{"product_id":"tibet-as-i-knew-it-the-memoir-of-dr-tsewang-yishey-pemba-9781666908565","title":"Tibet as I Knew It: The Memoir of Dr. Tsewang","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in the 1990s after retirement from his services as a doctor and discovered by his daughter in the loft of their house in Darjeeling in India in 2017, this memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba provides an intricate portrayal of early twentieth-century Tibet. With his finger on the pulse of the Tibetan ethos, Pemba offers glimpses into the traditional sociology of Tibet and occasionally its snail-paced reforms, as well as the British Raj in India, while recollecting his young days in his native country. Pemba also draws information from prized sources like his father´s diaries and his conversations with Tibetan and British officials as well as people at the grassroots. His own metamorphosis, as he leaves Tibet in 1949 for higher education abroad, foreshadows the metamorphosis of Tibet and its inescapable fate in the decade that followed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword, Dalai Lama\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Historical Background\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Family Background\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Early Glimmerings in Gyantse and Yatung, Tibet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Journey to Lhasa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Forbidden Baston or Open City: A Portrait of Lhasa \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Three Years in Lhasa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: The Dalai Lama and Reincarnation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Tibetans and Sex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Lhasa to India: A Journey to School\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: A Tibetan Schoolboy During the British Raj: Metamorphosis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Back Home to Tibet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Another Metamorphosis and Another Winter in Yatung\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Farewell Tibet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue I: Return to Tibet in 2007\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue II: Return from Tibet \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042004074839,"sku":"9781666908565","price":65.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781666908565.jpg?v=1750952577","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tibet-as-i-knew-it-the-memoir-of-dr-tsewang-yishey-pemba-9781666908565","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}