The language divide: identity and literary choices in modern Tibet.

A unique conjunction of factors during the 1980 made Lhasa an ideal place for the exhibition of a new literature. The revival of Tibetan tillage and beliefs at the extreme point of the Cultural Revolution (1966 to 1976) the eagerness of a generation of burdened intellectuals to find new ways of expression, and the coincidental gathering in Lhasa of a cluster of charismatic Tibetan and Hart intellectuals, l to the creation, for the first time in Tibetan history, of a corpus of late secular literature. (l)

Nevertheless, decades of Chinese occupation had already altered the cultural landscape of Tibet. (2) The