A Portrait of Lost Tibet

by Rosemary J. Tung

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0030504511
• ISBN13: 9780030504518
• Release Date: September 1980
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.