When Serfs Stood Up In Tibet. Report by Anna Louise Strong [Inscribed to Leo Huberman]
- SIGNED
- [Peking: by the Author, 1960]
[Peking: by the Author, 1960]. First Edition. One of an unspecified number of copies in the "Author's Edition." Inscribed on front endpaper: "No. 43 of Author's Edition / for Leo Huberman 64 Barrow St, New York / Greetings from Peking," signed by Strong with her Peking address, dated June 1960 (a month after publication). 12mo. Pictorial paper wrappers; 326pp; folding map. Photographic illustrations by the author. Mild external soil and wear; still a tight, Very Good or better copy.
Strong's account of the 1959 Tibet Uprising, which resulted in the exile of the Dalai Lama and the end of theocratic rule in Tibet, along with the system of feudal serfdom that had accompanied it. Strong's interpretation is, predictably, stridently pro-China, casting the Communists as liberators and the deposed theocracy as both repressive and anachronistic – an interpretation distinctly non-aligned with official U.S. policy, and a debate that continues to rage to this day. This copy inscribed to the American socialist economist, labor activist and journalist Leo Huberman (1903-1968), whose own controversial report on the Cuban Revolution would be published the same year (Cuba: Anatomy of A Revolution; 1960). A compelling association copy of a somewhat uncommon title - in an "Author's Edition" we've never previously encountered and didn't know existed.
Strong's account of the 1959 Tibet Uprising, which resulted in the exile of the Dalai Lama and the end of theocratic rule in Tibet, along with the system of feudal serfdom that had accompanied it. Strong's interpretation is, predictably, stridently pro-China, casting the Communists as liberators and the deposed theocracy as both repressive and anachronistic – an interpretation distinctly non-aligned with official U.S. policy, and a debate that continues to rage to this day. This copy inscribed to the American socialist economist, labor activist and journalist Leo Huberman (1903-1968), whose own controversial report on the Cuban Revolution would be published the same year (Cuba: Anatomy of A Revolution; 1960). A compelling association copy of a somewhat uncommon title - in an "Author's Edition" we've never previously encountered and didn't know existed.