Gazing Eastwards

Of Buddhist Monks and Revolutionaries in China, 1957

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Romila Thapar

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In 1957, renowned Indian historian Romila Thapar visited China, where, together with Sri Lankan art historian Anil de Silva, she worked at two cave sites that were the locations of Buddhist monasteries and shrines from the first millennium CE. The first site was the then lesser known Maijishan in north China, and the second was the famous site of Dunhuang on the edge of the Gobi desert in Northwest China. Now, decades later, she is supplementing the academic work that emerged from that trip with a captivating travelogue: Gazing Eastward takes readers back to midcentury China, through the observations that Thapar made in her diary during her time at the two archaeological sites and her trips there and to other sites. Traveling by train or truck, Thapar met people from throughout the country and all stations in society, from peasants on a cooperative farm to Chairman Mao himself. An enchanting document of a long-lost era, Gazing Eastward is a marvel, a richly observed work of travel writing that brings a time and a place fully to life.

Author Biography:

Romila Thapar is emeritus professor of history at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has been general president of the Indian History Congress. In 2008 she was awarded the prestigious Kluge Prize of the Library of Congress.

Release date NZ

June 24th, 2021

Author

Romila Thapar

Pages

296

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

20 color plates, 12 halftones

Dimensions

152x229x28

ISBN-13

9780857428165

Product ID

33599729

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