| Description |
242 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
1. The Shaman, The Gun and Mao's Red Book -- 2. Sky Burial -- 3. Journey to the Next Life -- 4. The Learning Curve -- 5. Cold Feeling -- 6. I'm Getting Married? -- 7. One Wife, Three Husbands -- 8. The Woman, the Goat and the Chang -- 9. Three Million Prayers -- 10. Crime Is Its Own Punishment -- 11. Keeping the Faith |
| Summary |
"Sun Shuyun grew up in China and has always been fascinated by Tibet and by Buddhism, Now, accompanied by a television crew of Chinese and Tibetans, she spent a year in a remote town in the Tibetan mountain area and recorded what life is like for the people there." "After half a century of Communist rule, Gyantse, once celebrated by early twentieth-century British explorers, has like the rest of Tibet seen the return of religion and much of the traditional way of life - but for how long? Sun Shuyun explores the intimate details of the lives of a shaman and his family, of monks, a village doctor, a Party worker, a hotel manager, and a rickshaw driver. Through them she captures the tensions between Chinese and Tibetans, between an ancient and an alien culture, faith and science, continuity and modernisation."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
TV tie-in |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-229) and index |
| Subject |
Shuyun, Sun -- Homes and haunts -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
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Sun, Shuyun, 1963- -- Homes and haunts -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
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Sun, Shuyun -- Homes and haunts -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
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Sun, Shuyun -- Travel -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
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Tibetans -- Ethnic identity.
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| SUBJECT |
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79100917 -- Ethnic relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005646
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Tibet Autonomous Region (China) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79100917 -- Social conditions -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008643
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Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117270 -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012478
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| LC no. |
2009367249 |
| ISBN |
0007265115 (hbk.) |
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9780007265114 (hbk.) |
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