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200 10$aLhasa$b[electronic resource] $estreets with memories /$fRobert Barnett
210   $aNew York ;$aChichester $cColumbia University Press$d2010
215   $a1 online resource (265 p.)
225 1 $aAsia perspectives
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-231-13681-1 
327   $aCONTENTS; PREFACE; A NOTE ON HISTORY; A NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREAMBLE; 1THE UNITARY VIEW; 2. FOREIGN VISITORS, OSCILLATIONS, AND EXTREMES; 3. THE SQUARE VIEW AND THE OUT STRETCHED DEMONESS; 4. THE CITY, THE CIRCLE; 5. MONUMENTAL STATEMENTS AND STREET PLANS; 6. FROM CONCRETE TO BLUE GLASS; 7. THE NEW FLAMBOYANCE AND THE TIBETAN PALM TREE; 8. MESTIZO: TWO NARRATIVES CONVERGE; 9 .THE MULTILAYERED STREETS; NOTES; GLOSSARY; INDEX
330   $aThere are many Lhasas. One is a grid of uniform boulevards lined with plush hotels, all-night bars, and blue-glass-fronted offices. Another is a warren of alleyways that surround a seventh-century temple built to pin down a supine demoness. A web of Stalinist, rectangular blocks houses the new  nomenklatura. Crumbling mansions, once home to noble ministers, famous lovers, nationalist spies, and covert revolutionaries, now serve as shopping malls and  faux-antique hotels. Each embodiment of the city partakes of the others' memories, whispered across time and along the city
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