Tragedy in Crimson

How the Dalai Lama Conquered the World but Lost the Battle with China

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By Tim Johnson

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Tragedy in Crimsonis award-winning journalist Tim Johnson’s extraordinary account of the cat-and-mouse game embroiling China and the Tibetan exile community over Tibet. Johnson reports from the front lines, trekking to nomad resettlements to speak with the people who guard Tibet’s slowly vanishing culture; and he travels alongside the Dalai Lama in the campaigns for Tibetan sovereignty. Johnson unpacks how China is using its economic power around the globe to assail the Free Tibet movement. By encouraging massive Chinese migration and restricting Tibetan civil rights, the Chinese are also working to dilute Tibetan culture within Tibet itself. He also takes a sympathetic but unsentimental look at the Dalai Llama, a popular figure in the West who is regarded as a failure by many of his own people. Staggering in scope, vivid and audacious in its narrative aims, Tragedy in Crimson tells the story of a people on the brink of cultural extinction and the rising nation that is quashing them.

On Sale
Feb 1, 2011
Page Count
352 pages
Publisher
Bold Type Books
ISBN-13
9781568586496

Tim Johnson

About the Author

In 1975, Dr. Timothy Johnson M.D. joined ABC News as the medical reporter and later became the “Medical Editor” of Good Morning America when the program premiered. In over three decades at ABC News, he has reported for World News Tonight, Nightline, and 20/20. He is now the ABC News Senior Medical Contributor. Dr. Johnson is the founding editor of the Harvard Medical School Health Letter and co-editor of the Harvard Medical School Health Letter Book. He is also co-editor of the book Your Good Health, co-author of Let’s Talk and author of Dr. Timothy Johnson’s On-Call Guide to Men’s Heath and Finding God in the Questions: A Personal Journey. Dr. Johnson is married with two children and three grandchildren.

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