Lhasa: Streets with Memories

Robert Barnett

Paper, 244 pages, 20 halftones
ISBN: 978-0-231-13681-5
$19.50 / £13.50

March, 2006
Cloth, 244 pages, 20 halftones
ISBN: 978-0-231-13680-8
$26.50 / £18.50

Preface

A Note on History

A Note on Terminology

Acknowledgments

Preamble

1. The Unitary View

2. Foreign Visitors, Oscillations, and Extremes

3. The Square View and the Outstretched 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

9. The Multilayered Streets

Notes

Glossary

Index

Related Subjects

• Asian History
• East Asian Studies

Series

• Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture

About the Author

Robert Barnett is lecturer in modern Tibetan studies at Columbia University and a former teacher at Tibet University. He is the editor or author of Resistance and Reform in Tibet; A Poisoned Arrow: The Secret Petition of the 10th Panchen Lama; and other works. He has also worked as a journalist for the BBC, the South China Morning Post, the Independent, and other publications.

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