Tibet

## **Articles**

* "Tibetan Questions" by Tsering Shakya https://newleftreview.org/issues/II51/articles/tsering-shakya-tibetan-questions [EN]
* “Blood in the Snows” by Tsering Shakya https://newleftreview.org/issues/II15/articles/tsering-shakya-blood-in-the-snows [EN]
* ““They Say We Should Be Grateful”: Mass Rehousing and Relocation Programs in Tibetan Areas of China” https://www.hrw.org/report/2013/06/27/they-say-we-should-be-grateful/mass-rehousing-and-relocation-programs-tibetan [EN]
* “The Art Of (China’s) Colonialism: Constructing Invisibilities in (Tibetan) History and Geography” by Dawa Lokyitsang https://lhakardiaries.com/2012/12/19/the-art-of-chinas-colonialism-constructing-invisibilities-in-tibetan-history-and-geography/ [EN]
* “Are Tibetans Indigenous?” by Dawa Lokyitsang https://lhakardiaries.com/2017/12/27/are-tibetans-indigenous/ [EN]
* “Has the World Lost Sights of Tibet?” - forum discussion https://www.chinafile.com/conversation/has-world-lost-sight-of-tibet [EN]
* “Self Immolation Protests in Tibet” by Carole McGranahan and Ralph Litzinger https://culanth.org/fieldsights/series/self-immolation-as-protest-in-tibet [EN, open access]
* “Discussing Rights and Human Rights in Tibet” by Francoise Robin https://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&lr=&id=U8F1CwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA60&dq=francoise+robin+tibet&ots=cGmxQvbVDs&sig=eaYO2JbYuCcoz5RTHbQ4icng6l0#v=onepage&q=francoise%20robin%20tibet&f=false [EN]
* "China: Hundreds of Tibetan Detainees and Prisoners Unaccounted for" https://www.hrw.org/news/2009/03/09/china-hundreds-tibetan-detainees-and-prisoners-unaccounted [EN]
* "Prisons in Tibet" https://www.hrw.org/legacy/pubweb/PRISONST.htm [EN]
* "The Warrior from Nyarong Is No More: An Ode to Tibet’s Rebel ‘Mother’, Ama Adhe" by Palden Sonam https://www.eleventhcolumn.com/2020/08/04/the-warrior-from-nyarong-is-no-more-an-ode-to-tibets-rebel-mother-ama-adhe/ [EN]
* “Tashi Wangchuk” https://pen.org/advocacy-case/tashi-wangchuk/ [EN]
* "Transforming the Language of Protest" by Tsering Shakya https://culanth.org/fieldsights/transforming-the-language-of-protest [EN]
* "Mourning Online" by Dechen Pemba https://culanth.org/fieldsights/mourning-online [EN]
* "The Political Lives of Dead Bodies" by Charlene Makley https://culanth.org/fieldsights/the-political-lives-of-dead-bodies [EN]
* "The Information Gauntlet" by Losang Gyatso https://culanth.org/fieldsights/the-information-gauntlet [EN]
* "Tibet Talk – on Life, Death, and the State" by Ralph Litzinger https://culanth.org/fieldsights/tibet-talk-on-life-death-and-the-state [EN]
* "On “Terrorism” and the Politics of Naming" by Emily T. Yeh https://culanth.org/fieldsights/on-terrorism-and-the-politics-of-naming [EN]
* "Teaching Tibet in a Time of Precarious Emotion" by Carole McGranahan https://culanth.org/fieldsights/teaching-tibet-in-a-time-of-precarious-emotion [EN]
* "The Afterlife of Images" by Leigh Sangster https://culanth.org/fieldsights/the-afterlife-of-images [EN]
* "The Geopolitics of Politico-Religious Protest in Eastern Tibet" by Andrew M. Fischer https://culanth.org/fieldsights/the-geopolitics-of-politico-religious-protest-in-eastern-tibet [EN]
* "Self-Immolation and Slander, by Woeser" by Kevin Carrico and Tsering Woeser https://culanth.org/fieldsights/self-immolation-and-slander-woeser [EN]
* "Chinese State Media Representations" by Kevin Carrico https://culanth.org/fieldsights/chinese-state-media-representations [EN]
* "Background Links For 'Self-Immolation as Protest in Tibet'" by Carole McGranahan and Ralph Litzinger https://culanth.org/fieldsights/background-links-for-self-immolation-as-protest-in-tibet [EN]
* "Urbanising Tibet: Aspirations, Illusions, and Nightmares" by Ben Hillman, Gerald Roche, and James Leibold https://aushimalaya.net/2020/05/08/urbanising-tibet-aspirations-illusions-and-nightmares [EN]
* "Takna Jigme Sangpo Remembered by Ganden Tashi and Kate Saunders" https://highpeakspureearth.com/takna-jigme-sangpo-remembered-by-ganden-tashi-and-kate-saunders/ [EN]
* "Red Guards in Tibet" by Tsering Woeser, Robert Barnett and Susan Chen https://chinachannel.org/2020/11/10/forbidden-memory/ [EN]
* “Our Sacred Land, Their Rubbish Dump (Part 1): Chinese Artist Zhang Huan’s ‘Land Art’ Installation on Mount Kailash” by Woeser https://highpeakspureearth.com/our-sacred-land-their-rubbish-dump-part-1-chinese-artist-zhang-huans-land-art-installation-on-mount-kailash-by-woeser/ [EN]
* "China: Tibetan Monk Dies from Beating in Custody" https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/01/21/china-tibetan-monk-dies-beating-custody [EN]
* "China Signals Roll-Back on Minority Languages" by Maya Wang https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/01/28/china-signals-roll-back-minority-languages [EN]
* "A Lie Repeated: The Far Left’s Flawed History of Tibet" by Joshua Michael Schrei https://dissidentvoice.org/2008/04/a-lie-repeated-the-far-left’s-flawed-history-of-tibet/ [EN] (Red-brown website)
* "“Prosecute Them with Awesome Power”" https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/07/06/prosecute-them-awesome-power/chinas-crackdown-tengdro-monastery-and-restrictions [EN]

