdo, benno weiner, Communism, cultural revolution, tibet

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