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Univ of Washington Pr
November 2009
On Sale: October 30, 2009
287 pages
ISBN: 029598953X
EAN: 9780295989532
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Non-Fiction
Through a lyrical narrative of her journey to Tibet in 2007,
activist Canyon Sam contemplates modern history from the
perspective of Tibetan women. Traveling on China's new "Sky
Train," she celebrates Tibetan New Year with the Lhasa
family whom she'd befriended decades earlier and concludes
an oral-history project with women elders. As she uncovers
stories of Tibetan women's courage, resourcefulness, and
spiritual strength in the face of loss and hardship since
the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950, and observes the
changes wrought by the controversial new rail line in the
futuristic "new Lhasa," Sam comes to embrace her own
capacity for letting go, for faith, and for acceptance. Her
glimpse of Tibet's past through the lens of the women - a
visionary educator, a freedom fighter, a gulag survivor, and
a child bride - affords her a unique perspective on the
state of Tibetan culture today - in Tibet, in exile, and in
the widening Tibetan diaspora. Gracefully connecting the
women's poignant histories to larger cultural, political,
and spiritual themes, the author comes full circle, finding
wisdom and wholeness even as she acknowledges Tibet's
irreversible changes.
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