## **Research Articles**

* “Tibet and the Problem of Radical Reductionism” by Emily T. Yeh https://sci-hub.st/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2009.00704.x [PDF, 196kb, EN] (rebuts the argument that “taking a critical stance against western imperialism and neoliberal globalization necessitates a defense of China's policies in Tibet”)
* “The Tibet Protests of Spring 2008: Conflict Between the Nation and the State” by Robert Barnett https://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/4836 [PDF, 1.9MB, EN]
* “Urbanization, education, and the politics of space on the Tibetan Plateau” by Emily T. Yeh and Charlene Makley https://sci-hub.st/10.1080/14672715.2018.1555484 [PDF, 1.1MB, EN]
* “Don’t Discriminate Against Minority Nationalities: Practicing Tibetan Ethnicity on Social Media” by Andrew Grant https://sci-hub.st/10.1080/14631369.2016.1178062 [PDF, 586 KB, EN]
* “Moralities and contradictories in the educational aid for Tibet: contesting the multi-layered saviour complex” by Miaoyan Yang https://sci-hub.st/10.1080/01434632.2019.1623225 [PDF, 1.2 MB, EN]
* “China’s Indigenous Peoples? How Global Environmentalism Unintentionally Smuggled the Notion of Indigeneity into China” by Michael J. Hathaway https://sci-hub.st/https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/3/54/htm [PDF, 237 KB, EN]
* “Colonization with Chinese Characteristics: Politics of (In)security in Xinjiang and Tibet” by Dibyesh Anand https://sci-hub.st/10.1080/02634937.2018.1534801 [PDF, 1.7 MB, EN]
* “Urban fault lines in Shangri-La: population and economic foundations of interethnic conflict in the Tibetan areas of western China” by Andrew Martin Fischer http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/20403/ [PDF, 996kb, EN]
* “Living Together in Lhasa: Ethnic Relations, Coercive Amity, and Subaltern Cosmopolitanism” by Emily T. Yeh https://web.archive.org/web/20120222015224/http://spot.colorado.edu/~yehe/Mayaram\_ch\_3.pdf [PDF, 2.5MB, EN]
* “The Political Economy of Boomerang Aid in China’s Tibet” by Andrew Martin Fischer https://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/pdf/4842 [PDF, 1.3MB, EN]
* “The Eastern Queendom Dispute and Grassroots Politics on the Sino-Tibetan Border” by Tenzin Jinba https://sci-hub.st/10.1177/0097700413498471 [PDF, 901kb, EN]
* “Economic Patterns of the Tibet Autonomous Region: The Past and Present" by Calvin Goldscheider https://case.edu/affil/tibet/moreTibetInfo/documents/TibetEconomy2.pdf [PDF, 385 KB, EN]
* “The 1959 Tibetan Rebellion: An Interpretation" by Dawa Norbu https://sci-hub.st/10.2307/653090 [PDF, 522 KB, EN]
* “Ethnic Tension and the Struggle for Order: China's Policies in Tibet" by Solomon M. Karmel https://sci-hub.st/10.2307/2761273 [PDF, 1.9 MB, EN]
* “Fire, Flames and Ashes. How Tibetan Poets Talk about Self-Immolations without Talking about Them” by Francoise Robin http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/ret/pdf/ret\_25\_10.pdf [PDF, 344 KB, EN]
* "Tibetan Diaspora in the Shadow of the Self-Immolation Crisis: Consequences of Colonialism" by Robert Sloane https://core.ac.uk/reader/229121007 [PDF, 258 KB, EN]
* "Cultural Genocide in Tibet:The Failure of Article 8 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoplesin Protecting the Cultural Rightsof Tibetans" by Jaspreet K. Sandhar https://core.ac.uk/reader/229261510 [PDF, 301 KB, EN]
* "Tibet and China’s ‘National Minority’ Policies"- MC Davis https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/37988638.pdf [PDF, 508 KB, EN]
* “Lexical necropolitcs: The raciolinguistics of language oppression on the Tibetan margins of Chineseness” by Gerald Roche https://sci-hub.st/10.1016/j.langcom.2020.10.002 [PDF, 757 KB, EN]
* "Bottling Tibet. The post-colonial commodification of the Third Pole." by Jigme Tsering https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ya/article/view/35024/26804 [PDF, 341 KB, EN]

