“…see, for example, Ashton (2012), Blair, Dickinson and Ott (2010), Denton (2005), Flath (2002, Gans (2002), Kelly and Hoerl (2012), King (2006), Noy (2008), Vivian (2010) and Zagacki and Gallagher (2009). folk tradition and modernity as progress in Chinese museums can help elucidate how 'modernity' is constructed and deployed in the service of national identity and political power (Kolås 2003: 18). Perhaps few other 'place-identities' than Tibet -with its lush symbolic imaginary juxtaposing portrayals of mystical 'Shangri La' with feudal corruption and impoverishment -reveal the complicated interrelations among history, geography, tradition, culture, ideology, modernity, display values and accompanying aesthetics.…”