Natáčení v Tibetu po povstání v roce 1959 : nově nalezené záběry
| Title in English | After-uprising Shooting in Tibet 1959: New Unknown Footage |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Requested lectures |
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| Description | Jan Vinař's book Tibet - a land where people catch up with the whole millennium in a single leap is a reportage by a Czech journalist who visited Tibet just after the uprising and the escape of the 14th Dalai Lama to Indian exile in March 1959. It presents a testimony telling of the beginnings of China's ideological civilizing project on the "roof of the world" and of the building enthusiasm of leftist intellectuals from both the Eastern and Western blocs at the time. As we now know, Tibet - even with the help of the fraternal masses of the Chinese people, the Communist Party of China and the Chinese People's Liberation Army - did not catch up with the millennium in one leap. The 'great leap' that the People's Republic of China took under Mao's leadership in that fateful year of 1959 ended in a great fiasco and a tragic famine in which tens of millions of people died. Jan Vinař's belief in a fairer and better society eventually died out completely, and he left Czechoslovakia in 1968 after returning from Tibet. The lecture included a screening of unique, previously unknown footage from Tibet in 1959. |
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