Mindscaping the Landscape of Tibet : : Place, Memorability, Ecoaesthetics / / Dan Smyer Yü.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Smyer Yü, Dan,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Religion and Society , 60
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (257 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter One. Introduction: Placiality of Tibet -- Chapter Two. Geopoetics of place, gods, and people in Sambha (སཾ་བྷ།) -- Chapter Three. Confessions of an Inner Liberation -- Chapter Four. Memorability of place among anti-traditionalists -- Chapter Five. Touching the skin of modern Tibet in the New Tibetan Cinema -- Chapter Six. Ensouling the Mountain -- Chapter Seven. Drifting in the Mirages of the Tibetan Landscape -- Chapter Eight. Conclusion – Mindscaping Tibetophilia -- References -- Index