Oral history interview with Gongue, 2010
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- Name
- Li, Jianglin, 1956- (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Gongue, 2010
- Abstract
- Oral history interview with Gongue (a.k.a. Dkon mchog?, Konchok?) on his personal experience living in Purang in the western region of Ngari, Tibet (Tib. Mnga' ris Spu rang), from 1959-1967; including the start of the Cultural Revolution, and subsequent escape to India in 1967. Describes how young and healthy men and women were selected to work on road construction in Tibet after the Chinese occupa tion.
- Collection Name
- Jianglin Li Interviews with Tibetan Exiles
- Subjects
- Refugees, Tibetan; Ngari Diqu (China)
- Format
- video recordings; oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- September 4, 2010
- Physical Description
- 1 video file (17 minutes)
- Note
- Interviewed by Jianglin Li at Settlement Number 3 in Mundgod, India, on September 4, 2010.
- Note (Language)
- Interview conducted in Tibetan through an interpreter, with some Chinese summary translations for the interviewer.
- Note (Biographical)
- Gongue is a Tibetan man born circa 1948 in Spu-rang (Purang), Tbet.
- Note (Funding)
- Digitized with funding by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
- Language
- Tibetan; Chinese
- Library Location
- C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 8672337
- Also In
- Tibetan Studies Special Collections at Columbia University
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-gzt2-f925