On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier
- ISBN-10
- 0295984813
- ISBN-13
- 9780295984810
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 276
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Authors
- Ashild Kolas, Monika P Thowsen
Description
The state of Tibetan culture within contemporary China is a highly politicized topic on which reliable information is rare. Based on fieldwork and interviews conducted between 1998 and 2000 in China's Tibetan Autonomous Prefectures, this book investigates the present conditions of Tibetan cultural life and cultural expression.
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