Isbn: 9780231136808 - lhasa: streets with memories (asia perspectives: history, society, and culture) (15 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. 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 alleyways that surround a seventh-century temple built to pin down a supine demoness. A web of Stalinist, rectangular blocks houses the new nomenklatura. Crumbling mansions, once home to noble ministers, famous lovers, nationalist spies, and covert revolutionaries, now serve as shopping malls and faux-antique hotels. Each embodiment of the city partakes of the others' memories, whispered across time and along the city streets. In this imaginative new work, Robert Barnett offers a powerful and lyrical exploration of a city long idealized, disregarded, or misunderstood by outsiders. Looking to its streets and stone, Robert Barnett presents a searching and unforgettable portrait of Lhasa, its history, and its illegibility. His book not only offers itself as a manual for thinking about contemporary Tibet but also questions our ways of thinking about foreign places. Barnett juxtaposes contemporary accounts of Tibet, architectural observations, and descriptions by foreign observers to describe Lhasa and its current status as both an ancient city and a modern Chinese provincial capital. His narrative reveals how historical layering, popular memory, symbolism, and mythology constitute the story of a city. Besides the ancient Buddhist temples and former picnic gardens of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa describes the urban sprawl, the harsh rectangular structures, and the geometric blue-glass tower blocks that speak of the anxieties of successive regimes intent upon improving on the past. In Barnett's excavation of the city's past, the buildings and the city streets, interwoven with his own recollections of unrest and resistance, recount the story of Tibet's complex transition from tradition to modernity and its painful history of foreign encounters and political experiment. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Columbia University Press, 2006. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new.

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:0231136803.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Has some light general reading/shelfwear, with dedication on title page - otherwise this is a clean, tight copy. Quick dispatch from the UK. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 244pp hardback, black boards red-lettered in wrapper, decorated end-papers.

Hardcover. 8vo. Pp: xii, 219. Original colour illustrated dust jacket. Publisher's black boards with red lettering to spine and rear. Endpapers illustrated with map of Lhasa. Illustrated throughout with pen drawings.ISBN: 0231136803 Near fine boards, with small mark to bottom page block. Very good plus dust jacket with minor crease to rear edge.…

Zustand: Sehr gut. Original hardcover binding with dust jacket, xli, 219 pages, some maps, very good condition. A very creative portrait of old and new Lhasa, highly interesting. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. xxix, 219 pages, illustrations, 1 map : 24 cm. Contents: The unitary view Foreign visitors, oscillations, and extremes The square view and the outstretched demoness The city, the circle Monumental statements and street plans From concrete to blue glass The new flamboyance and the Tibetan palm tree Mestizo : two narratives converge The multilayered streets. Inscribed by Author(s).…

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. Series: Asia Perspectives: History, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 244 pages, Halftones: 20, BIC Classification: 1FPCT; HBJF; WTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635. . 2006. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. illustrated edition. 244 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.