Bibliograph

Lhasa, streets with memories, Robert Barnett

Type

Label

Lhasa, streets with memories, Robert Barnett

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lhasa

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

64179657

Responsibility statement

Robert Barnett

Series statement

Asia perspectives

Sub title

streets with memories

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

Table Of 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

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