Shelly Bhoil is writer and research scholar and has previously taught at Delhi University and Amity University. Enrique Galvan-Alvarez is associate professor at Universidad Internacional de La Rioja-UNIR.

• Introduction Thierry DodinPart I: Strategies of Identity in Motion1. Zhangzhung, Bön, and China: The Construction of an Alternative Tibetan Historical Narrative Per Kværne2. Narratives of Becoming: Tibet-born Tibetans in DiasporaJulia Meredith Hess3. Click Here for Enlightenment: On Tibet, Hollywood, Virtual Communities, Cyberspace Discourse, and Other Matters of Representational Practice Frank J. Korom4. The Words of the Developees: Study of the Discourse of the Tibetan RefugeesThomas KauffmannPart II: Reclaiming Dispossession through Writing5. Acting and Speaking through Modern Tibetan PoetryLama Jabb6. A Tibetan Heart in a Chinese Mouth: Tsering Woeser's Notes on TibetKamila Hladíková7. Inner Emigration and Concealed Writing: Folk Literary Elements in Contemporary Fiction from TibetFranz Xaver ErhardPart III: The Political Cultures of Exile8. The Last Gift of the God-King: Narrating the Dalai Lama’s ResignationMartin A. Mills9. Exile Tibetans and the Dance of DemocracyJigme Yeshe Lama10. Who is a Pure Tibetan?: Identity, Intergenerational History, and Trauma in ExileDawa T. Lokyitsang11. Annual Commemorations and Celebrations: Negotiations of Identities in the Bonpo Settlement in DolanjiYu-Shan Liu

The book is a valuable resource for people in Tibetan studies trying to familiarize themselves with the current debates within the community. . . The book makes important connections between Tibetans in Tibet and those in exile by focusing on modes of literary and visual production and religious networks operating across this political divide. . . . This book is a careful selection of interconnected processes that shape the flows of identity in Tibet and Tibetan speaking communities.