Tibet in the Western Imagination [Hardcover]

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.Introduction 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 Bibliography IndexTOM 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.