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Imagining Tibet

Author : Thierry Dodin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861711912
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Tibet written by Thierry Dodin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past century, the Western view of Tibet has evolved from an exotic Shangri-la filled with golden idols and the promise of immortality, to a peaceful land with an enlightened society now ravaged by outside aggression. How and why did our perception change? How accurate are our modern conceptions of Tibet? Imagining Tibet is a collection of essays that reveal these Western conceptions. Providing an historical background to the West's ever-changing relationship with Tibet, Donald Lopez, Jeffrey Hopkins, Jamyang Norbu, and other noted scholars explore a variety of topics - from Western perceptions of Tibetan approaches to violence, monastic life, and life as a nation in exile, to representations of Tibet in Western literature, art, environmentalism, and the New Age movement.

Tibet in the Western Imagination

Author : T. Neuhaus
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137264837
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Tibet in the Western Imagination written by T. Neuhaus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neuhaus explores the roots of the long-standing European fascination with Tibet, from the Dalai Lama to the Abominable Snowman. Surveying a wide range of travel accounts, official documents, correspondence and fiction, he examines how different people thought about both Tibet and their home cultures.

Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the IATS, 2000. Volume 8: Tibet, Self, and the Tibetan Diaspora

Author : P. Christiaan Klieger
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004489452
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the IATS, 2000. Volume 8: Tibet, Self, and the Tibetan Diaspora written by P. Christiaan Klieger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten papers presented in this eight volume of the Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the IATS, 2000, provide examples of the colourful and lively range of Tibetan self-expressions that exist within the modern homeland and in exile. The scholars here represent the fields of anthropology, sociology, literary studies, history, and political science. Four papers are based in studies in the modern Tibet Autonomous Region, five are grounded in the Tibetan diaspora, and one deals with both classical Tibetan history and current affairs. The mass representation of Tibetan self, delivered through various literary vehicles, by linguistic competence, body decoration, landscape, or individual deportment, constitutes the basic theme of this collection. The volume is useful for any student of Tibet and those interested in the process of identity formation and presentation.

Reworking Postcolonialism

Author : P. Malreddy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137435933
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Reworking Postcolonialism written by P. Malreddy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary collection of essays, Reworking Postcolonialism explores questions of work, precarity, migration, minority and indigenous rights in relation to contemporary globalization. It brings together political, economic and literary approaches to texts and events from across the postcolonial world.

Mindscaping the Landscape of Tibet

Author : Dan Smyer Yü
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614519803
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Mindscaping the Landscape of Tibet written by Dan Smyer Yü and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author’s cross-regional fieldwork, archival findings, and critical reading of memoirs and creative works of Tibetans and Chinese, this book recounts how the potency of Tibet manifests itself in modern material culture concerning Tibet, which is interwoven with state ideology, politics of identity, imagination, nostalgia, forgetting, remembering, and earth-inspired transcendence. The physical place of Tibet is the antecedent point of contact for subsequent spiritual imaginations, acts of destruction and reconstruction, collective nostalgia, and delayed aesthetic and environmental awareness shown in the eco-religious acts of native Tibetans, Communist radical utopianism, former military officers’ recollections, Tibetan and Chinese artwork, and touristic consumption of the Tibetan landscape. By drawing connections between differences, dichotomies, and oppositions, this book explores the interiors of the diverse agentive modes of imaginations from which Tibet is imagined in China. On the theoretical front, this book attempts to bring forth a set of fresh perspectives on how a culturally and religiously specific landscape is antecedent to simultaneous processes of place-making, identity-making, and the bonding between place and people.

Contemporary Tibet

Author : Barry Sautman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315289997
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Tibet written by Barry Sautman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of Tibet is highly controversial, and Tibet, as a political entity, is defined differently from source to source and audience to audience. The editors of this path-breaking, multidisciplinary study have gathered some of the leading scholars in Tibetan and ethnic studies to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Tibet question. "Contemporary Tibet" explores essential themes and issues concerning modern Tibet. It presents fresh material from various political viewpoints and data from original surveys and field research. The contributors consider such topics as representations and sovereignty, economic development and political conditions, the exile movement and human rights, historical legacies and international politics, identity issues and the local society. The individual chapters provide historical background as well as a general framework to examine Tibet's present situation in world politics, the relationship with China and the West, and prospects for the future.

Sacred Tibet

Author : Philip Rawson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Tibet written by Philip Rawson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unique Tibetan Buddhist amalgam of shamanism, spiritualism, magic, and myth is explored and revealed through its stunning imagery.

