{"id":59230,"date":"2023-10-16T13:30:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T04:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/16\/heinrich-harrer-seven-years-in-tibet-reviewed-1953"},"modified":"2023-10-16T13:30:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T04:30:30","slug":"heinrich-harrers-seven-years-in-tibet-reviewed-archive-october-1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59230","title":{"rendered":"Heinrich Harrer\u2019s Seven Years in Tibet reviewed \u2013 archive, October 1953"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>16 October 1953<\/strong>: An account of the Austrian climber\u2019s escape from a British prison in India, crossing the Himalayas to Tibet and becoming a tutor to the Dalai Lama<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seven Years in Tibet<\/strong>, By Heinrich Harrer. Hart-Davis. Pp 222, 16s. <br \/><strong>Tibet and the Tibetans<\/strong>, By Tsung-lien Shen and Shen-chi Liu. Cumberlege for Stanford University Press. Pp, x, 99, 40s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEurope wants like anything to go to Tibet; but Tibet has never evinced the slightest desire to go to Europe.\u201d This is Mr <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Fleming_(writer)\">Peter Fleming<\/a>\u2019s remark in his preface to Mr Harrer\u2019s book. Perhaps it is a good thing that the Chinese have renewed their control of Tibet. If they had not done so, travel might have become too common and the western world would have seen the mysteries fade away from its favourite land of romance. Mao Tse-tung has dropped the veil again, and has therefore made Tibet twice as alluring. Europeans may indulge their wish to overcome great hazards visiting it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/16\/heinrich-harrer-seven-years-in-tibet-reviewed-1953\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 October 1953: An account of the Austrian climber\u2019s escape from a British prison in India, crossing the Himalayas to Tibet and becoming a tutor to the Dalai LamaSeven Years in Tibet, By Heinrich Harrer. Hart-Davis. Pp 222, 16s. Tibet and the Tibetans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4010,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[511,1447,609],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-dalai-lama","category-tibet"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59231,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59230\/revisions\/59231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}