Oral history interview with Ama Drolkar (Labrang), 2010
Oral history with Tibetan refugee Ama Drolkar (Tib. Sgrol dkar, also Zhuoga or Zongga) from Labrang, Gansu Province; discusses arrival of Chinese troops in Labrang when she was 17 years old, Democratic Reforms, her move to Lhasa 3-4 years later, events in Lhasa in 1959. In Part 2, she discusses the Labrang leader Aba Alo and his trip to Beijing, as well as life in exile, her experience in a drama troop started by Gungthang Tsultrim (Gung thang Tshul krims) in Dehradun, and her visit back to Tibet in 1987.
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tibetan
Tibetan Studies Special Collections at Columbia University
Jianglin Li Interviews with Tibetan Exiles
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Li, Jianglin, 1956-
Interviewer
Interviews
Tibetan
Chinese
NNC-EA
Special Collections
History
Women, Tibetan
Uprising of 1959 (Tibet Autonomous Region, China)
Refugees, Tibetan
A-ma Sgrol-dkar
Xiahe Xian (China)
Lhasa (China)
India
Interviewed by Jianglin Li at Dhondrupling Tibetan Refugee Settlement, Dehradun , India on October 21, 2010.
Interview conducted in Tibetan through an interpreter, with Chinese summary translations for the interviewer.
Ama Drolkar (Tib. Sgrol dkar, also Zongga) was born in Labrang (Bla-brang). When she relocated to Lhasa, her house was close to the Jokhang Temple, and she was thus a firsthand witness at the center of the fighting in March 1959 in Lhasa.
Digitized with funding by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
moving image
2010-10-21
October 21, 2010
video recordings
oral histories
2 video files (Part 1: 36 minutes; Part 2: 32 minutes)
reformatted digital
eng
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