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Tibet as I Knew It: The Memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba

Tibet as I Knew It: The Memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba

Pemba, Tsewang Yishey
Lama, The Dalai

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture

Biographies GeneralChinese HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1666908568
ISBN13: 9781666908565
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Nov 22 2022
Pages: 228
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Written in the 1990s after retirement from his services as a doctor and discovered by his daughter in the loft of their house in Darjeeling in India in 2017, this memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba provides an intricate portrayal of early twentieth-century Tibet. With his finger on the pulse of the Tibetan ethos, Pemba offers glimpses into the traditional sociology of Tibet and occasionally its snail-paced reforms, as well as the British Raj in India, while recollecting his young days in his native country. Pemba also draws information from prized sources like his father s diaries and his conversations with Tibetan and British officials as well as people at the grassroots. His own metamorphosis, as he leaves Tibet in 1949 for higher education abroad, foreshadows the metamorphosis of Tibet and its inescapable fate in the decade that followed.

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