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China’s Great Train by Abraham Lustgarten Beijing's drive west Campaign to remak
Chinas Great Train by Abraham Lustgarten
Chinas Great Train
Abraham Lustgarten
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
305 Pages
Copyright 2008
Beijing's drive west and the campaign to remake Tibet
Contents
PART I. A FIFTY-YEAR AMBITION
1. Now Is the Time3
2. A Sometime Buddhist25
3. A Bigger Stage47
4. Stray Dogs70
PART II. GO WEST
5. Moving Heaven and Earth99
6. Free Tibet116
7. Under a Han Sun143
8. The Gambler160
PART III. TREASURE HOUSE
9. The Race to Reach Lhasa185
10. Paradise Rebuilt205
11. When the Wang Family Came to Town229
12. Hu's West252
Epilogue274
Notes279
Bibliography289
Acknowledgments294
Index297
A vivid account of China's unstoppable quest to build a railway into Tibet, and the country's obsession to transform its land and its people
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