On The Margins Of Tibet: Cultural Survival On The Sino-tibetan Frontier

by KOLAS, ASHILD; THOWSEN, MONIKA P.

• ISBN13: 9780295984810
• ISBN10: 0295984813
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-30
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

Summary

The authors have gathered an astounding array of data to quantify Tibetan cultural activities - language, literature, visual arts, museums, performing arts, festivals, and religion. Drawing on their fieldwork and interviews conducted in the ethnic Tibetan areas surrounding the Tibetan Autonomous Region - parts of the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Gansu, Yunnan, and Qinghai - they make every effort to present a complete and unbiased picture of Tibetan communities living on China's western frontiers.

Author Biography

Ashild Kolas is a researcher at the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Oslo.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	vii
A Note on Transliteration	xi
Introduction	3	(26)
1 The Setting	29	(15)
2 Religious Sites and the Practice of Religion	44	(49)
3 The Dilemmas of Education in Tibetan Areas	93	(39)
4 In Search of Tibetan Culture	132	(21)
5 Culture As a Way of Life	153	(19)
6 Tibetan Culture on the Margins: Destruction or Reconstruction?	172	(11)
APPENDIXES
1 Administrative Divisions in the People's Republic of China	183	(2)
2 Demographic Composition in the Autonomous Prefectures	185	(6)
3 Data on Religion	191	(18)
4 Data on Bilingual Education	209	(6)
5 Place-Names in Chinese and Tibetan	215	(4)
6 Guide for Semi-Structured Interviews	219	(4)
Notes	223	(28)
Chinese and Tibetan Glossary	251	(12)
References	263	(10)
Index	273