The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947
10 best books like The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947 (Tsering Shakya): Twilight in the Forbidden City, The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Heaven Cracks, Earth Shakes: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Death of Mao's China, Bamboo Palace: Discovering the Lost Dynasty of Laos, Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet, The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk, The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama, Tibet: A History, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama, The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place
| Author | Reginald Fleming Johnston |
| ISBN | 1843560208 |
As part of China's 2008 Olympic welcome to visitors Xiaomina Press, presents this book about the last emperor of China. This book is essential reading for all visitors to China The Author Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston was a Scottish diplomat and the tutor of Puyi, the last emperor of China. Johnston...
The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
| Author | Ji Xianlin |
| ISBN | 1590179277 |
The Chinese Cultural Revolution began in 1966 and led to a ten-year-long reign of Maoist terror throughout China, in which millions died or were sent to labor camps in the country or subjected to other forms of extreme discipline and humiliation. Ji Xianlin was one of them. The Cowshed is Ji’s harrowing...
When an earthquake of historic magnitude leveled the industrial city of Tangshan in the summer of 1976, killing more than a half-million people, China was already gripped by widespread social unrest. As Mao lay on his deathbed, the public mourned the death of popular premier Zhou Enlai. Anger toward...
Bamboo Palace: Discovering the Lost Dynasty of Laos
| Author | Christopher Kremmer |
| ISBN | 0732277566 |
In Search of Laos - revealing new details of the fate of one of Asia's oldest monarchies.
∗ A new and updated edition of Kremmer's award-winning title. twenty years after the Indochina wars, Christopher Kremmer visited Laos - at the crossroads of change in Southeast Asia. He started his journey...
| Author | Peter Hopkirk |
| ISBN | 1568360509 |
For nineteenth-century adventures, Tibet was the prize destination, and Lhasa, its capital situated nearly three miles above sea level, was the grandest trophy of all. The lure of this mysterious land, and its strategic importance, made it inevitable that despite the Tibetans' reluctance to end...
| Author | Palden Gyatso |
| ISBN | 0802135749 |
Palden Gyatso was born in a Tibetan village in 1933 and became an ordained Buddhist monk at 18 — just as Tibet was in the midst of political upheaval. When Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, it embarked on a program of “reform” that would eventually affect all of Tibet’s citizens and nearly...
The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama
| Author | Melvyn C. Goldstein |
| ISBN | 0520219511 |
Tensions over the "Tibet Question"—the political status of Tibet—are escalating every day. The Dalai Lama has gained broad international sympathy in his appeals for autonomy from China, yet the Chinese government maintains a hard-line position against it. What is the history of the conflict?...
| Author | Sam Van Schaik |
| ISBN | 0300154046 |
Situated north of the Himalayas, Tibet is famous for its unique culture and its controversial assimilation into modern China. Yet Tibet in the twenty-first century can only be properly understood in the context of its extraordinary history.
Sam van Schaik brings the history of Tibet to life...
| Author | Thomas Laird |
| ISBN | 0802118275 |
The Story of Tibet is a work of monumental importance, a fascinating journey through the land and history of Tibet, with His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama as guide. Over the course of three years, journalist Thomas Laird spent more than sixty hours with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in candid, one-on-one...
| Author | Ian Baker |
| ISBN | 1594200270 |
The myth of Shangri-la originates in Tibetan Buddhist beliefs in beyul, or hidden lands, sacred sanctuaries that reveal themselves to devout pilgrims and in times of crisis. The more remote and inaccessible the beyul, the vaster its reputed qualities. Ancient Tibetan prophecies declare that the...
| Author | John F. Avedon |
| ISBN | 0060977418 |
China since Deng Xiaoping has been a fast growing and somewhat prosperous authoritarian state. Before Deng under Mao it was a chamber of horrors as bad as any in the 20th century (great leap forward, anti-rightist rectification campaign, Cultural revolution). This history can be found in any relatively...
| Author | Patrick French |
| ISBN | 1400034175 |
At different times in its history Tibet has been renowned for pacifism and martial prowess, enlightenment and cruelty. The Dalai Lama may be the only religious leader who can inspire the devotion of agnostics. Patrick French has been fascinated by Tibet since he was a teenager. He has read its history,...
| Author | Claire Scobie |
| ISBN | 1846040051 |
Some go to Tibet seeking inspiration, others for adventure. The award-winning journalist, Claire Scobie, found both when she left her ordinary life in London and went to the Himalayas in search of a rare red lily. Her journey took her to Pemako, where few Westerners have set foot and where the myth of...
| Author | John Powers |
| ISBN | 1559390263 |
Ommmm, I want to immerse myself in the robed peace of the Tibetan monks. Here's a paraphrased excerpt from the Introduction of this book: A lotus is born in the muck and mud at the bottom of a swamp, but when it emerges on the surface of the water and opens its petals, a beautiful flower appears, unstained...
| Author | Donald S. Lopez Jr. |
| ISBN | 0226493113 |
Prisoners of Shangri-La is a provocative analysis of the romance of Tibet, a romance that, even as it is invoked by Tibetan lamas living in exile, ultimately imprisons those who seek the goal of Tibetan independence from Chinese occupation.
"Lopez lifts the veil on America's romantic vision...
The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China
| Author | Dieter Kuhn |
| ISBN | 0674031466 |
Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly half of all humankind. In this concise history, we learn why the inventiveness of this era has been favorably compared with the European Renaissance, which...
| Author | Diana Preston |
| ISBN | 0425180840 |
Chinese peasants chafed against the foreign technologies and ideas that the imperialists introduced. Then a new movement-mystical, materialistic, and virulently anti-Christian-began to spread among them like wildfire. The foreigners laughed at the peasants' martial-arts routines and nicknamed...
Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man
| Author | Jonathan D. Spence |
| ISBN | 0670063576 |
A renowned historian captures a critical moment in Chinese history
Zhang Dai is recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of China’s Ming dynasty. When he was born into a wealthy family in 1597, the Ming dynasty had been in place for 229 years. Zhang’s early life was marked...
China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia
Additional. I knew I didn't do justice to this book. I'm on page 18 of a second read and have no notion why I didn't five-star this. Fixed.
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I'm giving this a second read.
He argues for 'human agency' in history, and feels that previous history, of the steppe and China -- specific to...
Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China
| Author | Wang Ping |
| ISBN | 0385721366 |
When Wang Ping was nine years old, she secretly set about binding her feet with elastic bands. Footbinding had by then been outlawed in China, women’s feet “liberated,” but at that young age she desperately wanted the tiny feet her grandmother had–deformed and malodorous as they were. By first...
Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768
| Author | Philip A. Kuhn |
| ISBN | 0674821521 |
Midway through the reign of the Ch'ien-lung emperor, Hungli, in the most prosperous period of China's last imperial dynasty, mass hysteria broke out among the common people. It was feared that sorcerers were roaming the land, clipping off the ends of men's queues (the braids worn by royal decree),...
China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty
The Tang dynasty is often called China's "golden age," a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent...
China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
| Author | Richard Bernstein |
| ISBN | 0307595889 |
A riveting account of the watershed moment in America’s dealings with China that forever altered the course of East-West relations
As 1945 opened, America was on surprisingly congenial terms with China’s Communist rebels—their soldiers treated their American counterparts as...
Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond
| Author | Pankaj Mishra |
| ISBN | 0312426410 |
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
In Temptations of the West, Pankaj Mishra brings literary authority and political insight to bear on journeys through South Asia, and considers the pressures of Western-style modernity and prosperity on the region. Beginning in India, his examination...
