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Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History |  | Author: Canyon Sam
Publisher: University of Washington Press
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 278
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 029598953X
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.4209515
EAN: 9780295989532
ASIN: 029598953X
Publication Date: October 15, 2009
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Through a lyrical narrative of her journey to Tibet in 2007, activist Canyon Sam contemplates modern history from the perspective of Tibetan women. Traveling on China's new "Sky Train," she celebrates Tibetan New Year with the Lhasa family whom she'd befriended decades earlier and concludes an oral-history project with women elders. As she uncovers stories of Tibetan women's courage, resourcefulness, and spiritual strength in the face of loss and hardship since the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950, and observes the changes wrought by the controversial new rail line in the futuristic "new Lhasa," Sam comes to embrace her own capacity for letting go, for faith, and for acceptance. Her glimpse of Tibet's past through the lens of the women - a visionary educator, a freedom fighter, a gulag survivor, and a child bride - affords her a unique perspective on the state of Tibetan culture today - in Tibet, in exile, and in the widening Tibetan diaspora. Gracefully connecting the women's poignant histories to larger cultural, political, and spiritual themes, the author comes full circle, finding wisdom and wholeness even as she acknowledges Tibet's irreversible changes.
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 a must-read for anyone interested in Tibet October 26, 2009
BONNIE K. MCCALLA (Napa, CA USA)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Beautifully written, compelling, heartbreaking, but also vastly entertaining. Canyon takes us with her on a recent train journey to Lhasa while recounting the stories of four incredible women whose lives were radically altered by the Chinese occupation of Tibet.
Much is told in this book that has not been chronicled before, thus, it is a must-read for anyone interested in the story of Tibet.
I could not put this book down.
All of us involved in the struggle to restore Tibet to its rightful owners, the Tibetan people, owe Canyon a tremendous debt of gratitude for writing this incredible and beautiful book. May it give us all renewed courage and strength to continue to fight the good fight. Bhod rangzen! Free Tibet!
wonderfully written October 25, 2009
Sunny Book (Tucson, AZ USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Couldn't put it down!! Riveting stories within a story, wonderfully written, telling personal and heartfelt experiences of several Tibetan women within the framework of Canyon Sam's own experience. I read it in 1 day. Masterfully written. A must read for anyone interested in Asian Studies, Women's Studies and Human determination and perserverence.
Important! Interesting! & Insightful! October 28, 2009
M. J. Friedman (Oakland, CA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I bow my head in thanks to Canyon for writing such an intimate and relevant book. It was an honor, held in sorrow as well as amazement, to join in Canyon's journey. Her ability to weave personal stories (including her own) with hard and devastating facts, makes this book an engaging must-read! I am buying a copy for everyone in my book group!
a passionate and beautifully written book October 29, 2009
G. Kirk (Oakland, CA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This amazing book takes readers on many journeys. On a 4-day train trip from Beijing to Lhasa we disembark in the heart of the 50-year Chinese occupation of Tibet. We accompany the writer across Tibet, India, Switzerland, Canada and the US to hear, with her, the untold stories of remarkable Tibetan women who survived shocking ordeals, sustained by their physical and spiritual strength. We also share Canyon Sam's inner journey to Buddhism, her activism on behalf of Tibetans in exile, and to a deeper understanding of her Chinese American heritage. By the end of this passionate and beautifully written book, I was in awe of the Tibetan women who, despite extreme hardships, continued to find hope and meaning in their changed lives. I'm also in awe of the writer who devoted many years to getting these stories into print. Her love and respect for the women she interviewed shine out as she deftly guides us, so we see why their struggle became hers.
A stunning, heartbreaking saga... October 25, 2009
V. Dale McKinnon (Bellingham, WA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is a page-turner, stays with you and seeps into your bones after you finish the last, heartbreaking sentence. Canyon Sam quietly walks your heart into Tibet, sits you down, and opens the door to China's destruction of its culture and vast resources. It exposes China's true political intent in this world and does it, stunningly, with compassion and beauty. I have not read a book in the last ten years that has so assuredly caused me to care about someplace so far away.
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