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Like alternate worlds in science fiction, two distinct Tibets co-exist these days. One flourishes in the light of celebrity patronage, museum openings, academic opportunities, pop spirituality and New Age fashions. This is the Tibet that has captured the romantic fantasy of the West and which has drawn much of the interest that the Tibet issue receives at the moment. Here, the problems of Tibet: the nation of the Tibetans, is nowhere as relevant or important as ...
Now available in paperback ,this winner of the Crossword Book Award for fiction 2000, is an exciting, often humorous detective story of the adventures of the great detective in India and Tibet. In 1891, a horrified British public learnt that Sherlock Holmes - in a last deadly struggle with the arch criminal Professor Moriarty - has perished at the Reichenbach falls in Switzerland. Two years later popular demand made Conan Doyle resurrect the great detective. ...
This book lays no claim to being an objective academic treatise. It is an advocacy piece, scrupulous regarding facts, but not too concerned about giving equal time or space to China's point of view, which, in any case, has become so unrelentingly pervasive as to be quite overwhelming. Regarding the question of objectivity itself, especially as it surfaces in most (especially academic) discussions on China, the book defers to the greater wisdom of Lu Xun, china's ...