Duan Jianhua was born in Kunming City in southwestern China. As a child, he suffered a lack of education due to the Cultural Revolution. However, he was able to enter the Southwest University of Political Science and Law in 1979 and graduated with a law degree in 1983. After that, he volunteered to live and work in Tibet, serving as a judge in the Tibetan High Court. He left Tibet after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and worked in other jobs. He is now "outside of the system, colorless and tasteless".

A book that is at once informative, entertaining, thought-provoking and superbly artistic, describing the author's seven years of life and work in Tibet, while reflecting upon the past, present and future of this remote land.

• Book Title: Tibet: A Gaze of Seven Years
• Author: Duan Jianhua
• Publishing Date: New York: Cozy Publishing House, June 2008
• Chinese eBook Publishing Date: eBook Dynasty, June 2013
• Languages: Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese
• Chinese eBook Format: MOBI, ePUB, PDF
• Sample Reading (in Traditional Chinese)