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Tibet documentary

China Central Television (CCTV) began airing a 5-part documentary A Year in Tibet on its Channel 1 yesterday. A Chinese book of the same title has been published by Beijing Shiyue Art Publishing House.

Director and author Sun Shuyun went to Gyantse, Tibet's third largest town, in July 2006 and spent a year filming eight ordinary Tibetans. With the support of China Tibetology Research Center, Sun and her crew from BBC followed a shaman, a village doctor, a Party official, a hotel manager, a rickshaw driver, a builder and two monks through their daily lives.