Seven Years in Tibet: Heinrich Harrer

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a b c d "Rolf Magener". The Telegraph. 18 May 2000. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011 . Retrieved 15 January 2012. Lhasa is far from being so completely out of the world as has been represented. When Mr Harrer arrived he found in the shops the cosmetics of Elizabeth Arden and the newest gramophone records of Bing Crosby. Smart Tibetans danced the samba and foxtrot. Did not the British Ministry of Information during the war find that the reading matter which was received most gleefully in Lhasa was the Illustrated London News?

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See Barry Sautman, “The Tibet issue in post-summit Sino-American relations”, Pacific Affairs, Vol (...)See Frank J. Korom, “Old Age Tibet New Age America”, in F. Korom (ed.), Constructing Tibetan Culture: Contemporary Perspectives, Quebec, World Heritage Press, 1997, pp.73-97. See a depiction of cinema audiences in Hao Xiaoming et Chen Yanru, « Film and Social Change: The (...)

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Is Seven Years in Tibet Based on a True Story?

John Powers gives an interesting overview of the pro-Chinese and pro-Tibet literature, and probably the most unbiased examination of their competitive narratives in the West, comparing Tibetan and Chinese works in English on the Tibetan issue. Elliot Sperling provides a comparative analysis of Tibetan and Chinese historical arguments on Tibet’s political status. Apart from these two studies, we have not found such comparative approach. John Powers, History As Propaganda: Tibetan Exiles versus the People's Republic of China, Oxford University Press, 2004. Elliot Sperling, The Tibet-China Conflict: History and Polemics, East West Center Washington, 2004. See Nicolas Notovitch, The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ, translated by J. H. Connelly and L. Landsberg, Dragon Key Press, 2002.