A01=Tsewang Yishey Pemba
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Author_Tsewang Yishey Pemba
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Himalayan
lhasa
memoir
tibetan culture
Tibetan history
tsewang pemba
Product details
- ISBN 9781666908589
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 05 Feb 2025
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Written 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.
Tsewang Yishey Pemba was born on June 5, 1932 in Gyantse, Tibet. He is the author of Young Days in Tibet (1957), Idols on the Path (1966), and White Crane, Lend Me Your Wings (2017).
