Tibetan Studies in Comparative Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780415634847 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 176 str.

Chih-Yu Shih; Yu-Wen Chen

Opis

Politics, history, and religion have long lent Tibet a glamorous air, particularly in the West. But Tibet can be understood in an astonishingly wide variety of other ways, including linguistic, ecological, environmental and climatological, geographical, geological, economic, biologic, sociologic, medicinal. This book touches on all the elements of the Tibet issue.This book was published as two special issues of Asian Ethnicity

Spis treści

Section 1: Introduction  1. The tale of a (un-)contested people: the many faces of Tibetans and Tibetan studies  Section 2: The "what" and "why" of Tibetan Studies  2. Tibet studies  3. Tibetology in contemporary China: current situation and characteristics  4. Tibet studies in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore  Section 3: The Tibet question  5. Tibet as a factor impacting China studies in India  6. India, China and Tibet: fundamental perceptions from Dharamsala, Beijing and New Delhi  7. A ‘realist’ hypocrisy? Scripting sovereignty in Sino–Tibetan relations and the changing posture of Britain and the United States  8. The Tibet question through the looking glass of Taiwan: comparative dynamics and sobering lessons  Section 4: Tibetans outside Tibet  9. China’s many Tibets: Diqing as a model for ‘development with Tibetan characteristics?’  10. Dispersal to Asia, Europe, Australasia  11. When ‘exile’ becomes sedentary: on the quotidian experiences of ‘India-born’ Tibetans in Dharamsala, north India

O autorze

Chih-Yu Shih teaches at National Taiwan University and is author of Civilization, Nation and Modernity in East Asia (Routledge, 2012); Autonomy, Ethnicity and Poverty in Southwestern China (Palgrave, 2007); Negotiating Ethnicity in China: Citizenship as a Response to the State (Routledge, 2002). Yu-Wen Chen teaches at the University College Cork and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Human Security at La Trobe University.