Tears of Blood: A Cry for Tibet

by Mary Craig and Mary A. Craig

Book Overview

Since 1959, when China claimed power over this tiny mountain nation, more than one million Tibetans are believed to have perished by starvation, execution, imprisonment, and abortive uprisings. Many... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158243025X
• ISBN13: 9781582430256
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

If you do know a good bit about the struggle and even if you don't

This book is great and by great, I mean that it's very well-written, loaded with info and gives human voices and faces to the struggle from Tibetans of all classes. It's not easy to read due to the injustices but the writer has made it easy for anyone to comprehend. I have previously known a bit of the struggle from some research, documentaries, etc. I still found a great deal of information in the book. Again, a person need not be well-versed on the subject due to the east of the writing. It DOES put a very human face to the struggle and, should you choose to read this book, you will feel the injustice of this and the frustration with everyone's going along with China and making Tibet stand alone against such a tide of blood.

WOW, what sadness.

I never heard of the term "thamzing", but this book is full of primary sources or accounts of public torture and Chinese communist lies. I cried several times reading this book due to the horrible accounts. There is a real cry, by many of the tortured... why do so many people not believe them? Progress, by no means is worth any human loss of life.

Exceptional book with endless information on Tibet's losses.

I knew VERY LITTLE about what happened to Tibet and the Dalai Lama, until this book. It's a very good read....Please consider buying it and learning about the abuse of human rights in other parts of the world.

Authoritative and concise! Compassionate and moving!

Mary Craig's Tears of Blood is a masterful account of a history long overlooked and disregarded by the international community, the history of 20th century China's brutal invasion and occupation of Tibet. Ms. Craig has gone even further than most to support the struggles of the Tibetan people, refuting point by point the standard line of the Chinese government, "Tibet has always been a part of China." A must read for anyone even remotely interested in human rights or Tibetan independence.

The truth about Tibet and China

This is a must read book. As the west invites the China that Mao created to share in the wealth and the market place it is ever more important to understand the brutality and ruthlessness of the current Chineese government. This book presents a clear and well documented look at the atrocities that have been inflicted on the Tibeten People in the name of official Chineese "liberation". 1.5 million bodies or 1/5 of the tibetan population from killings, starvation and brutal torture are all spelled out. Most of the dead are buddists and therefore do not believe in a response by violence.If you like your facts in glossed over versions check out the movies 7 years in Tibet, or Little Budda or the best of the bunch, Kun Dun. For an well written and easy read of the whole horrible truth of a genocide that picks up where Hitler left off.This terrible situations continues to this day and this book is a must read. As a nation we have to understand the monster that is the truth of the Chinnese Government and this book tells it all. You'll read this and then run to your nearest word processor to write your congressman and demand that before we allow China any more of the fruits of the free and capitalist system they have to change their stance on respect for human rights. This country has not only attempted to distroy a people but they are trying to human spirit in Tibet.Want more, run a search on Tibet and take a visit to the official web site of the Tibetan Government In Exile. But what ever you do do not ignore this book.