The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China

Author : Dan Smyer Yu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136633758
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China written by Dan Smyer Yu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on contemporary Tibetan Buddhist revivals in the Tibetan regions of the Sichuan and Qinghai Provinces in China, this book explores the intricate entanglements of the Buddhist revivals with cultural identity, state ideology, and popular imagination of Tibetan Buddhist spirituality in contemporary China. In turn, the author explores the broader socio-cultural implications of such revivals. Based on detailed cross-regional ethnographic work, the book demonstrates that the revival of Tibetan Buddhism in contemporary China is intimately bound with both the affirming and negating forces of globalization, modernity, and politics of religion, indigenous identity reclamation, and the market economy. The analysis highlights the multidimensionality of Tibetan Buddhism in relation to different religious, cultural, and political constituencies of China. By recognizing the greater contexts of China’s politics of religion and of the global status of Tibetan Buddhism, this book presents an argument that the revival of Tibetan Buddhism is not an isolated event limited merely to Tibetan regions; instead, it is a result of the intersection of both local and global transformative changes. The book is a useful contribution to students and scholars of Asian religion and Chinese studies.

Tibet in the Western Imagination

Author : T. Neuhaus
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137264837
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Tibet in the Western Imagination written by T. Neuhaus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neuhaus explores the roots of the long-standing European fascination with Tibet, from the Dalai Lama to the Abominable Snowman. Surveying a wide range of travel accounts, official documents, correspondence and fiction, he examines how different people thought about both Tibet and their home cultures.

Historical Dictionary of Tibet

Author : John Powers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 153813022X
Total Pages : 881 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Tibet written by John Powers and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Dictionary of Tibet, Second Edition is a comprehensive resource for Tibetan history, politics, religion, major figures, prehistory and paleontology, with a primary emphasis on the modern period. It also covers the surrounding areas influenced by Tibetan religion and culture, including India, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Central Asia, and Russia. It contains a chronology, a glossary, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Tibet.

Music and Cultural Rights

Author : Andrew N. Weintraub
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252056469
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Music and Cultural Rights written by Andrew N. Weintraub and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Framing timely and pressing questions concerning music and cultural rights, this collection illustrates the ways in which music--as a cultural practice, a commercial product, and an aesthetic form--has become enmeshed in debates about human rights, international law, and struggles for social justice. The essays in this volume examine how interpretations of cultural rights vary across societies; how definitions of rights have evolved; and how rights have been invoked in relation to social struggles over cultural access, use, representation, and ownership. The individual case studies, many of them based on ethnographic field research, demonstrate how musical aspects of cultural rights play out in specific cultural contexts, including the Philippines, China, Hawaii, Peru, Ukraine, and Brazil. Contributors are Nimrod Baranovitch, Adriana Helbig, Javier F. Leon, Ana María Ochoa, Silvia Ramos, Helen Rees, Felicia Sandler, Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman, Ricardo D. Trimillos, Andrew N. Weintraub, and Bell Yung.

Geopolitical Exotica

Author : Dibyesh Anand
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452913331
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Geopolitical Exotica written by Dibyesh Anand and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geopolitical Exotica examines exoticized Western representations of Tibet and Tibetans and the debate over that land’s status with regard to China. Concentrating on specific cultural images of the twentieth century—promulgated by novels, popular films, travelogues, and memoirs—Dibyesh Anand lays bare the strategies by which “Exotica Tibet” and “Tibetanness” have been constructed, and he investigates the impact these constructions have had on those who are being represented. Although images of Tibet have excited the popular imagination in the West for many years, Geopolitical Exotica is the first book to explore representational practices within the study of international relations. Anand challenges the parochial practices of current mainstream international relations theory and practice, claiming that the discipline remains mostly Western in its orientation. His analysis of Tibet’s status with regard to China scrutinizes the vocabulary afforded by conventional international relations theory and considers issues that until now have been undertheorized in relation to Tibet, including imperialism, history, diaspora, representation, and identity. In this masterfully synthetic work, Anand establishes that postcoloniality provides new insights into themes of representation and identity and demonstrates how IR as a discipline can meaningfully expand its focus beyond the West. Dibyesh Anand is a reader in international relations at the University of Westminster, London.

Greater Tibet

Author : P. Christiaan Klieger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498506453
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Greater Tibet written by P. Christiaan Klieger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-24 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of Greater Tibet has surfaced in the political and academic worlds in recent years. It is based in the inadequacies of other definitions of what constitutes the historical and modern worlds in which Tibetan people, ideas, and culture occupy. This collection of papers is inspired by a panel on Greater Tibet held at the XIIIth meeting of the International Association of Tibet Studies in Ulaan Baatar in 2013. Participants included leading Tibet scholars, experts in international law, and Tibetan officials. Greater Tibet is inclusive of all peoples who generally speak languages from the Tibetan branch of the Tibeto-Burman family, have a concept of mutual origination, and share some common historical narratives. It includes a wide area, including peoples from the Central Asian Republics, Pakistan, India, Nepal Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, People’s Republic of China, Mongolia, Russia, and Tibetan people in diaspora abroad. It may even include practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism who are not of Tibetan origin, and Tibetan peoples who do not practice Buddhism. Most of this area corresponds to the broad expansion of Tibetan culture and political control in the 7th–9th centuries AD, and is thus many times larger than the current Tibet Autonomous Region in China—the Tibetan “culture area.” As a conceptual framework, Greater Tibet stands in contrast to Scott’s concept of Zomia for roughly the same region, a term which defines an area of highland Asia and Southeast Asia characterized by disdain for rule from distant centers, failed state formation, anarchist, and “libertarian” individual proclivities.

