Tibet in the Western Imagination

by T. Neuhaus

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230299702
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/07/2012
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.70(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

TOM NEUHAUS is a lecturer in History at the University of Derby, UK. He has previously worked at the German Historical Institute London, Clare College Cambridge, UK, and the Global Policy Institute. He has carried out research and published on German attitudes towards Western spirituality, transnational missionary communities and on British and German travel to Tibet.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vi

Acknowledgements vii

List of Abbreviations ix

Introduction 1

Part I Representations, 1853-1904

1 Lifting the Veil 23

2 Ethnography, Knowledge and Orientalism 38

3 Missionaries and the Evils of 'Lamaism' 52

4 Science and Exploration 68

Part II Representations, 1904-1947

5 Developing Diplomacy 85

6 Racial and Social Orders 102

7 From Religion to Spirituality 121

8 Mountains and Men 143

Part III Legacies, 1947-1959

9 Coping with Loss 167

Conclusion and Epilogue 189

Notes 204

Bibliography 237

Index 261