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A Year in Tibet by Shuyun Sun

This book is written by a Chinese documentary director who made the programmes and lived in Tibetan community for a year to do so, and who wrote this book is clear that her project is anthropological.

Chapter seven Tibetan wedding The parents of Zhongga come to Mage Cidan to ask that whether or not the marriage of their daughter and a school-age young boy is suitable. They put all of their trust in Mage and pray for a good result.

The bride will only be told she is getting married on her wedding day and that she will probably have to marry the groom’s school-age younger brother because traditionally most Tibetan brothers share their wives in a very literal fashion.

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-Between Being - Olle Lundin
+A Year in Tibet by Shuyun Sun
-Between Being is a set of video installations about new interactive work researches the weird community’s use of hashtags in the online world. This project created by Olle Lundin.
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-There are three TV sets hanging regularly on the wall with three cameras on the top of them. It shows the new data from online platform responses and identifies the body standing in front of the camera. The artist is inspirited by the habit of people nowadays using language and categorizations to define the world and to communicate with ourselves and others. The digital world provides more possibilities for people to share, change and re-interpreted rapidly, so there is a space for new vocabularies, for identifying ourselves and for understanding others.
+This book is written by a Chinese documentary director who made the programmes and lived in Tibetan community for a year to do so, and who wrote this book is clear that her project is anthropological.
+Chapter seven
+Tibetan wedding
+The parents of Zhongga come to Mage Cidan to ask that whether or not the marriage of their daughter and a school-age young boy is suitable. They put all of their trust in Mage and pray for a good result.
+The bride will only be told she is getting married on her wedding day and that she will probably have to marry the groom’s school-age younger brother because traditionally most Tibetan brothers share their wives in a very literal fashion.