AHP 31: The Lost World of Ladakh: Early Photographic Journeys through Indian Himalaya, 1931-1934
... more AHP 31: The Lost World of Ladakh: Early Photographic Journeys through Indian Himalaya, 1931-1934 By Rupert Wilmot, Roger Bates, and Nicky Harman, with a Foreword by Khenpo K. Rangdol, President of Tserkarmo Monastery, Ladakh, India.
The Lost World of Ladakh is a superb collection of 150 black-and-white photographs of 1930s Ladakh, capturing its final days as a hub of trade routes between Tibet and Kashmir, India and Yarkand. These portraits of people, landscapes and Buddhist ceremonies taken by amateur photographer Rupert Wilmot, are notable for their careful composition, fine detail and engaging informality. They have been meticulously researched and captioned by Nicky Harman and Roger Bates, respectively, niece and nephew of Rupert Wilmot, and include maps, an introduction and a bibliography. Of considerable historical and ethnographic interest.
What other writers have said about The Lost World of Ladakh:
“A wonderfully elegaic set of photographs recording a lost world: an almost mediaeval Ladakh untouched by modernity and still living at the hub of the old trans-Himalayan trade routes, a timeless Central Asia where soot writing boards, itinerant monks, arcane astrologers, masked dancers and elaborate turquoise headdresses were still common. These skillfully restored photographs make me ache to cross again the snowy heights of the Zoji-la and to re-visit this most fascinating region to see what is left.” William Dalrymple, author of Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
“Rupert Wilmot’s pictures are a delight. The monastery images include a spectacular set of the religious dance-drama at Hemis. There is also a visual record of the trades that lifted so many of Ladakh's villagers above the poverty level: the bustle in Leh Bazaar, the interior of a serai, and caravans of sheep, donkeys and ponies. Perhaps the book’s most outstanding feature is the series of portraits of Wilmot’s fellow-travellers and other Ladakhis, most of them in relaxed and cheerful mode, rather than posing stiffly.” Dr Janet Rizvi, writer and historian of Ladakh, Kashmir and the western Himalaya
“These illustrations, superb as photographs in their own right, capture in visual form the essence of Ladakhi life as it was in the 1930s. While the Ladakh pictured here is in many ways gone, its legacy lives on in the distinctive culture of present-day Ladakh, which cannot be fully appreciated without a knowledge of its history. In this book we have a unique and vital contribution to that history.” Dr Philip Denwood, Emeritus Reader in Tibetan Studies, SOAS, University of London
Claude Rupert Trench Wilmot (1897-1961) was a British army officer stationed in India during the 1930s, and a talented amateur photographer.
Nicky Harman translates Chinese literature, and was formerly a lecturer at Imperial College London.
Roger Bates digitized the photographs. A retired engineer, he has many years of experience working in digital photography.
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The Journal of Specialised Translation, Jan 1, 2010
There is a new flowering of Chinese translation theory, as exemplified in the Chinese Translation... more There is a new flowering of Chinese translation theory, as exemplified in the Chinese Translation Journal (published in Chinese) and numerous English-language papersthe Translation Studies Abstracts/Bibliography of Translation Studies has an extensive list of these. Yet there is ...
Western translation theorists have written very little on Chinese to English literary translation... more Western translation theorists have written very little on Chinese to English literary translation. This article proposes that this is a gap waiting to be filled - that the choices facing translators wishing to make Chinese fiction readable in English are different both qualitatively and quantitatively from those facing English translators from most other European languages. I argue that any examination of Chinese and English literary language from the translator's point of view needs to start from the very structure of the language, and that there is a continuum of differences which encompass a broad spectrum of features of style and even of literary conventions. In this article, I look at how theories of translation across cultures can shed light on this process and at strategies adopted by other Chinese to English literary translators.
"The lost world of Ladakh: reclaiming the past, sustaining the future" - event in London, 24 Oct... more "The lost world of Ladakh: reclaiming the past, sustaining the future" - event in London, 24 October 2014, 5:30-8:30pm at the Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London. To register, go here: http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Lost-world-of-Ladakh …
AHP 31: The Lost World of Ladakh: Early Photographic Journeys through Indian Himalaya, 1931-1934
... more AHP 31: The Lost World of Ladakh: Early Photographic Journeys through Indian Himalaya, 1931-1934 By Rupert Wilmot, Roger Bates, and Nicky Harman, with a Foreword by Khenpo K. Rangdol, President of Tserkarmo Monastery, Ladakh, India.
The Lost World of Ladakh is a superb collection of 150 black-and-white photographs of 1930s Ladakh, capturing its final days as a hub of trade routes between Tibet and Kashmir, India and Yarkand. These portraits of people, landscapes and Buddhist ceremonies taken by amateur photographer Rupert Wilmot, are notable for their careful composition, fine detail and engaging informality. They have been meticulously researched and captioned by Nicky Harman and Roger Bates, respectively, niece and nephew of Rupert Wilmot, and include maps, an introduction and a bibliography. Of considerable historical and ethnographic interest.
