Tibet today / Foreign Languages Press,
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TextPublisher: Peking : Foreign Languages Press, 1974Description: 116 p. ill.Subject(s): Tibet Autonomous Region (China) | Pictorial worksDDC classification: 951.505 T553 1974 Summary: "The Tibet Autonomous Region in China's far southwest is mountanous, with rich mineral resources, rivers, lakes, lush pastures and virgin forests. It is the home of more than a million industrious and brave people of the Tibetan, Monba and other nationalities. Before liberation, Tibet's politics, economy and culture were in a state of decay under feudal serfdom. The reactionary local authorities, the monasteries and the nobility, less than 5 percent of the population, owned all land and almost all livestock, and exercised a most dark and brutal rule over the serfs and slaves who made up the other 95 percent of the population. Hard labour, crushing land taxes and numerous levies were the order of the day, while slight offences brought flogging, the cutting out of tongues, gouging out of eyes, or skinning alive. Since Tibet's peaceful liberation in 1951, and especially since the democratic reform of 1959, the region has changed. Under the leadership and with the concern of Chairman Mao Tsetung and the Chinese Communist Party, the million former serfs and slaves overthrew feudal serfdom for good and all, became the masters and transformed Tibet along socialist lines. The past dozen years have seen rapid development in tibet's industry, agriculture and livestock breeding, as well as in culture, education and health services, brining definite improvement in the people's living. in social development, Tibet has bypassed several centuries, speeding from feudal serfdom through democratic reform and into socialism. the people of Tibet are advanceing in step with China's other nationalities on the socialist road forward".
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"The Tibet Autonomous Region in China's far southwest is mountanous, with rich mineral resources, rivers, lakes, lush pastures and virgin forests. It is the home of more than a million industrious and brave people of the Tibetan, Monba and other nationalities. Before liberation, Tibet's politics, economy and culture were in a state of decay under feudal serfdom. The reactionary local authorities, the monasteries and the nobility, less than 5 percent of the population, owned all land and almost all livestock, and exercised a most dark and brutal rule over the serfs and slaves who made up the other 95 percent of the population. Hard labour, crushing land taxes and numerous levies were the order of the day, while slight offences brought flogging, the cutting out of tongues, gouging out of eyes, or skinning alive. Since Tibet's peaceful liberation in 1951, and especially since the democratic reform of 1959, the region has changed. Under the leadership and with the concern of Chairman Mao Tsetung and the Chinese Communist Party, the million former serfs and slaves overthrew feudal serfdom for good and all, became the masters and transformed Tibet along socialist lines. The past dozen years have seen rapid development in tibet's industry, agriculture and livestock breeding, as well as in culture, education and health services, brining definite improvement in the people's living. in social development, Tibet has bypassed several centuries, speeding from feudal serfdom through democratic reform and into socialism. the people of Tibet are advanceing in step with China's other nationalities on the socialist road forward".
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