Tibetan and Himalayan Library - THL

Description: Publisher’s Description: This is the first major publication in the West to study modernity and its impact on contemporary Tibet. Based on field work by researchers from the fields of anthropology, sociology, environmental science, literature, art and linguistics, it presents essays on education, economics, childbirth, environment, caste, pop music, media and painting in Tibetan communities today. The findings emerge from studies carried out in Ladakh, Golok, Lhasa, Xining, Shigatse and other areas of the Tibetan world. It will provide important and sometimes surprising results for students of Tibet, China, Himalayan studies, as well as an important contribution to our understandings of modernity and development in the modern world.

Table of Contents: Maps and illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Tibet and Modernity / Ronald Schwartz -- Modernity, Memory, and Agricultural Modernisation in Central Tibet, 1950-1980 / Emily T. Yeh -- The Flow of Wealth in Golok Pastoralist Society: Towards an Assessment of Local Financial Resources for Economic Development / Susan Costello -- Pollution and Social Networks in Contemporary Rural Tibet / Heidi Fjeld -- Embodying the Nation: Childbirth in Contemporary Tibet / Jennifer Marie Chertow -- Imaginaries of Ladakhi Modernity / Martijn van Beek -- Schooling and ‘Quality Education’ in the Tibetan Diaspora and Tibet / Ellen Bangsbo -- A Preliminary Note on Chinese Codeswitching in Modern Lhasa Tibetan / Kalsang Yeshe -- Twentieth Century Tibetan Painting / Tsewang Tashi -- Reflections on Tibetan Film / Chenaktshang Dorje Tsering (Jangbu) -- Dancing to the Beat of Modernity: the Rise and Development of Tibetan Pop Music / Yangdon Dhondup -- Blue Lake: Tibetan Popular Music, Place and Fantasies of the Nation / Anna Stirr -- newtibet.com: Citizenship as Agency in a Virtual Tibetan Public / Tashi Rabgey -- Authenticity, Secrecy, and Public Space: Chen Kuiyuan and Representations of the Panchen Lama Reincarnation Dispute of 1995 / Robert Barnett -- Appendix: Books and Dissertation on 20th Century Tibet -- Contributors -- Index.