What other writers have said about The Lost World of Ladakh:
“A wonderfully elegaic set of photographs recording a lost world: an almost mediaeval Ladakh untouched by modernity and still living at the hub of the old trans-Himalayan trade routes, a timeless Central Asia where soot writing boards, itinerant monks, arcane astrologers, masked dancers and elaborate turquoise headdresses were still common. These skillfully restored photographs make me ache to cross again the snowy heights of the Zoji-la and to re-visit this most fascinating region to see what is left.” William Dalrymple, author of Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
“Rupert Wilmot’s pictures are a delight. The monastery images include a spectacular set of the religious dance-drama at Hemis. There is also a visual record of the trades that lifted so many of Ladakh's villagers above the poverty level: the bustle in Leh Bazaar, the interior of a serai, and caravans of sheep, donkeys and ponies. Perhaps the book’s most outstanding feature is the series of portraits of Wilmot’s fellow-travellers and other Ladakhis, most of them in relaxed and cheerful mode, rather than posing stiffly.” Dr Janet Rizvi, writer and historian of Ladakh, Kashmir and the western Himalaya
“These illustrations, superb as photographs in their own right, capture in visual form the essence of Ladakhi life as it was in the 1930s. While the Ladakh pictured here is in many ways gone, its legacy lives on in the distinctive culture of present-day Ladakh, which cannot be fully appreciated without a knowledge of its history. In this book we have a unique and vital contribution to that history.” Dr Philip Denwood, Emeritus Reader in Tibetan Studies, SOAS, University of London
Claude Rupert Trench Wilmot (1897-1961) was a British army officer stationed in India during the 1930s, and a talented amateur photographer.
Nicky Harman translates Chinese literature, and was formerly a lecturer at Imperial College London.
Roger Bates digitized the photographs. A retired engineer, he has many years of experience working in digital photography.
Page 1. --^^m mi <^fr^M& Banished! HAN DONG a novel 1>/ /Si /~-... more Page 1. --^^m mi <^fr^M& Banished! HAN DONG a novel 1>/ /Si /~-rJ U? TRANSLATED BY NICKY HARMAN 7/16/09 1:40:53 PM Page 2. Banished! Page 3. ... Page 4. Banished! Han Dong Translated by Nicky Harmon m University of Hawai'i Press HONOLULU Page 5. ...
The Journal of Specialised Translation, Jan 1, 2010
There is a new flowering of Chinese translation theory, as exemplified in the Chinese Translation... more There is a new flowering of Chinese translation theory, as exemplified in the Chinese Translation Journal (published in Chinese) and numerous English-language papersthe Translation Studies Abstracts/Bibliography of Translation Studies has an extensive list of these. Yet there is ...
Western translation theorists have written very little on Chinese to English literary translation... more Western translation theorists have written very little on Chinese to English literary translation. This article proposes that this is a gap waiting to be filled - that the choices facing translators wishing to make Chinese fiction readable in English are different both qualitatively and quantitatively from those facing English translators from most other European languages. I argue that any examination of Chinese and English literary language from the translator's point of view needs to start from the very structure of the language, and that there is a continuum of differences which encompass a broad spectrum of features of style and even of literary conventions. In this article, I look at how theories of translation across cultures can shed light on this process and at strategies adopted by other Chinese to English literary translators.
"The lost world of Ladakh: reclaiming the past, sustaining the future" - event in London, 24 Oct... more "The lost world of Ladakh: reclaiming the past, sustaining the future" - event in London, 24 October 2014, 5:30-8:30pm at the Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London. To register, go here: http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Lost-world-of-Ladakh …
Ou Ning on his career as a poet and filmmaker– translated by Nicky Harman. This is the third piec... more Ou Ning on his career as a poet and filmmaker– translated by Nicky Harman. This is the third piece in a series of four translations of long creative non-fiction essays that first appeared in Chinese in OWMagazine 单读, translated in collaboration with Read Paper Republic. https://chinachannel.org/2018/09/28/letter-to-my-mother/
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By Rupert Wilmot, Roger Bates, and Nicky Harman, with a Foreword by Khenpo K. Rangdol, President of Tserkarmo Monastery, Ladakh, India.
The Lost World of Ladakh is a superb collection of 150 black-and-white photographs of 1930s Ladakh, capturing its final days as a hub of trade routes between Tibet and Kashmir, India and Yarkand. These portraits of people, landscapes and Buddhist ceremonies taken by amateur photographer Rupert Wilmot, are notable for their careful composition, fine detail and engaging informality. They have been meticulously researched and captioned by Nicky Harman and Roger Bates, respectively, niece and nephew of Rupert Wilmot, and include maps, an introduction and a bibliography. Of considerable historical and ethnographic interest.
