Mindscaping the landscape of Tibet : place, memorability, ecoaesthetics / Dan Smyer Yü.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smyer Yü, Dan, author.

Series:

Religion and society (Hague, Netherlands) ; volume 60.

Religion and society ; volume 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tibet Region--Public opinion.

Tibet Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Based on the author’s cross-regional fieldwork, archival findings, and critical reading of memoirs and creative works of Tibetans and Chinese, this book recounts how the potency of Tibet manifests itself in modern material culture concerning Tibet, which is interwoven with state ideology, politics of identity, imagination, nostalgia, forgetting, remembering, and earth-inspired transcendence. The physical place of Tibet is the antecedent point of contact for subsequent spiritual imaginations, acts of destruction and reconstruction, collective nostalgia, and delayed aesthetic and environmental awareness shown in the eco-religious acts of native Tibetans, Communist radical utopianism, former military officers’ recollections, Tibetan and Chinese artwork, and touristic consumption of the Tibetan landscape. By drawing connections between differences, dichotomies, and oppositions, this book explores the interiors of the diverse agentive modes of imaginations from which Tibet is imagined in China. On the theoretical front, this book attempts to bring forth a set of fresh perspectives on how a culturally and religiously specific landscape is antecedent to simultaneous processes of place-making, identity-making, and the bonding between place and people.

Contents:

Introduction: Placiality of Tibet

Geopoetics of place, gods, and people in Sambha

Confessions of an inner liberation

Memorability of place among anti-traditionalists

Touching the skin of modern Tibet in the New Tibetan Cinema

Ensouling the mountain

Drifting in the mirages of the Tibetan landscape

Conclusion: Mindscaping Tibetophilia.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781614515623

161451562X

9781614519805

1614519803

9781614514237

1614514232

OCLC:

909907756