Alai’s The Mountain Stairway: A Grassroots Conception of Tibet

It seems that the current literature regarding Tibet is quite impoverished as a true cultural indicator of the region and its people. The West writes of Tibet as an exotic solution to its own malaise, or as the last refuge of Hermetic wisdom. The Han Chinese have used Tibet as a muse and as an antid...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: David Duckler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2010-04-01
Series:The ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts
Online Access:http://www.asianetworkexchange.org/articles/211