SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Some publications that may be of interest to users of THE TIBET ALBUM .

(For further information about the sources we used for this project see individual entries on the website.)

BOOKS ABOUT TIBET

Snellgrove, David and Richardson, Hugh 1968 A Cultural History of Tibet London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Stein, R. A. 1972 Tibetan Civilisation Stanford, Stanford University Press

Bishop, Peter. The Myth of Shangri-La: Tibet, Travel Writing and the Western Creation of Sacred Landscape. London: Athlone Press, 1989.

Goldstein, Melvyn. A History of Modern Tibet, 1913 - 1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Lopez, Donald. Prisoners of Shangri-la: Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Petech, Luciano. Aristocracy and Government in Tibet, 1728-1959. Rome: Instituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1973.

Taring, Rinchen Dolma (Mary). Daughter of Tibet . London: John Murray, 1970.

Waddell, Laurence Austine . The Buddhism of Tibet: or Lamaism. Cambridge: W. Heffer, 1971 [1894].

Yuthok, Dorje Yudon. House of Turquoise Roof. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1990.

BOOKS ABOUT THE BRITISH IN TIBET

MacKay, Alex. Tibet and the British Raj: The Frontier Cadre 1904 - 1947. Richmond: Curzon, 1997.

Lamb, Alastair. Tibet, China & India 1914-1950. A History of Imperial Diplomacy . Hertfordshire: Roxford Books, 1989.

Harris, Clare and Shakya, Tsering Seeing Lhasa: British Depictions of the Tibetan Capital 1936-1947 , Chicago, Serindia 2003

Candler, Edmund. The Unveiling of Lhasa. London: Edward Arnold & co., 1905.

Gould, Basil. The Jewel in the Lotus: Recollections of an Indian Political Officer. London: Chatto & Windus, 1957

French, Patrick. Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer. London: HarperCollins, 1994.

Waddell, Laurence Austine . Lhasa and its Mysteries with a record of the expedition of 1903-4. London, 1905.

Younghusband, Francis. India and Tibet . Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1985.

BOOKS AND ARTICLES ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY AND VISUAL HISTORY

Edwards, Elizabeth. “Photographs as Objects of Memory” in. Kwint, Marius, Breward, Christopher and Aynsley, Jeremy. (eds.) Material memories: Design and Evocation. Oxford: Berg, 1999.

Edwards, Elizabeth. Raw Histories: photographs, Anthropology and Museums. Oxford: Berg, 2001a.

Edwards, Elizabeth. “Photography and the performance of History” in Kronos: Journal of Cape History. 27: pp.15-29, 2001b.

Harris, Clare. In the Image of Tibet: Tibetan Painting after 1959. London: Reaktion, 1999.

Harris, Clare “Seeing Lhasa: British Photographic and Filmic Engagement with Tibet” in Seeing Lhasa: British Depictions of the Tibetan Capital 1936-1947 , Harris, Clare and Shakya, Tsering Chicago, Serindia 2003

Harris, Clare “The Photograph Reincarnate: The Dynamics of Tibetan Relationships with Photographs” in Photographs Objects Histories, Elizabeth Edwards and Janice Hart (Eds.) London, Routledge, 2004

BOOKS AND ARTICLES BY THE PHOTOGRAPHERS

Bell

Bell, Charles. Portrait of a Dalai Lama: The Life and Times of the Great Thirteenth. London: Wisdom Publications, 1987 [1946].

Bell, Charles. Manual of Colloquial Tibetan . Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1905.

Bell, Charles. The People of Tibet. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928.

Bell, Charles. The Religion of Tibet. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968 [1931].

Bell, Charles. Tibet Past and Present. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.

Bell, Charles. ‘A Year in Lhasa', Geographical Journal . Volume 63, pp.89-105, 1924.

Chapman

Spencer Chapman, Frederick. Northern Lights . London: Chatto & Windus, 1932 .

Spencer Chapman, Frederick. Watkins' Last Expedition. London: Chatto & Windus, 1934.

Spencer Chapman, Frederick. “Tibetan Horizon” in Sight and Sound Vol. 6, pp. 122 - 125. London, 1937.

Spencer Chapman, Frederick. Lhasa the Holy City . London: Chatto & Windus, 1938.

Spencer Chapman, Frederick “A Kodachrome Film of Tibet” in The Photographic Journal Vol. 78 April 262 - 266 London 1938.

Spencer Chapman, Frederick . Memoirs of a Mountaineer (combined reprint of Lhasa: The Holy City and Helvellyn to Himalaya ) . London: The Reprint Society and Chatto & Windus, 1945.

Nepean

Nepean, Evan. “The AC4YN Story - a Tibetan Adventure circa 1936-1937” in 73 Magazine. pp. 10-12, 1982

Richardson

Richardson, Hugh E. (e dited by Michael Aris) Ceremonies of the Lhasa Year. London: Serindia, 1993.

Richardson, Hugh. High Peaks, Pure Earth: Collected Writings on Tibetan History and Culture. (Edited by Michael Aris). (p.144) London: Serindia, 1998.

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