This book portrays the Labrang (bla brang) region in the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on the accounts and photographs of the Griebenow family, Christian missionaries in the region from 1922-1949. Additional foci are Labrang Monastery, the Alo clan that ruled Labrang in this period, and the interplay of the disparate ethnic groups in this borderland on one corner of the Tibetan plateau.(Kevin Vose 2004-03-23)