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Publication Date
2015-04-14
ISBN
9781610392891
Book Title
Noodle Maker of Kalimpong : the Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet
Publisher
Public Affairs
Item Length
9.5 in
Publication Year
2015
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1.2 in
Author
Anne F. Thurston, Gyalo Thondup
Genre
Religion, Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Topic
Buddhism / Tibetan, Religious, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Political, Asia / China, World / Asian
Item Weight
21.8 Oz
Item Width
6.5 in
Number of Pages
384 Pages

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Public Affairs
ISBN-10
1610392892
ISBN-13
9781610392891
eBay Product ID (ePID)
203756018

Product Key Features

Book Title
Noodle Maker of Kalimpong : the Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
Buddhism / Tibetan, Religious, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Political, Asia / China, World / Asian
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Religion, Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Anne F. Thurston, Gyalo Thondup
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
21.8 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-046680
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"Anyone seeking a detailed version of the history, life, and struggles of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, and his family will find it here, recounted in an authorial voice that is both conversationally personal and educational."-- Booklist, "...A fascinating and important book...[the book provides] extraordinary insight into Tibet's struggle against China to regain its independence...A crisp and magnetic story."-- The Wall Street Journal "Anyone seeking a detailed version of the history, life, and struggles of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, and his family will find it here, recounted in an authorial voice that is both conversationally personal and educational."-- Booklist "...heartbreaking, gripping..."-- South China Morning Post, "...A fascinating and important book...[the book provides] extraordinary insight into Tibet's struggle against China to regain its independence...A crisp and magnetic story."-- The Wall Street Journal "A vital narrative of Tibetans' ongoing effort for independence, and Thondup's bravery is commendable."-- Publishers Weekly "Anyone seeking a detailed version of the history, life, and struggles of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, and his family will find it here, recounted in an authorial voice that is both conversationally personal and educational."-- Booklist "...heartbreaking, gripping..."-- South China Morning Post, "...A fascinating and important book...[the book provides] extraordinary insight into Tibet's struggle against China to regain its independence...A crisp and magnetic story."-- The Wall Street Journal "Full of tales of international intrigue."-- Foreign Affairs "A vital narrative of Tibetans' ongoing effort for independence, and Thondup's bravery is commendable."-- Publishers Weekly "Anyone seeking a detailed version of the history, life, and struggles of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, and his family will find it here, recounted in an authorial voice that is both conversationally personal and educational."-- Booklist "...heartbreaking, gripping..."-- South China Morning Post, "...A fascinating and important book...[the book provides] extraordinary insight into Tibet's struggle against China to regain its independence...A crisp and magnetic story."-- The Wall Street Journal "Anyone seeking a detailed version of the history, life, and struggles of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, and his family will find it here, recounted in an authorial voice that is both conversationally personal and educational."-- Booklist
Synopsis
Shortly before midnight on March 17, 1959, the Dalai Lama, without his glasses and dressed as an ordinary Tibetan solider, slipped out of his summer residence with only four aides at his side. At that moment, he became the symbolic head of the Tibetan government in exile, and Gyalo Thondup, the only one of the Dalai Lama's brothers not to don the robes of a Buddhist monk, became the fulcrum for the independence movement. The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong tells the extraordinary story of the Dalai Lama's family, the exile of the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism from Tibet, and the enduring political crisis that has seen remote and bleakly beautiful Tibet all but disappear as an independent nation-state. For the last sixty years, Gyalo Thondup has been at the at the heart of the epic struggle to protect and advance Tibet in the face of unreliable allies, overwhelming odds, and devious rivals, playing an utterly determined and unique role in a Cold War high-altitude superpower rivalry. Here, for the first time, he reveals how he found himself whisked between Chiang Kai-shek, Zhou Enlai, Jawaharlal Nehru, and the CIA, as he tried to secure, on behalf of his brother, the future of Tibet., Shortly before midnight on March 17, 1959 , the Dalai Lama, without his glasses and dressed as an ordinary Tibetan solider, slipped out of his summer residence with only four aides at his side. At that moment, he became the symbolic head of the Tibetan government in exile, and Gyalo Thondup, the only one of the Dalai Lama's brothers not to don the robes of a Buddhist monk, became the fulcrum for the independence movement. The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong tells the extraordinary story of the Dalai Lama's family, the exile of the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism from Tibet, and the enduring political crisis that has seen remote and bleakly beautiful Tibet all but disappear as an independent nation-state. For the last sixty years, Gyalo Thondup has been at the at the heart of the epic struggle to protect and advance Tibet in the face of unreliable allies, overwhelming odds, and devious rivals, playing an utterly determined and unique role in a Cold War high-altitude superpower rivalry. Here, for the first time, he reveals how he found himself whisked between Chiang Kai-shek, Zhou Enlai, Jawaharlal Nehru, and the CIA, as he tried to secure, on behalf of his brother, the future of Tibet., Shortly before midnight on March 17, 1959, the Dalai Lama, without his glasses and dressed as an ordinary Tibetan solider, slipped out of his summer residence with only four aides at his side. At that moment, he became the symbolic head of the Tibetan government in exile, and Gyalo Thondup, the only one of the Dalai Lama's brothers not to don the robes of a Buddhist monk, became the fulcrum for the independence movement. The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong tells the extraordinary story of the Dalai Lama's family, the exile of the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism from Tibet, and the enduring political crisis that has seen remote and bleakly beautiful Tibet all but disappear as an independent nation-state.For the last sixty years, Gyalo Thondup has been at the at the heart of the epic struggle to protect and advance Tibet in the face of unreliable allies, overwhelming odds, and devious rivals, playing an utterly determined and unique role in a Cold War high-altitude superpower rivalry. Here, for the first time, he reveals how he found himself whisked between Chiang Kai-shek, Zhou Enlai, Jawaharlal Nehru, and the CIA, as he tried to secure, on behalf of his brother, the future of Tibet.
LC Classification Number
DS785.R44 2015

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