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Tibet, The Last Cry

  • ISBN-13: 9789881613950
  • Publisher: BLACKSMITH BOOKS
    Imprint: BLACKSMITH BOOKS
  • By Eric Meyer, Photographs by Laurent Zylberman
  • Price: AUD $40.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 02/04/2014
  • Format: Paperback (221.00mm X 214.00mm) 208 pages Weight: 626g
  • Categories: Travel & holiday guides [WTH]
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Eric Meyer and Laurent Zylberman were the only freelance journalists allowed into Tibet after the 2008 riots which left parts of Lhasa in ruins. They saw the friction between two cultures: police and soldiers patrol the towns, while crowds of Han immigrants pour into the region like new frontier settlers seeking their fortunes. Tibet is going through drastic economic change, shaking up ancient ways of life and altering the fragile ecological balance of the once-nomadic high plateau. China is massively investing to turn Tibet into a modern country. Downtown shops crammed with made-in-China fashion are run by battalions of saleswomen in uniform, and nightclubs draw crowds of Tibetan teenagers in search of Western music. A series of black-and-white photographs intertwine - often in a single shot - the clashes between two very different communities who have never fully understood each other. Narrated day by day, both text and images immerse the reader in an eye-opening journey across the roof of the world.
Eric Meyer is a journalist and author who has worked in China since 1987. He lives in Beijing. Laurent Zylberman is a photographer whose work has been exhibited in New York and elsewhere. He lives in Paris.
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