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In the Land of the Eastern Queendom

The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border

By: Tenzin Jinba

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In the Land of the Eastern Queendom

The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border

By: Tenzin Jinba

The story underlying this ethnography began with the recent discovery and commercialization of the remnant of an ancient “queendom” on the Sichuan-Tibet border. Recorded in classical Chinese texts, this legendary matriarchal domain has attracted not only tourists but the vigilance of the Chinese state. Tenzin Jinba’s research examines the consequences of development of the queendom label for local ethnic, gender, and political identities and for state-society relations.

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University of Washington Press

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029580484X

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9780295804842

The Beggar Lama

The Life of the Gyalrong Kuzhap

By: Tenzin Jinba

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The Beggar Lama

The Life of the Gyalrong Kuzhap

By: Tenzin Jinba

The Beggar Lama is the story of the Gyalrong Kuzhap, a Tibetan Buddhist polymath and reincarnated lama who has led a remarkable life through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century. Born in 1930 in Tsanlha, Gyalrong, on the easternmost fringes of the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau, he would go on to become a monk, a Communist official, a professor of Tibetan studies, and a leader in the Tibetan cultural survival movement in China. Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth and open-ended conversations over more than a decade, Tenzin Jinba presents the Gyalrong Kuzhap’s life story. The Beggar Lama chronicles his journeys—from Gyalrong to Lhasa, from steadfast Communist to critic of the Chinese regime, from scholar to activist—painting a compelling portrait of an influential and unconventional figure. In so doing, the book shows how the Gyalrong Kuzhap’s tale intertwines with larger social and political developments, providing a wide-ranging history of Tibet, the Sino-Tibetan borderlands, and China over the past century. The Beggar Lama shares the Gyalrong Kuzhap’s insightful and often critical views on Tibetan cultural and religious institutions, the Chinese Communist Party’s social and political agendas, Tibetan studies in China, and the prospects for Tibetan cultural rebirth. Above all, it is a story of hope in dark times, as the Gyalrong Kuzhap seeks with his “last breath” to prevent Tibetan culture and memory from vanishing.

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0231557892

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In the Land of the Eastern Queendom

The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border

By: Tenzin Jinba

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The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border

By: Tenzin Jinba

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University of Washington Press

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029580484X

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9780295804842

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In the Land of the Eastern Queendom

In the Land of the Eastern Queendom

The Beggar Lama

The Beggar Lama

In the Land of the Eastern Queendom

In the Land of the Eastern Queendom

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