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  • The Tibetan History Reader

    Edited by Gray Tuttle, Kurtis Schaeffer ...
    Covering the social, cultural, and political development of Tibet from the seventh century to the modern period, this resource reproduces essential, hard-to-find essays from the past fifty years of Tibetan studies, along with several new contributions. Beginning with Tibet's emergence as a regional power and concluding with its profound contemporary transformations, the collection is both a ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China

    by Gray Tuttle ...
    Over the past century and with varying degrees of success, China has tried to integrate Tibet into the modern Chinese nation-state. In this groundbreaking work, Gray Tuttle reveals the surprising role Buddhism and Buddhist leaders played in the development of the modern Chinese state and in fostering relations between Tibet and China from the Republican period (1912-1949) to the early years of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Sources of Tibetan Tradition

    Edited by Matthew T. Kapstein, Gray Tuttle, Kurtis Schaeffer ...
    Series series Introduction to Asian Civilizations
    The most comprehensive collection of Tibetan works in a Western language, this volume illuminates the complex historical, intellectual, and social development of Tibetan civilization from its earliest beginnings to the modern period. Including more than 180 representative writings, Sources of Tibetan Tradition spans Tibet's vast geography and long history, presenting for the first time a diversity ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang

    Unrest in China's West

    Edited by Ben Hillman, Gray Tuttle ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    Despite more than a decade of rapid economic development, rising living standards, and large-scale improvements in infrastructure and services, China's western borderlands are awash in a wave of ethnic unrest not seen since the 1950s. Through on-the-ground interviews and firsthand observations, the international experts in this volume create an invaluable record of the conflicts and protests as ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Old Stories Retold

    Narrative and Vanishing Pasts in Modern China

    by Andrew G. Stuckey ...
    Old Stories Retold explores the ways modern Chinese narratives dramatize and embody the historical sense that links them to the past and to the Chinese literary tradition. Largely guided by Walter Benjamin's discussions of history, G. Andrew Stuckey looks at the ways Chinese narrative engages a historical process that pieces together fragments of the past into new configurations to better serve ... Read more

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  • My Tibetan Childhood

    When Ice Shattered Stone

    by Naktsang Nulo ...
    Translated by Angus Cargill, Sonam Lhamo ...
    In My Tibetan Chldhood, Naktsang Nulo recalls his life in Tibet's Amdo region during the 1950s. From the perspective of himself at age ten, he describes his upbringing as a nomad on Tibet's eastern plateau. He depicts pilgrimages to monasteries, including a 1500-mile horseback expedition his family made to and from Lhasa. A year or so later, they attempted that same journey as they fled from ... Read more

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  • No Time to Lose

    A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva

    by Pema Chodron ...
    The beloved Buddhist nun and bestselling author of When Things Fall Apart examines Shantideva’s The Way of the Bodhisattva, sharing “her ever-approachable and pithy instructions for daily life” for readers of all backgrounds (Parabola)Over the years, Pema Chödrön's books have offered readers an exciting new way of living: developing fearlessness, generosity, and compassion in all aspects of their ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era

    Reassessing Collective Leadership

    by Cheng Li ...
    Series series Geopolitics in the 21st Century
    Chinese politics are at a crossroads as President Xi Jinping amasses personal power and tests the constraints of collective leadership.In the years since he became general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, Xi Jinping has surprised many people in China and around the world with his bold anti-corruption campaign and his aggressive consolidation of power.Given these new developments, ... Read more

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  • The Terra Cotta Army

    China's First Emperor and the Birth of a Nation

    by John Man ...
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  • The Last Days of Old Beijing

    Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed

    by Michael Meyer ...
    Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with ... Read more

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