Książka Sky Train Canyon Sam

Sky Train

Tibetan Women on the Edge of History

Autor: Canyon Sam
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Miękka
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy w małych ilościach
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Through a lyrical narrative of her journey to Tibet in 2007, Tibet activist Canyon Sam contemplates...

Informacje o książce

Autor
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Miękka
Data wydania
2009
strony
278
EAN
9780295989532
ISBN
029598953X
Enbook ID
04874870
Waga
412
Wymiary
155 x 229 x 19

Pełny opis

Through a lyrical narrative of her journey to Tibet in 2007, Tibet 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 the 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. Canyon Sam is a San Francisco writer, performance artist, and Tibet activist. Her one-woman show "The Dissident" was critically acclaimed in the "Village Voice" and the "Boston Globe". This is her first book.

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