Tibet in the Western Imagination

by Neuhaus, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780230299702
• ISBN10: 0230299709
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-09-04
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Tom Neuhaus is a lecturer in History at the University of Derby, UK. He has previously worked at the German Historical Institute, London, UK; Clare College Cambridge, UK; and the Global Policy Institute, London Metropolitan University, UK. 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	p. vi
Acknowledgements	p. vii
List of Abbreviations	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Representations, 1853-1904
Lifting the Veil	p. 23
Ethnography, Knowledge and Orientalism	p. 38
Missionaries and the Evils of 'Lamaism'	p. 52
Science and Exploration	p. 68
Representations, 1904-1947
Developing Diplomacy	p. 85
Racial and Social Orders	p. 102
From Religion to Spirituality	p. 121
Mountains and Men	p. 143
Legacies, 1947-1959
Coping with Loss	p. 167
Conclusion and Epilogue	p. 189
Notes	p. 204
Bibliography	p. 237
Index	p. 261
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