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First published in 1926, this is the fascinating account of plant-hunter and explorer Frank Kingdon Ward's most important epedition. Kenneth Cox, Kenneth Storm, Jr., and Ian Baker have spent the last fifteen years retracing Ward's route.
Within a mere decade, the creation of a Tibetan medicine industry in the People's Republic of China has... Læs mere
There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine-as ideas, practices, technologies... Læs mere
Feeds into wider debates on democracy and how practises of democracy differ across communities.
It is not possible to fully understand contemporary politics between China and the Dalai Lama without understanding what happened in the 1950's. This title examines the critical years of 1955 through 1957.
Interweaves the stories of George Forrest and Joseph Francis Charles Rock, two early twentieth-century botanists and explores the collaborative relationships each formed with Yunnan villagers in gathering botanical specimens from the borderlands between China, Tibet, and Burma.
This compelling account of two British missions to Tibet in 1774 and 1904 provides a unique perspective on the... Læs mere
Documents cultural and religious sites across the Tibetan Plateau and its bordering regions from the Paleolithic and Neolithic times all the... Læs mere
In 1941, philosopher and poet Gendun Chopel (1903-51) sent a large manuscript by ship, train, and yak across mountains and deserts to his homeland in the... Læs mere