Format:
Online-Ressource (265 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780231136815
Series Statement:
Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
Content:
There are many Lhasas. One is a grid of uniform boulevards lined with plush hotels, all-night bars, and blue-glass-fronted offices. Another is a warren of alleyways that surround a seventh-century temple built to pin down a supine demoness. A web of Stalinist, rectangular blocks houses the new nomenklatura. Crumbling mansions, once home to noble ministers, famous lovers, nationalist spies, and covert revolutionaries, now serve as shopping malls and faux-antique hotels. Each embodiment of the city partakes of the others' memories, whispered across time and along the city streets.In this imagi
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Description based upon print version of record
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CONTENTS; PREFACE; A NOTE ON HISTORY; A NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREAMBLE; 1THE UNITARY VIEW; 2. FOREIGN VISITORS, OSCILLATIONS, AND EXTREMES; 3. THE SQUARE VIEW AND THE OUT STRETCHED DEMONESS; 4. THE CITY, THE CIRCLE; 5. MONUMENTAL STATEMENTS AND STREET PLANS; 6. FROM CONCRETE TO BLUE GLASS; 7. THE NEW FLAMBOYANCE AND THE TIBETAN PALM TREE; 8. MESTIZO: TWO NARRATIVES CONVERGE; 9 .THE MULTILAYERED STREETS; NOTES; GLOSSARY; INDEX;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231510110
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231136815
Additional Edition:
Print version Lhasa : Streets with Memories
Language:
English
Keywords:
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