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June 17, 2008
Charlene E. Makley, MA’93, PhD’99
The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China, University of California Press, 2007.
The book: This study provides an account of the highly contested process through which the Tibetan Buddhist region of Labrang became incorporated into the People's Republic of China. Drawing on 13 years of archival research and fieldwork in and around the famous Geluk sect Tibetan Buddhist monastery, this book situates the process of incorporation in the violent upheavals of Maoist socialist transformation that took place from 1950 through the 1970s and in the transition to globalization via Deng Xiaoping's capitalist market reforms of the 1980s and 1990s. Synthesizing social theory, the book finds that incorporation had different effects for Tibetan men and women, creating painful dilemmas across generations.
The author: Charlene E. Makley is associate professor of anthropology at Reed College.
Web site: www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10818.php
Posted by lingjiex at June 17, 2008 01:22 PM