Editor's Note |
Before the Democratic Reform in 1959, Tibet was a society of feudal serfdom featuring temporal and religious administration, a society which was darker and more cruel than the European serfdom of the Middle Ages. Groaning under the rule of the three estate-holders of the officials, nobles and upper-class monks, the Tibetans lived in deep misery. In 1956, Chen Zonglie, 24, went to work in Tibet and remained there for 25 years. With his camera, he recorded all major events that took place in the political, economic, religious and cultural fields in the period from 1956 to 1980. |
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