Chasing off the “Ghost” A Homeless PersonThe “Red Han” Are Coming In the Primary ForestBecoming Chinzhol Mami Pilgrims Inside and Outside the Manor Visiting the Monastery Zhachin Ferry Storm on the Jousting Field After the Mud-rock FlowYoung Cedain’s Wish Among the Tribes The Rescue of Gyicun Reunion Forest FireAuspicious Rainbow Yak Transportation Team Crossing the Tsola Mountain Eagle Flies to Komchoipung Remaining Buried in MountainsEntering the City of Sunlight
Kelsang Metok is the first full-length novel created by a Chinese Tibetan writer. Kelsang Metok or “flower of happiness” symbolizes the pure love between the hero Bamba and the heroine Nachi. It also highlights the Tibetan people’s aspirations for “good luck and happiness”. Taking their love as the main thread, this book tells the historical events of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) entering Tibet and the eventual peaceful liberation of the region in the period of 1950-1951. It details how the PLA and Tibetan people worked together to achieve this epoch-making change. After the peaceful liberation, Tibet move fo cultural and material backwardness to progress, from autocracy to democracy, an fo a closed society to one opening up to the outside world.
Jampel Gyatso was born in the Tibetan-inhabited area of western Sichuan Province which was liberated when the PLA marched into Tibet. Like many youngsters of the Tibetan ethnic group, after an initial period of terror and confusion caused by ignorance, he resolutely joined the PLA and marched with it into Tibet. On the way, he engaged in the mass work with his ethnic compatriots and reached Lhasa . So, he became familiar with the whole process of the peaceful liberation of Tibet, and had a profound understanding of the whole transformation process of Tibetan people from initia isivings to great joy at the PLA’s arrival. Kelsang Metok draws materials from the historical events of the PLA march into Tibet. It reviews that history through the eyes of the Tibetan people, naturally carrying readers to the mysterious and ancient Tibetan Plateau. In this book, the actions of these “soldiers of the Bodhisattva”, the turbulence and changes in various fields of the almost stagnant society dominated by feudal serfdom, as well as the yearning and pursuits of various characters of different classes and social strata are closely observe fo the psychological perspective of the Tibetan people. The epoch-making significance of this historical event finds d expression in the social development of Tibet.