在西方语境中,1959年前的旧西藏往往被塑造为后现代的“乌托邦”。关于旧西藏虚构的种种“美好传说”,将史实掩藏在传说背后,把真相蒙蔽在谬误之间,却让不少人匪夷所思地“陶醉”……
想让西藏成为永远停留在中世纪状态的“活化石”的一厢情愿,不能阻挡时代潮流与历史车轮。60年前,西藏历史上一场伟大、深刻、有进步意义的社会变革,具有非凡的意义和崇高的地位。
Some in the West take pre-1959 Tibet as some sort of Shangri-la, a beautiful "utopia". There are various kinds of “beautiful legends” like that which have tended to intoxicate those who don’t understand the reality.
However, any wishful thinking to take old Tibet as a “living fossil” frozen in a medieval state cannot stop the tide of the times and the turn of the wheel of history. Sixty years ago, the greatest, most profound and most progressive social changes began to take place in Tibet! And that is the truth.
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