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Lhasa: Streets with Memories
Robert Barnett
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Description for Lhasa: Streets with Memories
Hardback. Series: Asia Perspectives: History, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 244 pages, Halftones: 20,. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; HBJF; WTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
There are many Lhasas. One is a grid of uniform boulevards lined with plush hotels, all-night bars, and blue-glass-fronted offices. Another is a warren of alleyways that surround a seventh-century temple built to pin down a supine demoness. A web of Stalinist, rectangular blocks houses the new nomenklatura. Crumbling mansions, once home to noble ministers, famous lovers, nationalist spies, and covert revolutionaries, now serve as shopping malls and faux-antique hotels. Each embodiment of the city partakes of the others' memories, whispered across time and along the city streets. In this imaginative new work, Robert Barnett offers a powerful and ... Read more
There are many Lhasas. One is a grid of uniform boulevards lined with plush hotels, all-night bars, and blue-glass-fronted offices. Another is a warren of alleyways that surround a seventh-century temple built to pin down a supine demoness. A web of Stalinist, rectangular blocks houses the new nomenklatura. Crumbling mansions, once home to noble ministers, famous lovers, nationalist spies, and covert revolutionaries, now serve as shopping malls and faux-antique hotels. Each embodiment of the city partakes of the others' memories, whispered across time and along the city streets. In this imaginative new work, Robert Barnett offers a powerful and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Series
Asia Perspectives: History, Society and Culture
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231136808
SKU
V9780231136808
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About Robert Barnett
Robert Barnett is director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program and adjunct professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University. His books include Resistance and Reform in Tibet and A Poisoned Arrow: The Secret Petition of the 10th Panchen Lama.
Reviews for Lhasa: Streets with Memories
Barnett's book is a wonderful read... This is a book that will transfix readers. Booklist [A] brilliant rumination on Tibet's capital. Tricycle Most readers of this fascinating book will finish reading it feeling that they truly know the Tibetan City.
Lucian Pye Foreign Affairs [Barnett] emerges in these pages as a perceptive and sympathetic observer of a city that ... Read more
Lucian Pye Foreign Affairs [Barnett] emerges in these pages as a perceptive and sympathetic observer of a city that ... Read more