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'To read it is like seeing the scenes described' Evening
Standard
'One of the world's best travel books' Spectator 'The work remains
a classic worthy of reproduction' The Times Published to critical
acclaim and well known for many years afterwards this account of
the journey across Mongolia to Lhasa in the early nineteenth
century owes much of its success to the literary skills of its
authors, made available in English for the first time by William
Hazlitt and Paul Pelliot.
Among other topics the chapters cover: The French mission of
Peking, Tartar manners and customs, festivals, an interview with a
Tibetan Lama, the flooding of the Yellow River, Tartar veterinary
surgeons, irrigation projects, comparative studies between
Catholicism and Buddhism, war between two living Buddhas, and the
Chinese account of Tibet.
First published in 1928.
'To read it is like seeing the scenes described' Evening
Standard
'One of the world's best travel books' Spectator 'The work remains
a classic worthy of reproduction' The Times
Published to critical acclaim and well known for many years
afterwards this account of the journey across Mongolia to Lhasa in
the early nineteenth century owes much of its success to the
literary skills of its authors, made available in English for the
first time by William Hazlitt and Paul Pelliot.
Among other topics the chapters cover: The French mission of
Peking, Tartar manners and customs, festivals, an interview with a
Tibetan Lama, the flooding of the Yellow River, Tartar veterinary
surgeons, irrigation projects, comparative studies between
Catholicism and Buddhism, war between two living Buddhas, and the
Chinese account of Tibet.
'To read it is like seeing the scenes described' Evening Standard
'One of the world's best travel books' Spectator 'The work remains
a classic worthy of reproduction' The Times Published to critical
acclaim and well known for many years afterwards this account of
the journey across Mongolia to Lhasa in the early nineteenth
century owes much of its success to the literary skills of its
authors, made available in English for the first time by William
Hazlitt and Paul Pelliot. Among other topics the chapters cover:
The French mission of Peking, Tartar manners and customs,
festivals, an interview with a Tibetan Lama, the flooding of the
Yellow River, Tartar veterinary surgeons, irrigation projects,
comparative studies between Catholicism and Buddhism, war between
two living Buddhas, and the Chinese account of Tibet.
First published in 1928. 'To read it is like seeing the scenes
described' Evening Standard 'One of the world's best travel books'
Spectator 'The work remains a classic worthy of reproduction' The
Times Published to critical acclaim and well known for many years
afterwards this account of the journey across Mongolia to Lhasa in
the early nineteenth century owes much of its success to the
literary skills of its authors, made available in English for the
first time by William Hazlitt and Paul Pelliot. Among other topics
the chapters cover: The French mission of Peking, Tartar manners
and customs, festivals, an interview with a Tibetan Lama, the
flooding of the Yellow River, Tartar veterinary surgeons,
irrigation projects, comparative studies between Catholicism and
Buddhism, war between two living Buddhas, and the Chinese account
of Tibet.
Who are the people that make up London's French community and why
did they choose to leave France and settle in London? How is
'Frenchness' played out in physical and digital diasporic spaces?
And what impact has Brexit had on French Londoners' sense of
belonging, identity and embeddedness? French London offers an
unprecedented perspective on the everyday lived experience of
French migrants in London. Based on years of immersive on-land and
on-line empirical enquiry, the book uncovers the motivations
underlying mobility from France and the appeal of London as a
long-term home. Through the individual (hi)stories of a diverse
group of French Londoners and an ethnosemiotic analysis of blogs
and websites, London emerges as a place of liberation and openness,
where migrants are free from inequalities encountered in the
birthplace of l'egalite, whether in education, work or wider
society. This volume explores the messy complexity and paradoxical
ambivalence of cross-Channel mobility, including here-there,
explicit-implicit, physical-digital, subject-object and
reinvention-reproduction dichotomies. Structured around Pierre
Bourdieu's concepts of symbolic violence and habitus, the book
considers how apparently pragmatic mobility decision-making is
often underpinned by powerful social, affective and pre-reflective
factors. Its subdivision of habitus into three interrelated
components - habitat, habituation and habits - provides an
enlightening conceptual lens to examine participants' material
lifeworlds, the gradual creep of settlement, and a 'common-unity'
of practice. From schooling and healthcare to eating and drinking,
the migrants' evolving behaviours, attitudes, identities and
belongings are expertly scrutinised. Spanning pre- and post-Brexit
periods, this timely book gives voice to a largely neglected
minority and offers a linguistically and culturally sensitive
insight into French migrants' on-land trajectories and on-line
representations. -- .
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