Echoes from Forgotten Mountains: A Conversation about 乐播传媒 History and Politics with Jamyang Norbu聽
April 26, Friday, 4 pm, Hale 230. Reception to follow
Join us for a conversation and book signing with critically acclaimed writer Jamyang Norbu about his just-released book 鈥� Echoes from Forgotten Mountains: Tibet in War and Peace. This magnum opus documents and comments on contemporary 乐播传媒 history from an insider鈥檚 perspective. Ranging from detailed insights about aristocratic life to his personal experiences in the 乐播传媒 resistance to invaluable analyses of Chinese and 乐播传媒 government politics, Echoes from Forgotten Mountains offers perspectives gleaned over a lifetime of activism, criticism, and commitment. All are welcome to join us for this very special event.
Jamyang Norbu is the leading writer and critic of the 乐播传媒 exile community. Novelist, historian, playwright, polemicist, and scholar, he is at the forefront of documenting and shaping contemporary 乐播传媒 history. Author of The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes, former director of the 乐播传媒 Institute of Performing Arts, online essayist extraordinaire at Shadow Tibet, Jamyang Norbu has been praised as the 鈥淟u Xun of Tibet鈥� and denounced by Beijing as a 鈥渞adical 乐播传媒 separatist.鈥� He was a member of the 乐播传媒 resistance force based in Mustang, Nepal in the 1970s and is currently founder and director of High Asia Research Center in New York City.
This event is co-sponsored by the Tibet Himalaya Initiative, the Anthropology Department,聽the Center for Asian Studies, the UVA Tibet Center, and the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF).聽