region: Tibet

Asian Highlands Perspectives Journal

Études mongoles & sibériennes, centrasiatiques & tibétaines (EMSCAT)

Études Mongoles was founded in 1970 by Roberte Hamayon to explore issues in Mongolian Studies. Up to 2000, it was produced in tandem with the Laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparative de Paris-X, today it operates with the École Pratique des Hautes Études. It expanded its fields of research to Siberia in 1976, then to Central […]

Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies

The Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies is an open-access and peer-reviewed journal that fosters academic discussion and exchange on China- and Chinese-related topics. It is organized and financed by the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS). www.chinesestudies.eu,

Bibliography of Asian Studies

Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) is the most comprehensive Western-language bibliographical database for research on East, Southeast and South Asia. Published by the Association for Asian Studies, it covers all subjects with special focus on the humanities and social sciences. Red more in this information leaflet on BAS.  

ChinaLawInfo

Provides access to legal news, laws & regulations, judicial cases, law journals, international treaties, white papers, legal glossary and guides to world law.  There is also an English translations version which enables comparison with the original Chinese text.  

Teaching and Learning in Tibet: A Review of Research Policy Publications

Ellen Bangsbo 2006 The issue of schooling and education for Tibetan children in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) is the focus of increasing national and international attention. Here, special attention has been given to the concept of ‘quality education’. One should be aware that this concept is understood differently by different groups. Educationalists and NGOs […]

State Growth and Social Exclusion in Tibet: Challenges of Recent Economic Growth

Andrew Martin Fischer 2005 The most pressing economic challenges facing the Tibetan areas of western China relate to the marginalization of the majority of Tibetans from rapid state-led growth. The urban-rural divide plays an impor-tant role in this polarized dynamic but alone only partially explains differences with other Chinese regions, all of which generally exhibit […]

Commoners and Nobles: Hereditary Divisions in Tibet

Heidi Fjeld 2005 Written by one of the few scholars who has been able to conduct long-term fieldwork in the TAR, this study explores how Tibetans manoeuvre within two contradictory value systems – those of old Tibet and the new PRC – balancing between ideals and pragmatism. More specifically, it asks how and why it […]

Negotiating Autonomy in Greater China: Hong Kong and its Sovereign Before and After 1997

Ray Yep (ed) 2013 Local autonomy is a complex and often contentious issue in many countries, not least because the situation often involves a process of continuous (re)negotiation. Moreover, the actual power relationship is defined not only by legal permissibility but also by such other factors as varying political perceptions, economic interests and previous encounters […]

On the Fringes of the Harmonious Society: Tibetans and Uyghurs in Socialist China

Trine Brox & Ildikó Bellér-Hann (eds) 2014 Since 1949, Tibetans and Uyghurs generally have been perceived as the two most problematic members of the PRC’s great family of peoples and been the targets of ‘carrot and stick’ measures designed to facilitate their integration into the PRC. In recent years, a solution to the problem of […]