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Sky Burial
by Xinran
A Chinese woman spends thirty years searching for her husband in Tibet.
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you want to understand Tibet through a Chinese woman who went to find her husband and found something larger
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In 1994 Xinran — a Chinese radio journalist — met a woman named Shu Wen who had spent thirty years searching for her husband, a Chinese military doctor who disappeared in Tibet in 1958. Xinran spent a decade reconstructing Shu Wen's story — how she followed her husband into Tibet, survived alone on the plateau, was taken in by a nomadic family, and found a kind of peace inside a culture she had been sent to assimilate. A visitor dispatch from a Chinese writer about what Tibet actually is — not through politics but through one woman's thirty-year immersion in it.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- China • East Asia
- Voice
- An outside perspective on China
- Themes
- War & Displacement
