Title
Oral history interview with Ho Jie (road construction worker, official)
Abstract
Oral history interview with Ho Jie, who first worked as a road construction worker and later served as vice-chairman of the Tibetan Autonomous Region, discusses the significance of road-building in Tibet during the 1950s. He first arrived in Lhasa in 1950 and left Tibet only in 1996 to return to Sichuan.
Collection Name
Sino-Tibetan Oral History Project
Subjects
Officials and employees, retired; Road construction workers; Road construction industry; Nineteen fifties; Tibet Autonomous Region (China); Sichuan Sheng (China); Ho, Jie
Format
video recordings; oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Physical Description
2 video files (Part 1: 38 minutes; Part 2: 15 minutes)
Note
Content labeled Tape 31 and Tape 32 on original time-coded shotlist.
Note (Funding)
Digitized with funding by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
Language
English; Chinese
Library Location
C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University
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Catalog Record
7202483
Also In
Tibetan Studies Special Collections at Columbia University
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-3frz-z710