Tibet as I knew it : the memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba /
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| Author / Creator: | Pemba, Tsewang Y., author. |
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| Imprint: | Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023] |
| Description: | vi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in modern Tibetan culture Studies in modern Tibetan culture. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13523955 |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | vi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781666908565 1666908568 9781666908572 |
