9780812988116 - Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town von Demick, Barbara (8 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. Barbara Demick is the author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award and the winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize in the United Kingdom, and Lo.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the bestselling author of Nothing to Envy A brilliantly reported and eye-opening work of narrative nonfiction. The New York Times Book ReviewNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Parul Sehgal, The New York Times The New York Times Book Review The Washington Post NPR The Economist Outside Foreign AffairsJust as she did with North Korea, award-winning journalist Barbara Demickexplores one of the most hidden corners of the world.She tells the story of a Tibetan town perchedeleven thousandfeet above sea level that is one of the most difficult places in all of China for foreigners to visit. Ngaba was one of the first places where the Tibetans and the Chinese Communists encountered one another. In the 1930s, Mao Zedong s Red Army fled into the Tibetan plateau to escape their adversaries in the Chinese Civil War. By the time the soldiers reached Ngaba, they were so hungry that they looted monasteries and ate religious statues made of flour and butter to Tibetans, it was as if they were eating the Buddha. Their experiences would make Ngaba one of the engines of Tibetan resistance for decades to come, culminating in shocking acts of self-immolation. Eat the Buddha spans decades of modern Tibetan and Chinese history, as told through the private lives of Demick s subjects, among them a princess whose family is wiped out during the Cultural Revolution,a young Tibetan nomad who becomes radicalized in the storied monastery of Kirti,an upwardly mobile entrepreneur who falls in love with a Chinese woman,a poet and intellectual who risks everything to voice his resistance, anda Tibetan schoolgirl forced to choose at an early age betweenher familyand the elusive lure of Chinese money. All of them face the same dilemma:Do they resist the Chinese, or do they join them Do they adhere to Buddhist teachings of compassion and nonviolence, or do they fight Illuminating a culture that has long been romanticized by Westerners as deeply spiritual and peaceful, Demick reveals what it is really like to be a Tibetan in the twenty-firstcentury, trying to preserve one s culture, faith,and language against the depredations of a seemingly unstoppable, technologically all-seeing superpower. Her depiction is nuanced, unvarnished, and at times shocking.