Love Song of the Foreign Liberator: Teaching Tibetan History to American Students in the PRC
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Love Song of the Foreign Liberator: Teaching Tibetan History to American Students in the PRC
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Love Song of the Foreign Liberator: Teaching Tibetan History to American Students in the PRC

Abstract

This article takes as its point of departure Love Song of Kangding (康定情歌), a romantic film from fall 2010 which propagandizes the positive consequences of the liberation of Tibetan cultural areas by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in 1950-51.  The article describes how the film fit into a semester-long course on contemporary Tibet taught to American students in Chengdu, Sichuan, and the particular sensitivities and difficulties relating to learning about Tibetan history in China.    

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Tibet, movie, Kangding, propaganda, serf

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Cathcart, A., 2012. Love Song of the Foreign Liberator: Teaching Tibetan History to American Students in the PRC. ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, 19(2), pp.42–46. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/ane.28

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Adam Cathcart (Pacific Lutheran University)

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Pages 42-46
Published on 2012-05-30

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