Reimagining Tibet

Author : Koushik Goswami
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000816281
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Reimagining Tibet written by Koushik Goswami and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how territorial, civilisational and cultural location determines one’s gaze and attitude while representing a contested space like Tibet. It analyses representations of Tibet in three novels: James Hilton’s Lost Horizon (1933), Jamyang Norbu’s The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (1999) and Kaushik Barua’s Windhorse (2013). It shows how these novels project different types of gaze — insider, outsider and insider-outsider — and explores them within the context of some contemporary Tibetan activist writers. The book also looks at Tibetan exilic writings and virtual activities of the Tibetan activists whose programmes and rhetoric counter the age-old image of the Tibetans as passive and non-violent people. It shows how activists utilise social networking as an effective platform to counter imperialist occupation of Tibet by China. It includes interviews of eight Anglophone Tibetan writers – Tenzin Tsundue, Thubten Samphel, Tsering Namgyal Khortsa, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Jamyang Norbu, Tenzin Dickie, Bhuchung D. Sonam, and an Indian writer who has written on Tibet, Kaushik Barua. Interdisciplinary, accessible and engaging, this book presents one of the first studies on how Tibet has been represented in English fiction. It will be of interest to scholars and researchers of literature, media and cultural studies, politics, history and China studies.

Museum Transformations

Author : Annie E. Coombes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119796601
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Museum Transformations written by Annie E. Coombes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MUSEUM TRANSFORMATIONS DECOLONIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATION Edited By ANNIE E. COOMBES AND RUTH B. PHILLIPS Museum Transformations: Decolonization and Democratization addresses contemporary approaches to decolonization, greater democratization, and revisionist narratives in museum exhibition and program development around the world. The text explores how museums of art, history, and ethnography responded to deconstructive critiques from activists and poststructuralist and postcolonial theorists, and provided models for change to other types of museums and heritage sites. The volume's first set of essays discuss the role of the museum in the narration of difficult histories, and how altering the social attitudes and political structures that enable oppression requires the recognition of past histories of political and racial oppression and colonization in museums. Subsequent essays consider the museum's new roles in social action and discuss experimental projects that work to change power dynamics within institutions and leverage digital technology and new media.

The International Handbooks of Museum Studies, 4 Volume Set

Author : Sharon Macdonald
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405198508
Total Pages : 2813 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The International Handbooks of Museum Studies, 4 Volume Set written by Sharon Macdonald and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 2813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Handbooks of Museum Studies is a multi-volume reference work that represents a state-of-the-art survey of the burgeoning field of museum studies. Featuring original essays by leading international museum experts and emerging scholars, readings cover all aspects of museum theory, practice, debates, and the impact of technologies. The four volumes in the series, divided thematically, offer in-depth treatment of all major issues relating to museum theory; historical and contemporary museum practice; mediations in art, design, and architecture; and the transformations and challenges confronting the museum. In addition to invaluable surveys of current scholarship, the entries include a rich and diverse panoply of examples and original case studies to illuminate the various perspectives. Unprecedented for its in-depth topic coverage and breadth of scholarship, the multi-volume International Handbooks of Museum Studies is an indispensable resource for the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society.

The Exotic Other and Negotiation of Tibetan Self

Author : Kamila Hladíková
Publisher : Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
ISBN 13 : 8024439085
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (244 download)

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Download or read book The Exotic Other and Negotiation of Tibetan Self written by Kamila Hladíková and published by Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines various representations of Tibet in Tibetan and Chinese fiction from the 1980s. With its analysis of some of the first Tibetan short stories published approximately a decade after the end of the Cultural Revolution it greatly contributes to the scholarly research of the rise of modern Tibetan literature. The image of Tibet that appears in the works of Tibetan authors is there compared with the Chinese representations of Tibet from the same period. The analysis is informed by postcolonial theories of literature and is focused mainly on the stereotypes that appear in representation of Tibet both in China and in the west. The primary aim of this study is to examine the influence of such stereotypes on Tibetan literary negoitations of their own newly reshaped identity. Studie se zabývá zobrazování Tibetu v tibetské a čínské literatuře o Tibetu z 80. let 20. století. Prostřednictvím analýzy tibetských povídek vznikajících v době počátečního formování moderní tibetské literatury po skončení kulturní revoluce mapuje samotný vznik moderní literatury v Tibetu. Obraz Tibetu, který se objevuje v dílech tibetských autorů, je zde srovnáván s vyobrazením Tibetu v díle čínských autorů tvořících ve stejném období. Analýza vycházející z postkoloniální teorie literatury se zaměřuje především na stereotypy, jež panují v zobrazování Tibetu jak v Číně, tak na Západě, a klade si za cíl posoudit, nakolik tyto stereotypy ovlivňují vlastní představy autorů o "tibetskosti", a nakolik se odrážejí v nově utvářené moderní tibetské identitě.