Svízel identifikace Číňanů a Tibeťanů z let 1953 až 1955: Vladimír Sís a Josef Vaniš v Tibetu (cestovní deníky, publikace a fotografický archiv)
| Title in English | Troubles in the Identification of Chinese and Tibetans in 1953-1955: Vladimír Sís and Josef Vaniš in Tibet (travelogues, publications an photoarchives) |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | While processing the travel diaries and photographic archives of our first visitors to Tibet, Vladimír Sís and Josef Vaniš, an interesting problem emerged - how to identify Chinese and Tibetans. The two filmmakers stayed in the PRC from November 1953 to February 1955 and met many of the people they depict in their diaries and later publications, and also photographed them. The difficulty is that only a small number of them are identifiable, either high ranking officers of the PLA or even lower ranking people who were distinctive in some way, such as the translator Liang Wen. In the subtitles of both the Czech and Chinese versions of The Road Leads to Lhasa, the names of the collaborators are either in the Czech transcription (often with errors) or only in characters, as in the case of the film The Happy Road to Lhasa. The names in the subtitles are partially different in both versions. There are about 1800 images in the J. Vaniš photo archive, only a minority of them have been published, and the negatives usually have no captions. The Chinese and Tibetan names in the diaries are mostly mangled, or they used nicknames that are only partially decipherable. This paper will use specific cases to show how to proceed when a name is known and a face is sought for it, and vice versa. In the end, in most of the names of relevant people encountered, they were able to trace their likeness as well. The reverse procedure, where the likeness is known and the name is traced, is less successful. Overall, about 30 Tibetans and a similar number of Chinese are involved, with a face-name matching success rate of about 70 percent. |
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