Tibet in the Western imagination[ele...
Neuhaus, Tom.

 

  • Tibet in the Western imagination[electronic resource] /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 951/.5
    書名/作者: Tibet in the Western imagination/ Tom Neuhaus.
    作者: Neuhaus, Tom.
    出版者: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2012.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (ix, 264 p.) : : ill., maps.
    標題: Public opinion - History. - Great Britain
    標題: Public opinion - History. - Germany
    標題: Travelers' writings, British - History and criticism.
    標題: Travelers' writings, German - History and criticism.
    標題: HISTORY / Asia / China
    標題: Tibet Autonomous Region (China) - Foreign public opinion, British.
    ISBN: 9781137264831 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 1137264837 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9780230299702 (Cloth)
    ISBN: 0230299709 (Cloth)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: 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.
    摘要、提要註: 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.
    電子資源: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
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