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...times larger than the one square mile of old. A replica of a 40-meter-high mountain stands across from the Potala Palace, and the blue-glass shopping centers around Friendship Street, Happiness Street and Liberation Street would not look out of place in Las Vegas. The few traditional Tibetan buildings still left standing are like an artificially renovated "Old Town" in the middle of a modern metropolis...
...face of these losses, Barnett reports that more and more Chinese visitors now give offerings to the Buddhas in the Jokhang Temple, adopt Tibetan names, and even seek out lamas to instruct them. Might Tibet creep into Chinese souls and consciences even as China takes over Tibetan streets? Barnett is too subtle and skeptical to concentrate on anything more than the silences that lie at the heart of many a Lhasa conversation, and the human realities that remain too complex for any simple right or wrong. In Lhasa: Streets with Memories, though, he shows us with overpowering restraint a city...
...Chinese who have occupied Tibet for almost half a century may have failed to destroy it with their bulldozers and guns, but the Lhasa of old has nonetheless been developed to the point of extinction. One strategy that has proven particularly potent has been to triple the salaries of Tibetans working for the Chinese government, and then watch them construct gaudy "New Tibetan" houses that reproduce the features of the traditional Tibetan style, but are deracinated within...
...experienced on the streets of Lhasa, then and now. Like many a romantic tourist, Barnett knew little about Tibet when he arrived in Lhasa in October 1987 and suddenly found himself witness and even party to a violent uprising against Chinese rule. Eager to help a wounded Tibetan at one point, he bangs on the doors of the compound where the man is hiding?and realizes, too late, that he has thus drawn the Chinese authorities to the fugitive. To Barnett, such misunderstandings are part of a long history of foreign interventions that, in the interests of assisting Tibet, have...
...field cluttered with propaganda on both sides?the faithful in Beijing exulting in how China has saved Lhasa, their enemies abroad insisting that all Chinese are evil and all Tibetans are pure innocents?Barnett's meticulous documentation has a fresh and welcome air to it. Clearly, he has no time for those who would romanticize old Tibet, or traffic in images of Shangri-La: Tibetans were more than capable of brutality against themselves, he points out, with at least 200 monks dying during an attempted coup in Lhasa in 1947, and the city was never as detached from modern life...