Seeing Lhasa
Subtitle: British Depictions of the Tibetan Capital, 1936-1947
Contributors: Clare Harris (Editor); Tsering Shakya (Editor)
Publisher: Serindia Publications
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781932476040
Subjects: Cultural studies; Photographic reportage; Social history; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Second World War, 1939-1945; History; History - General History; History: World; Tibet; Asia - Tibet; World - General; 20th century; British; China; Exhibitions; Historiography; Lhasa; Photography in anthropology; Photography in historiography
First sentence: In what is probably the most famous fictionalised account of British colonialism, Rudyard Kipling's eponymous hero Kim begins his journey of self-discovery in the company of a Tibetan monk.