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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woeser, Tsering, Author.

Contributor:

Law, Violet S.

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

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

Tibet Autonomous Region (China).

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (131 p.)

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2014]

Summary:

Tsering Woeser and Wang Lixiong are widely regarded as the most eloquent, 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 is a collection of essays and reportage in translation that captures the many facets of an unprecedented sea change wreaked by a rising China upon a scar

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Contains:

Weise, 1966- Works. Selections. English.

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

ISBN:

9789888268191

9888268198

9789888268177

9888268171

OCLC:

862613801