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Lhasa : streets with memories /
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 nomen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2006]
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| Colección: | Asia perspectives.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxix, 219 pages) : illustrations, 1 map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 023151011X 9780231510110 128289773X 9781282897731 9786612897733 6612897732 |