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Language: en
Pages: 410
Pages: 410
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
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Language: en
Pages: 408
Pages: 408
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-28 - Publisher:
This book looks at a particular type of indigenous architecture that has developed in the Tibetan capital Lhasa. The focus is not on the relatively well documen
Language: en
Pages: 266
Pages: 266
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Columbia University Press
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 alley
Language: en
Pages: 389
Pages: 389
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-08 - Publisher: BRILL
Diana Lange's patient investigations have, in this wonderful piece of detective work, solved the mysteries of six extraordinary panoramic maps of routes across
Language: en
Pages: 448
Pages: 448
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
When Red Guards arrived in Tibet in 1966, intent on creating a classless society, they unleashed a decade of revolutionary violence, political rallies, and fact