The Soul of Tibet: Representations of Landscape in Chinese-medium Literature about Tibet from the End of the 20th Century
2010
Abstract
The article examines the representation of Tibetan landscape in Chinese and Tibetan literatures from the 1980s. Han writers have used the Tibetan landscape as a symbolic expression of the imaginary distance between themselves and Tibetans, while Tibetan authors stress the aspects that can help in an identification with the environment.
The analysis reveals the symbolic function of landscape in relation to the newly (re)constructed Tibetan identity within the context of the multiethnic China at the end of the 20th century.