Panel 24: Post-Revolutionary Narratives: or, how to Retell Early Tibetan Encounters with the Chinese Communists

 

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

Part I: Histories of Early Encounters

Chair: Françoise Robin

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 

Part II: Mobilizing Memories

Chair: Robert Barnett

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

Part III: Amdo 1958 in Post-Cultural Revolution Tibetan Writings

 

Chair: Benno Weiner

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

 

Part IV: Cinematic Reconstructions

Chair: Benno Weiner

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