ANTHROPOLOGY / BUDDHISM / ASIAN STUDIES Pie Fiodence of Liberation provides a groundbreaking account of the highly contested proeess through which the Tibetan Buddhist region of Labrang became incorporated into the People's Republic of China. Drawing from thirteen years of archival research and fieldwork in and around the famous Geluk-sect Tibetan Buddhist monastery, Charlene Makley situates the process of incorporation in the violent upheavals of Maoist socialist Iransformation that took place from 1950 through the 1970s and in the transition to globalization by means of Deng Xiaoping's capitalist market reforms of the 1980s and 1990s. Her innovative study provides a sensitive examination of many different Tibetan voices and opens a new perspective on Sino-Tibetan relations in this important frontier region. "The Violence of Liberation is an innovative and timely evaluation of Tibetan religious revival and changing gender ideals and practices in post-Mao China- one of the first ethnographies based on extensive research in a Tibetan community in China since the reopening in the 1980s. Makley has provided a powerful and nuanced reading of gendered Tibetan and Chinese cultural orders."

ISBN: 9780520250604