English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan

by Melvyn C. Goldstein

Book Overview

The liberalization of political and intellectual life in China and the rise of Tibetan exile communities throughout the world have produced a resurgence of spoken and written Tibetan. These developments, together with increasing contacts between Western scholars and Tibetans, have created a widening circle of English-speakers--in government, business, academia, and elsewhere--who need to speak or write Tibetan with precision and clarity. For these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520051572
• ISBN13: 9780520051577
• Release Date: August 1984
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 8.4" x 10.6"