A Book(s) Review - Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town Book by Barbara Demick & The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier Book by Benno Weiner

In The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier publisher: Cornell University Press, 15 Jun 2020 , Benno Weiner provides the first in-depth study of an ethnic minority region during the first decade of the People's Republic of China: the Amdo region in the Sino-Tibetan borderland. Employing previously inaccessible local archives as well as other rare primary sources, he demonstrates that the Communist Party's goal in 1950s Amdo was not just state-building, but also nation-building. Such an objective required the construction of narratives and policies capable of convincing Tibetans of their membership in a wider political community.