Interview with four Lhasa Street Committee members, 2000
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- Title
- Interview with four Lhasa Street Committee members, 2000
- Abstract
- Interview with four members of a Lhasa street committee (Ch. Ju min wei yuan hui), in particular, a detailed discussion with one member about their responsibilities in resolving conflicts, ensuring the welfare and livelihood of community members, and on the relative numbers of temporary workers, religious policy, etc. Also discusses briefly the formation of the precursor to the local street committ ee in 1959, and the more formal Street Committee in 1965. Also discusses 1987 riots, and policy vis a vis the Dalai Lama. Last 30 minutes of tape is footage of street scenes in Lhasa, Barkhor, Jokhang, and more rural outskirts.
- Collection Name
- Sino-Tibetan Oral History Project
- Subjects
- Citizens' associations; Tibetans; Social conditions; Lhasa (China); Zhongguo gong chan dang
- Format
- video recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 2000
- Physical Description
- 2 video files (Part 1: 55 minutes; Part 2: 63 minutes)
- Note
- Interview ends at 1 hour, 25 minutes
- Content labeled Tape 04 on original time-coded shotlist.
- Note (Language)
- Interview in Tibetan, with English translation; some Chinese terms and comments.
- Note (Funding)
- Digitized with funding by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
- Language
- English; Tibetan; Chinese
- Library Location
- C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 7202483
- Also In
- Tibetan Studies Special Collections at Columbia University
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-rsjw-hq56