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Tibetan Lives: Three Himalayan Autobiographies
By: Peter Richardus

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Author: Peter Richardus
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 070071023X

Product Code: 12884

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In the early years of the twentieth century, control over Tibet was contested by three major empires: China, Russia and Britain. The imperial powers and those who came in their wake - missionaries, scholars, traders and soldiers - employed local staff to assist in their dealings with Tibetans, and these employees were in the vanguard of Tibet's encounter with the outside world. Yet they have been largely forgotten by history and most of the knowledge and understandings they gained have been lost.
It was left to a Dutchman, Johan van Manen, and hence an outside observer of the British imperiaol system, to preserve the impressions of three who served on the periphery of the imperial system. The autobiographies that make up this book, crowded with ethnographical, sociological and historico-religious data, offer a unique insight into the world of the intermediary class. In addition to being interesting and entertaining, they are an important contribution to our understanding of the history of Tibet and its opening up to cultures beyond its own.

Tibetan Lives: Three Himalayan Autobiographies, Peter Richardus, RoutledgeCurzon, Hardcover, 223 pages, $114.95.

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