Panel 24: Post-Revolutionary Narratives: or, how to Retell Early Tibetan Encounters with the Chinese Communists
Convenors: Benno Weiner, Françoise Robin, Robert Barnett
Discussant: Uradyn Bulag
SATURDAY July 27
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Part I: Histories of Early Encounters Chair: Françoise Robin |
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| 9:00-9:20 | Mao, the CCP and the Tibetan Question in 1949-1950
Alexandre Raymond |
| 9:20-9:40 | ང་ཕོད་ངག་དབང་འཇིགས་མེད་ཀྱི་གསང་བའི་སྙན་ཞུ། (Ngapö Ngawang Jigme’s secret petition)
Chung Tsering |
| 9:40-10:00 | The “Liberation” of Mgo log as reflected in the Memoirs of Wang Yuying 王育英
Bianca Horlemann |
| 10.00-10:30 | Discussion
Uradyn Bulag |
| 10:30-11.00 |
Tea and Coffee |
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Part II: Mobilizing Memories Chair: Robert Barnett |
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| 11.00-11:20 | Mobilizing Memory: Wenshi Ziliao and the Re-writing of Amdo’s Early-Liberation Period
Benno Weiner |
| 11:20-11:40 | Early Encounters of Tibetan Medical Doctors with Communism in Central Tibet – Biographies and Oral Histories
Theresa Hofer |
| 11:40-12:00 | A Modern Mi la ras pa in a People’s Commune: Narrating power in post-Mao Khams
Maria Turek |
| 12:00-12:30 | Discussion
Uradyn Bulag |
| 12:30– 2:00 |
Lunch |
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Part III: Amdo 1958 in Post-Cultural Revolution Tibetan Writings
Chair: Benno Weiner |
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| 2:00-2:20 | Receptions of Historical Testimony in Contemporary Amdo. The case of Joys and Sorrows of the Nagtsang Boy (Nags tshang zhi lu’i skyid sdug)
Xenia de Heering |
| 2:20-2:40 | Remembering the untold
Franz Xaver Erhard |
| 2:40-3:00 | The 1950s Sino-Tibetan Encounter in Amdo through Tibetan Short Stories in the 1980s and early 1990s
Françoise Robin |
| 3:00-3:30 | Discussion
Uradyn Bulag |
| 3:30–4:00 |
Tea and coffee |
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Part IV: Cinematic Reconstructions Chair: Benno Weiner |
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| 4:00–4:20 | Close Encounters of the Filmic Kind: Narratives of Ethnic Contact in Chinese Cinema
Robert Barnett |
| 4:20–5:00 | Screening: Selections from Films of Early Tibetan-CCP Encounters
& Discussion |