Clare E Harris: 1 book
The Museum on the Roof of the World
Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics and the Dalai Lama as obsolete. Suggesting that...
