A Portrait of Lost Tibet
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When the Chinese communists came to power in 1949, they moved to reestablish their "traditional" borders and in 1959 annexed Tibet. Most monasteries were closed, nomads were moved into communes, the nobility stripped of privileges, forests cut, roads paved, military airfields constructed, and Tibet's communication with the outside world was cut off. A Portrait of Lost Tibet provides rare documentary photographs of traditional Tibetan life as it had been lived for countless generations before the radical disruption effected by the Chinese takeover. Rosemary Jones Tung's text describes the culture Ilya Tolstoy and Brooke Dolan found during their ten-month trek across Tibet in 1942. Tung has selected 131 photographs from the 2,000 taken during the Tolstoy and Dolan expedition.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0937938513
ISBN13:9780937938515
Release Date:January 1987
Publisher:Snow Lion Publications
Length:224 Pages
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Asia Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History General Tibet Travel WritingCustomer Reviews
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