LHASA THE OPEN CITY A JOURNEY TO TIBET Han Suyin 1977 1st ed DJ (Suyin, Han )

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LHASA THE OPEN CITY A JOURNEY TO TIBET Han Suyin 1977 1st ed DJ
By Suyin, Han
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New York, 1977, 1st edition. 180 pp, photos. This is the absorbing account of a vibrant city by Hans Suyin - The first person from abroad to do so in thirteen years. Contrary to the view that Tibet as a Lamaist paradise, was stripped of it's culture by Chinese invaders the author found Lhasa as a pulsating city whose people, while proud of their heritage, are determined to remove the last traces of a feudal theocracy which prevailed until 1959. By tracing the region's historical background Hans Suyin shows that close links have existed between Tibet and China since the Seventh century.

Han Suyin is the Chinese-born author of several books on modern China, novels set in East Asia, and autobiographical works, as well as a physician. She is best known as the author of A MANY-SPENDORED THING and visited Tibet in October and November 1975. She traces the historical background of Tibet to the 7th century, and traces changes which occurred between 1962-75. Her photos show temples and monasteries, but also emerging industrailization. The author's family in Szechuan had links with Tibet for over two centuries. Hardcover, DJ, Fine.

The book contains much praise for the development, modernisation and secularization of Tibet - 'Today, new Lhasa is growing, and the old city is diminishing in size. I saw a bulldozer destroying some houses, which will be rebuilt with modern conveniences. The whole structure upon which old Lhasa lived has gone, and the shops, which were of craftsmen turning out objects of religious worship, sculptures, jewellery, and leather goods, have become cooperatives, still functioning, but directed towards consumption by the people themselves, or for export [.]'. Heinrich Harrer gives an opinion of this book in his 'Return to Tibet'.

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