Recounting the Past? The Contest between British Historical and New Chinese Interpretations of the Younghusband Mission to Tibet of 1904

The work of the orientalist historian has been hampered by the laudatory glare that has developed around the figure of Sir Francis Younghusband and the 1904 British ‘Mission’ to Tibet. In western writing, a revisionist approach to studying the Mission has only recently started to gather pace. Captur...

The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review

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