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NEW BOOKS

2007-03-16

Tibet 2007年1期

Zhang Jingwu and Tibetan Liberation

The Research Office of Party History of the Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region edited this book. In the 1950s, Zhang Jingwu received orders to Tibet. He was designated as the representative of the Central Government and the Party Secretary of the Working Committee of CPC in Tibet. Over ten years, he made efforts to develop the economy and culture of Tibet by careful planning and taking measured steps. Meanwhile he treated the upper class in Tibet as friends. For the price of 88.00 Yuan this book will take you back to that period in history. The Publishing House of the Party History of Chinese Communist Party was its publisher.

Tibetan Terrain and Its Culture

Tharra Tsering Yudro, accredited as national author at second level, has written a book. She was a famed Tibetan expert of folklore, and the deputy Chairwoman of the Tibetan Association for Art and Literature. Being born in Amdo County of Nagqu Prefecture and served there for over 30 years, she held the post as vice governor of Nagqu Government. Over 40 years, she never gave up her field works and traveled wherever she could reach in order to write her books, including Corpus of Folklore in Northern Tibet and the Jangthang Grassland and Myself. Her books show her passionate love and admiration for Tibet. The book costs 25 Yuan, and is published by Tibetan People's Publishing House.

Tibet is My Hometown

A book about Tashi Tsering and written by Melvyn C Goldstein & William Siebenschuh and translated by Yang Hochin. Tashi Tsering, the dramatis personae, said "My autobiography in this book truly depicts most of my life in detail. It expresses my ideology and the whole process of how I made my contributions toward the modernization of Tibet". Being born in a small village of the South Nagqu County in Shigatse, Tashi Tsering left there for India and the United States in 1956 to fulfill his education. In 1964, he came back to Tibet. He has edited English-Tibetan-Chinese Dictionary. In 1985, he started to develop his first English school in Lhasa; since then, by cooperating with government agencies, community organizations, or individuals, he has built up over 70 primary schools, vocational schools, and training programs in Namling County and also other poverty counties, by which show his important contributions to Tibetan education. This book costs 30 Yuan, and is published by China Tibetology Publishing House.

Tibetan Bon Religion

Kelsang Tseten is the author of this book. Referred to as the headstream of Tibetan culture, Bon Religion creates the origins of Tibetan culture, including folk customs, behaviors and standards, Tibetan character, Tibetan medicine and astrology and the system of politics and religion. This book narrates in detail about how Bon Religion came into being, how it has gone through its development and what the schools are, its sutras, literature, language, impacts on Tibetan society and the status quo. It costs 35 Yuan and is published by the Tibetan People's Publishing House.

A Series of Books on Tibetan Antelopes

Four books are included in this series, edited by Xiao Hao. He worked in Tibet and spent lots of his time traveling around Tibet. The books record what he, together with his friends, has observed in Tibet. The Tibetan People's Publishing House published it.

Traveling around the Lakes in Heaven. With a pleasant approach to writing, Feng Shaohua, the author, shares his experiences on travel around some well-known places in Tibet, including those unoccupied places, the meditation caves of Tantric clergies, the burying platforms, the walls built up of human skulls. The book costs 18 Yuan.

Tibet-Eternity and Short-lived. With his sensitivity as writer and reporter, Liu Wei presents more detailed knowledge about the divinity and personality of mountains and rivers in Tibet, based on the previous book Holy Mountains and Sacret Lakes. The book costs 16 Yuan.

Lhasa Map (a corpus of prose). Ma Yuan, the author, takes the main theme of Lhasa and Barkor Street to express his feelings and profound affections towards Tibet. The book costs 10 Yuan.

Tibetan Dance and Folk Custom

Wang Xihua (Also Yontsun Sonam Tsering), the author, describes a general summary of 16 categories of Tibetan dances. He involved himself in searching, categorizing, and editing 13 kinds of dance and all other kinds of dances in Lhoka Prefecture. The book collects over 20 of his papers in this regard. It costs 19 Yuan and is published by Tibetan People's Publishing House.