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Tibet in the Western imagination

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Tibet in the Western imaginationTom Neuhaus.
Author:	Neuhaus, Tom.
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2012.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 264 p.) :ill., maps.
Subject:	Public opinionHistory.Great Britain
Subject:	Tibet Autonomous Region (China)Foreign public opinion, British.
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9781137264831 (electronic bk.)

Tibet in the Western imagination
Neuhaus, Tom.

Tibet in the Western imagination[electronic resource] /Tom Neuhaus. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2012. - 1 online resource (ix, 264 p.) :ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Representations, 1853-1904 -- Lifting the veil -- Knowledge, Ethnography and Orientalism -- Missionaries and the Evils of "Lamaism" -- Science and Exploration -- Part II. Representations, 1904-1947 -- Developing Diplomacy -- Racial and Social Orders -- From Religion to Spirituality -- Mountains and Men -- Part III. Legacies, 1947-1959 -- Coping with "loss" : Tibet after 1947 -- Conclusion and Epilogue.

Tibet in the Western Imagination offers a highly readable account of Western writings about Tibet and the Himalayas from the mid-nineteenth century onwards, situating them within a transnational framework. Focusing on British and German sources, it examines how Tibet became a blank canvas on which Europeans could paint their fantasies and fears about developments in the West and across the globe. Comments on the 'forbidden city' of Lhasa, the Dalai Lama, mountaineering on the 'roof of the world' and on ordinary Tibetans often explicitly revealed their authors' thoughts about much wider issues. In the late nineteenth century many travellers were convinced of the superiority of Western rationalism, courage and Christianity. This changed rapidly during the 1920s and 1930s, as they wrote much more frequently about the negative aspects of Western 'civilization', such as modern warfare, urbanization and environmental degradation. Tibet, in turn, began to be represented as a place of great wisdom and truth.

ISBN: 9781137264831 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 9786613900661

Source: 507103Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Public opinion
--History.--Great BritainSubjects--Geographical Terms:

584536
Tibet Autonomous Region (China)
--Foreign public opinion, British.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: DS786 / .N455 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 951/.5

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