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My Tibetan childhood : when ice shattered stone / Naktsang Nulo ; translation provided by Angus Cargill and Sonam Lhamo ; edited and abridged by Angus Cargill ; with a foreword by the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, a foreword by Ralph Litzinger, and an introduction by Robert Barnett
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Naktsang Nulo.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Naktsang Nulo.
- Children--China--Tibet Autonomous Region--Biography.
- Children.
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--History--1951-.
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>A bestseller in Tibet until it was banned by China, this moving memoir chronicles Naktsang Nulo's childhood in Tibet's Amdo region during the uprising against the Chinese invasion of the 1950s.</div>
- Contents:
- Prelude: the charnel ground
- Born on the wide Tibetan grasslands
- A childhood with herdsmen, bandits, and monks
- By yak caravan to the holy city of Lhasa
- Witness to massacre on our tragic journey through desolate places
- Torture and imprisonment, starvation and survival
- Appendix: guide to abridgment and chapter changes from original.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822357261
- 0822357267
- 9780822376385
- 0822376385
- OCLC:
- 1144917343
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