Blessings from Beijing

Bruno helps us understand the hopes and aspirations of this people, and as well as what could be lost if China has its way.

Blessings from Beijing will inform readers who know little about Tibet, and those who know a great deal will discover more. Both groups will be surprised.

Blessings from Beijing is essential reading for its digging deep into the strengths and weaknesses of the exile Tibetans.

A highly informative journalistic work. . . . The book . . . provides a valuable, up-close perspective from the viewpoint of Tibetan exiles to reveal the extent of China’s ambitious and ruthless determination to hold its unitary state together and the heavy tolls this determination exacts on those deemed in opposition. . . . Highly recommended.

Amazing. Very well written and really fascinating. A tragic and extremely important topic, for what it says not just about Tibet, but also about how China uses its power.

With a novelist’s gift for rendering scenes with clarity and nuance, Blessings from Beijing documents the emerging tragedy of Tibet’s exiles who have been flung to the far corners of the globe as a stateless people by China’s brutal and ongoing decimation of Tibet. Bruno is a deeply empathetic narrator who has immersed himself in the Tibetan diaspora community for over a decade and the results of his knowledge and profound understanding of the situation have led to a remarkable book that represents an important contribution to the literature on Tibet after the Chinese invasion.

Blessings from Beijing examines what will happen to Tibet and the Tibetan people when the Dalai Lama is no longer with them. Subject to a divide and rule policy orchestrated by Beijing, both in cyberspace and in the real world, and victim to falling birth rates far below the replacement rate, which is exacerbated by migration to the West, will the exile Tibetan community in South Asia be able to sustain its present political and cultural cohesion? This will be the most pressing challenge for the new generations of Tibetans, both in Tibet and in exile. Greg Bruno examines this question with years of research among Tibetan refugees in India and Nepal, and answers it with clarity, insight, and empathy. Blessings from Beijing constitutes essential reading for all those concerned about the fate of Tibet in a post-Dalai Lama world.