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Dear List Members,
Just a brief reminder that our May seminar is being held
this Friday at 5.00 pm.
The presenter will be John Powers.
This month the seminar will be hosted at University of Sydney,
Room 524 Brennan Building. Please refer to
Map
(Ref 14F) for details.
We do hope you can attend
AABS Executive Committee
A War of Words: The Creation of Tibetan
Histories by the People's Republic of China and Tibetan Exiles
This talk will look at attempts by historians in the People's
Republic of China and Tibetan exiles to develop coherent
discourses relating to Tibetan history. The focus will be on the
tropes and language both sides use in their constructions and
how these are influenced by traditional and modern Chinese
historiography and Tibetan Buddhist narratives, and how their
texts function as persuasive documents aimed at changing the
minds of Western audiences. The early period of Buddhism's
dissemination in Tibet will be the centre point of this talk; I
will examine how historical figures are portrayed in the two
narratives as either Chinese patriots or devout Buddhists and
how later concerns are retrospectively projected onto the
histories of this period. | 