title: A Strange Liberation: Tibetan Lives in Chinese Hands
author:  David Patt 
description: Patt sets the stage by detailing the many factors that distinguish Tibet from China--geographical, ethnic, historical, linguistic, cultural, and religious. He then proceeds to examine the Chinese subjugation of Tibet from 1949, when the Chinese Communist army rolled into the country. The bulk of the book, however, consists of the testimony of two Tibetan survivors. Ama Adhe spent more than 25 years in prison and work camps, separated from her children. Tenpa Soepa, a participant in the 1959 uprising against the Chinese, was a prisoner for about 20 years. Their graphic stories portray torture, persecution, and starvation of near-genocidal proportions--as well as remarkable religious faith, strength, and will. This is an important account of a tragedy too little known and too often ignored by the outside world.<br /><i>- Kenneth W. Berger, Duke Univ. Lib., Durham, N.C.</i><br />Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  **Water Touching Stone  
  
  
    
  
  
  Eliot Pattison**  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  **St. Martin's Minotaur**  
  
  
  New York  
  
  
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  WATER TOUCHING STONE. Copyright © 2001 by Eliot Pattison.
  
  
  
  
  
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  ISBN 0-312-70178-0
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Also by Eliot Pattison  
  
  
    
  
  
  _The Skull Mantra_  
  
  
    
    
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  To Barbara  
  
  
  **Acknowledgments**
  
  
  
  
  
  For insights, information, and inspiration about life in the lands encompassed
  by modern China, I am indebted to the many Tibetans, Kazakhs, Uighurs, and
  Chinese who have quietly shared their stories with me during the past two
  decades. For reasons that should be obvious, they must remain anonymous. For
  their steadfas