<div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<div>Yasmin Cho discusses her new book, <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i>Politics of Tranquility:
The Material and Mundane Lives of Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao Tibet </i>today on the CaMP blog.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="goog_275934206"><br></a></span></div><div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><a href="http://www.campanthropology.org">www.campanthropology.org</a></span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Best, </font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Ilana</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Press blurb: </font><span style="color:rgb(74,74,74);font-family:FreightSans,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.27px">Yasmin Cho's book challenges two assumptions about Tibetan Buddhist communities in China. First, against the assumption that a Buddhist monastic community is best understood in terms of its esoteric qualities, Cho focuses on the material and mundane daily practices that are indispensable to the existence and persistence of such a community and shows how deeply gendered these practices are. Second, against the assumption that Tibetan politics toward the Chinese state is best understood as rebellious, incendiary, and centered upon Tibetan victimhood, the nuns demonstrate how it can be otherwise. Tibetan politics can be unassuming, calm, and self-contained and yet still have substantial political effects. As</span><em style="color:rgb(74,74,74);font-family:FreightSans,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.27px"> Politics of Tranquility</em><span style="color:rgb(74,74,74);font-family:FreightSans,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.27px"> shows, the nuns in Yachen Gar have called forth an alternative way of living and expressing themselves as Tibetans and as female monastics despite a repressive context.</span></div></div>