University of California Press
A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 2: The Calm Before the Storm 1951-1955
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- Melvyn C Goldstein
- University of California Press
- Paperback
- 9780520259959
- 8.9 X 6 X 1.7 inches
- 2 pounds
- History > Asia - India & South Asia
- English
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Author Bio
Dr. Goldstein is a socio-cultural anthropologist specializing in Tibetan society. His topical interest include family and marriage (polyandry), cross-cultural and global aging, population studies, cultural ecology and economic development/change. He has conducted research in Tibet (Tibet Autonomous Region of China) on a range of topics including nomadic pastoralism, the impact of economic reforms on rural Tibet, family planning and fertility, the revival of Buddhism, modern Tibetan history, and socio-economic change.
His has also conducted research in India (with Tibetan refugees), in northwest Nepal (with a Tibetan border community in Limi), in western Mongolia (with a nomadic pastoral community in Hovd province), in Kathmandu on family planning and intergenerational relations, and in eastern China on modernization and the elderly).
Dr. Goldstein’s current projects include: Editor of a large online Tibetan Oral History Archive with the Asia Division of the Library of Congress, an oral history of monks in Drepung Monastery in the traditional society, a longitudinal study of the impact of China’s reform policies on Tibetan nomads, and a study investigating modernization and changing patterns of the elderly and intergenerational relations in farming Tibet.
Source: Case Western Reserve University
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