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Voices from Tibet : selected essays and reportage by Violet S. Law, Tsering Woeser, Wang Lixiong, Violet S. Law is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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, journalis

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Author

Violet S. Law, Tsering Woeser, Wang Lixiong, Violet S. Law

Publisher

Hong Kong University Press ; University of Hawaiʻi Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824839512

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Science