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> 'China's Great Train' superbly chronicles Beijing's cultural assault
> on Tibet
> By JOHN MARSHALL
> P-I BOOK CRITIC
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> Forget those romantic images of the "Forbidden City." These days,
> Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, should be called the "Globalized City."
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> The Chinese overseers of the Tibetan capital have transformed its
> quaint byways and spectacular setting with a familiar mishmash of
> block apartment complexes, wide highways, strip shopping, high-rise
> hotels, disco clubs, car dealerships and industrial parks. Immigrants
> from China have doubled Lhasa's population in a few years to 500,000
> residents. More than 70,000 private vehicles clog its streets.
> ...