Sky Train – Tibetan Women on the Edge of History Sam Paperback 9780295989532
Sky TrainTibetan Women on the Edge of History\nAuthor(s): Canyon Sam\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780295989532, 978-0295989532\nSynopsis\nWinner of the 2010 PEN American Open Book Award\n Through a lyrical narrative of her journey to Tibet in 2007, activist Canyon Sam contemplates modern history from the perspective of Tibetan women. Traveling on China's new \""Sky Train,\"" she celebrates Tibetan New Year with the Lhasa family whom she'd befriended decades earlier and concludes an oral-history project with women elders.\nAs she uncovers stories of Tibetan women's courage, resourcefulness, and spiritual strength in the face of loss and hardship since the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950, and observes the changes wrought by the controversial new rail line in the futuristic \""new Lhasa,\"" Sam comes to embrace her own capacity for letting go, for faith, and for acceptance. Her glimpse of.
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