Tibetan encounter with modernity(Pankaj Mishra)

承前*1

Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, And Beyond

Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, And Beyond

Pankaj MishraのTemptations of the West*2から;


It was evening when we drew into the town of Gyantse, the place where Tibet had first encountered the modern world, in 1903 and 1904, in the shape of invading British troops. The British claimed that the Tibetans and the Russians were conspiring against the British Empire in India and that there were Russian guns in the capital, Lhasa. This turned out to be yet another imperial self-deception, reinforced in equal measure by arrogance, paranoia, and flawed intelligence. The Tibetan government, mostly run by monks, had geopolitical ambitions only to the extent that it wished its country to be left alone by its powerful neighbors. Certainly, the small Tibetan Army possessed no Russian guns and was armed with nothing more dangerous than matchlock rifles, stones, sticks, and amulets blessed by the Dalai Lama. (p.310)
チベットがその次に対峙した近代的軍隊は末期の清朝の軍隊であった(1910年)。しかし、その翌年に辛亥革命が起こったため、チベットは暫しの独立を回復する(p.311)。
チベット関連で、NYTの記事を2つマークしておく。


SOMINI SENGUPTA “Dalai Lama Threatens to Resign” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/world/asia/19dalai.html

HOWARD W. FRENCH “In Tibetan Areas, Parallel Worlds Now Collide” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/world/asia/20tibet.html



後者の記事を読むと、漢人チベット人に向ける眼差しは、日本人(或いは西側の人間)が中国に向ける眼差しとパラレルであることがわかる。前者の記事に関して、http://ameblo.jp/osamuari/entry-10081375480.htmlもマークしておく。
それから、チベットに関して、上海でMarie So(香港人)とCarol Chyau(台湾人)という人が運営するShokayという会社*3がsocial entrepreneurとして青海省のヤクを使った製品をブランド化していることが紹介されていた*4