This book lays no claim to being an objective academic treatise. It is an advocacy piece, scrupulous regarding facts, but not too concerned about giving equal time or space to China’s point of view, which, in any case, has become so unrelentingly pervasive as to be quite overwhelming. Regarding the question of objectivity itself, especially as it surfaces in most (especially academic) discussions on China, the book defers to the greater wisdom of Lu Xun, china’s premier modern writer and supreme debunker of propagandists and poseurs. He said, Whoever thinks he is objective must already be half drunk.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jamyang Norbu
Jamyang Norbu is one of Tibet's foremost writers at work today. HIs novel, the Mandala of Sherlock Holmes, won the prestigious Crossword Book Award, India's equivalent of the Booker Prize, and has been publshed in over a dozen languages. He is also the author of Warriors of Tibet and Performing Traditions of Tibet. The latter reflects his work as an ethnomusicologist and director of the Tibetan Institute of, Performing Arts. Norbu is best known for his polemical writings. the first collection of his political essays, illusion and Reality, was published in 1989. A second collection, Shadow Tibet, is to be released at the end of 2004. Norbu has also written a number of plays as well as a traditional Tibetan opera libertto. He served as a director of the Tibetan Centre for Advanced Studies (the Amnye Machen Institute), which was twice awarded the Poul Lauretzen Freedom Prize of Denmark. Norbu was a member of the Tibetan resistance movement in Mustang on the Nepal Tibet border. He currently lives in Tennessee with his wife and two Daughters.
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