The volume is available as an at-cost hard copy (28.29USD):
http://www.lulu.com/shop/roger-bates-and-nicky-harman-and-rupert-wilmot/ahp-31-the-lost-world-of-ladakh-early-photographic-journeys-in-indian-himalaya/paperback/product-21733172.html
…and as a free download:
http://plateauculture.org/sites/plateauculture.org/files/writing/lost-world-ladakh-early-photographic-journeys-indian-himalaya.pdf
…with an additional appendix:
http://plateauculture.org/writing/appendix-lost-world-ladakh
What other writers have said about The Lost World of Ladakh:
“A wonderfully elegaic set of photographs recording a lost world: an almost mediaeval Ladakh untouched by modernity and still living at the hub of the old trans-Himalayan trade routes, a timeless Central Asia where soot writing boards, itinerant monks, arcane astrologers, masked dancers and elaborate turquoise headdresses were still common. These skillfully restored photographs make me ache to cross again the snowy heights of the Zoji-la and to re-visit this most fascinating region to see what is left.” William Dalrymple, author of Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
“Rupert Wilmot’s pictures are a delight. The monastery images include a spectacular set of the religious dance-drama at Hemis. There is also a visual record of the trades that lifted so many of Ladakh's villagers above the poverty level: the bustle in Leh Bazaar, the interior of a serai, and caravans of sheep, donkeys and ponies. Perhaps the book’s most outstanding feature is the series of portraits of Wilmot’s fellow-travellers and other Ladakhis, most of them in relaxed and cheerful mode, rather than posing stiffly.” Dr Janet Rizvi, writer and historian of Ladakh, Kashmir and the western Himalaya
“These illustrations, superb as photographs in their own right, capture in
visual form the essence of Ladakhi life as it was in the 1930s. While the Ladakh pictured here is in many ways gone, its legacy lives on in the distinctive culture of present-day Ladakh, which cannot be fully
appreciated without a knowledge of its history. In this book we have a
unique and vital contribution to that history.” Dr Philip Denwood, Emeritus Reader in Tibetan Studies, SOAS, University of London
Claude Rupert Trench Wilmot (1897-1961) was a British army officer
stationed in India during the 1930s, and a talented amateur photographer.
Nicky Harman translates Chinese literature, and was formerly a lecturer at Imperial College London.
Roger Bates digitized the photographs. A retired engineer, he has many years of experience working in digital photography.
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By Rupert Wilmot, Roger Bates, and Nicky Harman, with a Foreword by Khenpo K. Rangdol, President of Tserkarmo Monastery, Ladakh, India.
The Lost World of Ladakh is a superb collection of 150 black-and-white photographs of 1930s Ladakh, capturing its final days as a hub of trade routes between Tibet and Kashmir, India and Yarkand. These portraits of people, landscapes and Buddhist ceremonies taken by amateur photographer Rupert Wilmot, are notable for their careful composition, fine detail and engaging informality. They have been meticulously researched and captioned by Nicky Harman and Roger Bates, respectively, niece and nephew of Rupert Wilmot, and include maps, an introduction and a bibliography. Of considerable historical and ethnographic interest.
The volume is available as an at-cost hard copy (28.29USD):
http://www.lulu.com/shop/roger-bates-and-nicky-harman-and-rupert-wilmot/ahp-31-the-lost-world-of-ladakh-early-photographic-journeys-in-indian-himalaya/paperback/product-21733172.html
…and as a free download:
http://plateauculture.org/sites/plateauculture.org/files/writing/lost-world-ladakh-early-photographic-journeys-indian-himalaya.pdf
…with an additional appendix:
http://plateauculture.org/writing/appendix-lost-world-ladakh
What other writers have said about The Lost World of Ladakh:
“A wonderfully elegaic set of photographs recording a lost world: an almost mediaeval Ladakh untouched by modernity and still living at the hub of the old trans-Himalayan trade routes, a timeless Central Asia where soot writing boards, itinerant monks, arcane astrologers, masked dancers and elaborate turquoise headdresses were still common. These skillfully restored photographs make me ache to cross again the snowy heights of the Zoji-la and to re-visit this most fascinating region to see what is left.” William Dalrymple, author of Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
“Rupert Wilmot’s pictures are a delight. The monastery images include a spectacular set of the religious dance-drama at Hemis. There is also a visual record of the trades that lifted so many of Ladakh's villagers above the poverty level: the bustle in Leh Bazaar, the interior of a serai, and caravans of sheep, donkeys and ponies. Perhaps the book’s most outstanding feature is the series of portraits of Wilmot’s fellow-travellers and other Ladakhis, most of them in relaxed and cheerful mode, rather than posing stiffly.” Dr Janet Rizvi, writer and historian of Ladakh, Kashmir and the western Himalaya
“These illustrations, superb as photographs in their own right, capture in
visual form the essence of Ladakhi life as it was in the 1930s. While the Ladakh pictured here is in many ways gone, its legacy lives on in the distinctive culture of present-day Ladakh, which cannot be fully
appreciated without a knowledge of its history. In this book we have a
unique and vital contribution to that history.” Dr Philip Denwood, Emeritus Reader in Tibetan Studies, SOAS, University of London
Claude Rupert Trench Wilmot (1897-1961) was a British army officer
stationed in India during the 1930s, and a talented amateur photographer.
Nicky Harman translates Chinese literature, and was formerly a lecturer at Imperial College London.
Roger Bates digitized the photographs. A retired engineer, he has many years of experience working in digital photography.
Blogs dated:
25 Aug 2015
5 Nov 2015
18 Dec 2015 - http://shortstops.info/blog/