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Shelton, Albert L. Pioneering in Tibet: A Personal Record of Life and Experience in Mission Fields. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1921.
Christina Stoltz Review of Shelton, Albert L. Pioneering in Tibet: A Personal Record of Life and Experience in Mission Fields. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1921. Abstract: Dr. Albert Shelton (1875-1922) was an American medical doctor and Christian missionary in Kham in the early twentieth century. In his autobiography, written while taking a yearlong furlough in … [Read more...]
Lama Yongden. Mipam. 1938. [Indian reprint 1971; SUNY reprint 1987].
(Note: Mipam, the first novel written especially for Westerners by a Tibetan Lama, was originally published in 1938. "…while camping with my mother by adoption, the explorer Alexandra David-Neel, amid the vast solitudes of Northern Tibet, I happened to speak once more of the distress I had experienced on seeing the people and things of my native land so travested. She urged me, … [Read more...]
Ekvall, Robert Brainerd. Tents against the Sky. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Young. 1954.
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Ekvall, Robert Brainerd. The Lama knows: a Tibetan legend is born. Novato, Calif.: Chandler & Sharp Publishers, 1981.
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Yeshi Tenzin. The Defiant Ones. Translated by David Kwan. Beijing: Chinese Literature Press, 1993.
The Defiant Ones By Yeshi Tenzin A Book Review by Jack Wilson On the surface, The Defiant Ones by Yeshi Tenzin seems to do little other than extol the values and ideologies of the Chinese Communist Party. Set in Yangde County, much of the story is centered on a peasant revolt staged in Dengye village against the tyrannical aristocrat and administrator of the region, … [Read more...]
Tailing, W. (Bras gling Dbang rdor, Brag gdong). The Secret Tale of Tesur House. Beijing, China: China Tibetology Pub. House, 1998.
Travis B. Thurber 30 May 2007 A Review of The Secret of Tesur House Abstract: The Secret of Tesur House is a book of historical fiction written in 1993 by W. Tailing, a teacher and a native of Tibet. The narrative follows the adventures of Drugye, a Tibetan commoner, as he struggles through a life of business, murder, and bureaucracy. Sprinkled throughout the story are … [Read more...]
Alai. Red Poppies. Translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
Sara Canby 23 April 2007 (Note: Originally in Chinese) A Review of Red Poppies Red Poppies, a novel by Alai, a Tibetan who lives in China, recounts the decline of the Maichi family and the decline of the ruling chieftains in general upon the Communist victory in 1959. The work is narrated by the Idiot, one of two sons of the Maichi chieftain; life in the Sichuan … [Read more...]
Rinjing Dorje. The Renegade Monk of Tibet. Edmonds, WA: Banyan Press, 2005.
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Guhruh. Jahzong: Tibetan Tribal Leader. Xining: Plateau Publications, 2005.
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Xinran. Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet. Translated by Julia Lovell and Esther Tyldesleytors. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2005.
Julia Kirchner 04-28-07 (Note: Originally in Chinese) A Review of Sky Burial Sky Burial is story told by the Chinese author Xinran about a Chinese woman from Suzhou who spent thirty years in Tibet during the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and the reform years. Her story offers the perspective of a traditional Chinese woman who falls in love with and embraces … [Read more...]