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HarperPress, Australia, Date: 2008. Trade Paperback. Good Condition. `A Year in Tibet' follows the author as she lives for eighteen months in a remote village in Tibet.Sun Shuyun grew up in China and has always been fascinated by Tibet and 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, or 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. This is a book with a difference: unusually, a realistic Chinese voice is calling for better understanding of a people who try to carve out the path they desire, often against the odds, often with joy and hope. Vivid, fascinating and visually brilliant, a Year in Tibet provides a rare insight into a Tibetan community under the pressure of change: from centuries of isolation through a difficult past to an uncertain present. 242 pages. Light tanning to page edges. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 ...

ISBN10: 0007288794, ISBN13: 9780007288793, [publisher: HarperCollins, London] Softcover First Edition Very Good condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 242 pages. A modern Chinese perspective on Tibet.
[Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia] [Publication Year: 2008]
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HarperPress, Australia, Date: 2008. Trade Paperback. Very Good Condition. `A Year in Tibet' follows the author as she lives for eighteen months in a remote village in Tibet.Sun Shuyun grew up in China and has always been fascinated by Tibet and 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, or 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. This is a book with a difference: unusually, a realistic Chinese voice is calling for better understanding of a people who try to carve out the path they desire, often against the odds, often with joy and hope. Vivid, fascinating and visually brilliant, a Year in Tibet provides a rare insight into a Tibetan community under the pressure of change: from centuries of isolation through a difficult past to an uncertain present. 242 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Travel ...

ISBN10: 0007288794, ISBN13: 9780007288793, [publisher: HarperPress, Australia] Softcover `A Year in Tibet' follows the author as she lives for eighteen months in a remote village in Tibet.Sun Shuyun grew up in China and has always been fascinated by Tibet and 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, or 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. This is a book with a difference: unusually, a realistic Chinese voice is calling for better understanding of a people who try to carve out the path they desire, often against the odds, often with joy and hope. Vivid, fascinating and visually brilliant, a Year in Tibet provides a rare insight into a Tibetan community under the pressure of change: from centuries of isolation through a difficult past to an uncertain present. 242 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilo ...
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London: HarperCollins, Date: 2008. Soft cover. NF. Remainder mark.. 6x0x9. 2008. HarperCollins ISBN 0007288794 9780007288793 [CA]

Harper Press, Date: 2008. Later Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 256 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Sociology & Culture; China; Politics & Government. ISBN: 0007288794. ISBN/EAN: 9780007288793. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: RB14525. . 9780007288793 2008. Harper Press ISBN 0007288794 9780007288793 [AU]

ISBN10: 0007288794, ISBN13: 9780007288793, [publisher: HarperPress] Softcover Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
[Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2008]
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