“The Train Now Stops at the Roof of the World”
Tibet in the 21st Century

China’s Modernization & Tibetan Traditions,
with Dr. Tsering Shakya

Tsering Shakya is a world renowned and widely published scholar, on both historic and contemporary Tibet. His most expansive work to date The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947 (Pimlico, London 1999) was acclaimed as “the definitive history of modern Tibet” by The New York Times, and "a prodigious work of scholarship” by the UK’s Sunday Telegraph.

Dr. Shakya has has a Ph.D. in Tibetan Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. As an independent consultant and widely respected analyst, he has addressed the European parliament and is regularly invited to advise Western governments on Tibet/China policy. He is currently engaged in a major research project on the shift in use of the Tibetan language, and how contemporary literature is used as a voice of resistance in present-day Tibet.

Dr. Shakya will consider the effect of China’s modernization on the development and preservation of Tibetan traditions.

WHEN	Wednesday, April 25, 7-8:30PM
WHERE	PSU Smith Memorial Union Room 338 SW Broadway & SW Harrison St.
COST	Free

Sponsored by the Northwest China Council,
The Institute for Asian Studies at PSU, the NW Tibetan Cultural Assoc.
and The Oregon Council for the Humanities