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 director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program and adjunct professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University. His books include Resistance and Reform in Tibet and A Poisoned Arrow: The Secret Petition of the 10th Panchen Lama.

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