| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Asia perspectives
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Asia perspectives.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The unitary view -- Foreign visitors, oscillations, and extremes -- The square view and the outstretched demoness -- The city, the circle -- Monumental statements and street plans -- From concrete to blue glass -- The new flamboyance and the Tibetan palm tree -- Mestizo : two narratives converge -- The multilayered streets. |
| Summary |
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 nomenklatura. Crumbling mansions, once home to noble ministers, famous lovers, nationalist spies, and covert revolutionaries, now serve as shopping malls and faux-antique hotels. Each embodiment of the city partakes of the others' memories, whispered across time and along the city. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Lhasa (China)
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Lhasa (China) -- Description and travel.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Barnett, Robert, 1953- Lhasa. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2006 0231136803 (DLC) 2005048412 (OCoLC)59879455 |
| ISBN |
023151011X (electronic book) |
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9780231510110 (electronic book) |
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128289773X |
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9781282897731 |
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0231136803 (cloth) |
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9780231136808 (cloth) |
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