From The Serfs To Farmers:the "Identity Revolution" In The Land Reform In Tibet

Tibet in the past society, long-standing Lord and serf, two great classes perspective these two class interaction history, it is not difficult to draw, Lord manor economy on the basis of land tenure and serf system determines the old Tibetan society, is essentially composed of lords class and class identity symbol ensemble. Began in March 1959, however, the"land reform" (collectively "democratic reform") for the privilege of old Tibet identity system sounded the death knell. It will Tibet history and fate of the two, traditional social level privilege was overthrown, the serfs for personal freedom, share of land and livestock, and at that time from the feudal serfdom society "roll over" into the new democratic society. So, the key nodes in Tibetan history, serfs and the identity of the lords of the revolutionary changes in how? As to the identity of the revolution for Tibet what impact on society? Take this question, in this paper, the author entered the field of Tibet, has a deep history of the village for the case study:namely further maizhokunggar county, Lhasa to plunge into the snow country, search for the experienced old nest village land reform of the old man (village old people are almost all the difference of the "led to serfowner branch officers of serfs", some of them are in those days went to"no land or personal freedom, from generation to generation is a slave", some, or all the land reform activist), and their broad and interview the history of the land reform. Through nine old nest village old man’s oral history investigation, represent the history of the original, trying to find out about the underlying land serfs class and upper class rules of the game between the Lord and identity reengineering process, and to realize land reform as the key points for strong Tibetan social and historical formative influence.