The Myth of Shangri La
Tibet, Travel Writing and the Western Creation of Sacred Landscape
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2887045 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George Woodcock (corresponding author), Peter Bishop (0000-0002-1904-4201) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 273 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2759752 |
| OpenAlex | W4300905620 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 49 |
Art · Geography · Literature · Mythology · Chinese history and philosophy · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Religious Tourism and Spaces
Experiencing Waterholes in an Arid Environment, with Particular Reference to the Lake Eyre Basin, Australia
One with the Universe
The Myth of Shangri-La and Its Counter-discourses
British Exploration in the Nineteenth Century
Touring the consumption of the Other
Ethnographic agency, field assistants and the rise of cultural activism in Nepal
Han Chinese "drifters" in Lhasa
Representations of Central Asian Ethnicities in British Literature c. 1830-1914
The Oeconomy of Human Life
Inside Shangri-La/Outside Globalisation
Little Tibet”
Victorian Travel Writers in Iceland, 1850–1880
Pondering Tibetan Buddhist Alterity in Peter Dickinson’s Tulku
(Re)imagining nationalism
The French for Shangri-La
Karaoke as Modern Lhasa, Tibet
Imagined Lives, Suffering, and the Work of Culture
Hip-Hop Gangsta or Most Deserving of Victims? Transnational Migrant Identities and the Paradox of Tibetan Racialization in the USA
Nature and gender in outback Australia
Assembling plateau urbanism through special economic zones evidence from the Tibetan Plateau, China
In Search of Authenticity off and on the Beaten Track
On the Heritage Trail
Religion as Stateless Hegemony
Bodies in High Places
I realised then how “Parisian” Egypt was’
Phantasmal destination
The search for the truest of authenticities
Media effects on image
Literary Liberation of the Tibetan Past
The “Tibet question”
Guardians of Edenic sanctuaries
Measuring the Tibetan nation
Find the river
Geographical imagination
Writing Tibet as Han Chinese sojourners
Landscapes of Little Lhasa
Photography as Event
At the Margins of Death
The Unbearable Likeness of Being a Tourist
Gendered boundaries in motion
Why is Newar Buddhism Largely Ignored in Buddhist Studies? Protestantism, the Narrative of Decline, and the Position of Invisibility
Shangri-La as a utopia, sacred place, and a prison in James Hilton’s "Lost Horizon"
Tourist Photography and the Reverse Gaze
History at Land's End
Strategic Hypocrisy
"Where Is Bhutan?" The Production of Bhutan's Asymmetrical Inbetweenness in Geopolitics
Imperial but Not Colonial
Consuming the Lama
New Trend, but Old Story
| Unique citing works | 49 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,4 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2024 (34) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |