Voices from Tibet / selected essays and reportage by Tsering Woeser and Wang Lixiong ; edited and translated by Violet Law.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Law, Violet S., editor of compilation, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Civilization--20th century.

Tibet Autonomous Region (China).

Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Politics and government--1951-.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 81 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014.

Summary:

Tsering Woeser and Wang Lixiong are widely regarded as the most lucid, insightful writers on contemporary Tibet. Their reportage on the economic exploitation, environmental degradation, cultural destruction and political subjugation that plague the increasingly Han Chinese-dominated Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) is as powerful as it is profound, ardent and analytical in equal measure, and not in the least bit ideological. Voices from Tibet assembles essays and reportage in translation that capture many facets of the upheavals wrought by a rising China upon a sacred land and its pious people. With the TAR in a virtual lockdown after the 2008 unrest, this book sheds important light on the simmering frustrations that touched off the unrest and Beijing's relentless control tactics in its wake. The authors also interrogate long-standing assumptions about the Tibetans' political future. Woeser's and Wang's writings represent a rare Chinese view sympathetic to Tibetan causes. Their powerful testimony should resonate in many places confronting threats of cultural subjugation and economic domination by an external power. Having discovered her Tibetan heritage as a young adult, journalist-poet Tsering Woeser (唯色) now occupies a unique position as chronicler of modern Tibetan memory. Her writings are widely regarded as the voice of Tibet. Woeser received the Prince Claus Prize in 2011 for her compelling blend of literary quality and political reportage, as well as the International Women of Courage award by the US Department of State in 2013. World-renowned as a most vocal, vigilant observer of Chinese-Tibetan relations and ethnic minorities issues within China, Wang Lixiong (王力雄) was recognized with the Freedom of Expression Award from the Independent Chinese PEN Association. Wang's works are widely considered some of the most authoritative and balanced on Tibetan issues by a native Chinese writer.

Contents:

Freedom for Chinese, autonomy for Tibetans

Where are Tibetans in the Chinese dream

Beijing Olympics: divided world, divided dream

The Qinghai-Tibetan railway conscripted

The next big one

The fall of Lhasa

Let go of the Dalai Lama

Tibetans are ruined by hope

From self-immolation to self-rule

Winners and losers under Tibet's capitalism

Public square or propaganda?

The pernicious fungus economy

The "nineteenth army"

Tibetan women marry Han Chinese as a way out

Merchants of fake culture

Only state-sanctioned tour guides need apply

Railroad to perdition

Riding the train to Lhasa

Cassock vs. police uniform

Framing monks as terrorists

The world's youngest political prisoner

Why Tibetans flee to India?

Helicopters over stupas

Stampede in Jokhang

Barkor at nightfall

Highway robbery in holy places

Siphoning off Tibetan water

Herders are strangers on their land

Every inch of land is sacred

Betting on Tibetan land

How fur becomes Tibetan fashion

Disappearing Lhasa

Regret in a half-century

Scrapping Tibetan lessons for stability

Must children trade roots for books?

Ye all celebrate Chinese festivals

Official ban a helpful reminder

Ringing in the Tibetan new year

Contemporary artists sound off

Resistance to sell out

What remains of Tibet?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Weise, 1966- Works. Selections. English.

Wang, Lixiong, 1953- Works. Selections. English.

ISBN:

9780824840082

0824840089

9780824839512

082483951X

OCLC:

857717749