Gebundenes Buch

Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change

Beschreibung

Collection provides a critical introduction to both the recent emergence of modern literary forms by Tibetan writers-- writing in Tibetan, Chinese, and English--and to the cultural discourse accompanying and bolstered by this new literature.

Autor

Lauran R. Hartley is Tibetan Studies Librarian at the C. V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University. The translator of Six Stars with a Crooked Neck: Tibetan Memoirs of the Cultural Revolution, Hartley has a doctorate in Tibetan studies. Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani is part-time Assistant Professor of Chinese at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. She is President and Founder of the Tibetan Arts and Literature Initiative, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting Tibetan publishing initiatives. Schiaffini-Vedani has a doctorate in Chinese language and literature, specializing in Sinophone Tibetan literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 844g
• ISBN-13: 9780822342540
• ISBN-10: 0822342545
• Artikelnr.: 23368616