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Voices from Tibet: Selected Essays and Reportage Kindle Edition

by Tsering Woeser (Author), Lixiong Wang (Author), Violet Law (Translator) Format: Kindle Edition
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Tsering Woeser and Wang Lixiong are widely regarded as the most eloquent, insightful writers on contemporary Tibet. Their reportage on the economic exploitation, environmental degradation, cultural destruction and political subjugation that plague the increasingly Han Chinese-dominated Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) is as powerful as it is profound, ardent and analytical in equal measure, and not in the least bit ideological. Voices from Tibet is a collection of essays and reportage in translation that captures the many facets of an unprecedented sea change wreaked by a rising China upon a scared land and its defenseless people. With the TAR in a virtual lockdown after the 2008 unrest, this book sheds important light on the simmering frustrations that touched off the unrest and Beijing’s stability über alles control tactics in its wake. The authors also interrogate longstanding assumptions about Tibetans’ political future. Woeser’s and Wang’s writings represent a rare Chinese view sympathetic to Tibetan causes, one that should resonate in many places confronting threats of cultural subjugation and economic domination by a non-indigenous power.
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<&ldquo>Violet S. Law's fluid translations of Woeser and Wang Lixiong's powerful and deeply humane writings, combined with Robert Barnett's insightful and elegantly crafted introduction, make for an extraordinarily effective volume. Voices from Tibet is a must-read for anyone eager to learn more about the Tibetan people and their struggles.<&rdquo>
-Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of China in the 21st Century

<&ldquo>These essays and dispatches provide an eloquent and unfiltered glimpse into how the ruling Communist Party has transformed the Tibetan plateau through decades of heavy-handed policies.<&rdquo>
-Andrew Jacobs, Beijing correspondent for The New York Times --word

About the Author

Having discovered her Tibetan heritage as a young adult, Tsering Woeser now occupies a unique position as chronicler of modern Tibetan memory. In 2011 she was awarded the Prince Claus Prize and the International Women of Courage Award by the U.S. Department of State.

Wang Lixiong is a renowned observer of Chinese-Tibetan relations and ethnic minorities issues within China and has been recognized with the Freedom of Expression Award from the Independent Chinese PEN Association.

Violet Law is an American translator of Chinese non-fiction.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00GO43QSE
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hong Kong University Press; 1st edition (November 1, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 1, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 12458 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 124 pages
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4.0 out of 5 stars Woeser's writings in English give valuable insights into life in ...
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Woeser's writings in English give valuable insights into life in Tibet today through eyes and heart of a Tibetan. An important book by a courageous woman who has suffered for her convictions.
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Charles S. Fisher
4.0 out of 5 stars A conundrum
Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2014
This book touches on many sensitive issues. Tibet in its own right is a tragedy. In the context of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Palestine and else where its problems seem not much greater than what the Chinese people have suffered since the Revolution. It is really hard to get a picture of post 1950 Tibet. I read this book in expectation of getting multiple perspectives on those events. And it does indeed give glimpses in essays by the authors. But there is little to put those essays into a larger perspective. The thing that is clear is that Chinese bias puts Tibetans in a great disadvantage with respect to the changes going on there. They neither have much influence in the direction of development nor opportunity to participate in it. But lots of things are not clear. There are several anecdotal essays indicating Tibetans are slothful, even drunken when it comes to choosing whether to engage in economic development. They seem to prefer the casual profits of collecting Cordyceps (caterpillar mushroom used medicinally) and then dissipating rather than actively competing with Chinese entrepreneurs. But this is an episode rather than a bigger picture.

The authors say that Tibet is being overwhelmed by Chinese but the latter still make up only one sixth of the population. And the whole issue of immigration in the world is confusing. People argue for open borders but few really parse the consequences of them. Send home the Mexicans in the US, the Chinese in Indonesia, the Indians in the Pacific Islands, the Africans in Israel, etc. etc.

What is needed is a good overall structural description of what has happened to Tibet since the Chinese completely took over. We know about the destruction of religious institutions which may have exceeded similar events in China. What we don’t know about is Tibetan cooperation with the Chinese. One of the authors seems to be the progeny of the Tibetan general in the Chinese army. We know little about Tibetan participation in the Cultural Revolution. After all the Chinese population of Tibet was quite small during that era. We know little about rifts in the Tibetan populations in terms of current development and attitudes toward the Dalai Lama. During Collectivization in the Soviet Union the pastoralists of the “Stans” may have suffered much more than the Kulaks. But then Tibetan pastoralists who were forcibly settled seem to have had little connection to Lamistic Buddhism, Lhasa, or the diaspora. And do Tibetans who have taken “the capitalist road” still revere the Dalai Lama as a living Buddha?

Then there is the mystery of religious protests. The Dalai Lama has condemned violence but has not resigned, so to speak, as he threatened to when Tibetans riot and kill Chinese. Also while the essayists sympathize with recent immolations not much is revealed about the phenomena. Some in the Tibetan government have condemned it, but not the Dalai Lama. There has to be more to the immolation of a mother of three among many others who have burned themselves. That seems to take a lot more explaining than simply a protest against Chinese repression of religion.

Further the move to democracy in the exile community does not seem to be taking root. As much as the Dalai Lama has resigned from leadership of the Tibetan government, his elected replacement neither seems to be assuming authority nor do Tibetans see him as their leader.

These short essays give glimpses of Chinese oppression and Tibetan behavior, and publishing them are clearly acts of courage, but much more needs to be known about what is going on to come to an informed judgment.

Charlie Fisher
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