Lhasa : : Streets with Memories /

Lhasa : : Streets with Memories / / Robert Barnett.

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There are many Lhasas. One is a grid of uniform boulevards lined with plush hotels, all-night bars, and blue-glass-fronted offices. Another is a warren of alleyways that surround a seventh-century temple built to pin down a supine demoness. A web of Stalinist, rectangular blocks houses the new nomen...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Barnett, Robert,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (244 p.) :; ‹B›Halftones: ‹/B›20.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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: Two Narratives Converge
  • 9. The Multilayered Streets
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Index

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