## **News Articles**

* “'They took everyone from me': anger lingers 60 years after Tibet crackdown” by Lily Kuo https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/10/they-took-everyone-from-me-anger-lingers-60-years-after-tibet-crackdown [EN] (owned by Scott Trust Limited)
* “Why Are Tibetans Setting Themselves on Fire?” by Tsering Woeser https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/01/11/why-are-tibetans-self-immolating/ [EN]
* "Tibetan student protests spread to Beijing" byTania Branigan https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/22/tibetan-school-pupils-protest-language-china [EN] (owned by Scott Trust Limited)
* "西藏675个便民警务站成为群众的避风港" https://www.mps.gov.cn/n2255079/n2255953/n2255956/c3912273/content.html (archived: https://archive.vn/SqoPm) [ZH]
* "Lhasa uses facial recognition, big data analysis in new taxies" by Xu Keyue www.globaltimes.cn/content/1141065.shtml [EN] (PRC state-owned media)
* “Tibetan religious activity slashed, Lhasa mayor confirms” by Nectar Gan https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2189043/tibetan-religious-activity-slashed-lhasa-mayor-confirms [EN] (owned by Alibaba)
* "Activist sentenced to five years in prison for promoting Tibetan language" by Lily Kuo https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/22/activist-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison-for-promoting-tibetan-language [EN] (owned by Scott Trust Limited)
* "China: Tibetan Children Banned from Classes" https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/01/30/china-tibetan-children-banned-classes [EN]
* "拉萨警方持续开展社会治安集中清查行动" https://www.weibo.com/ttarticle/p/show?id=2309404346423146629520 [ZH]
* "Over 1,000 Tibetans relocate from nature reserve to Lhasa" by Yin Han www.globaltimes.cn/content/1107477.shtml [EN] (PRC state-owned media)
* “Tibetan schoolchildren banned from religious activities, Chinese newspaper says” https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2156606/tibetan-schoolchildren-banned-religious-activities [EN] (owned by Alibaba)
* "China says foreigners can’t freely travel to Tibet because they get altitude sickness" by Sarah Zhang https://www.inkstonenews.com/politics/china-defends-travel-restrictions-tibet-citing-altitude-sickness/article/3001098 [EN]
* "China jails Tibetan language activist for ‘inciting separatism’" by Grace Tsoi https://www.inkstonenews.com/society/tibetan-language-activist-tashi-wangchuk-jailed-five-years/article/2147257 [EN]
* "Xi says China to step up efforts to fight 'splittism' in Tibet" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-tibet/xi-says-china-to-step-up-efforts-to-fight-splittism-in-tibet-idUSKBN25P0E0 [EN]
* “Xinjiang’s System of Militarized Vocational Training Comes to Tibet” https://jamestown.org/program/jamestown-early-warning-brief-xinjiangs-system-of-militarized-vocational-training-comes-to-tibet/ [EN]
* "羌塘草原脱贫攻坚的闪亮成绩单" http://xz.people.com.cn/n2/2020/0727/c138901-34185698.html (archived: https://archive.is/IJUyl) [ZH] (PRC government)
	+ Quote of interest: “put down their whip, get out of the pasture, and enter the market”
* "“Black Hat”: Music Video by Imprisoned Tibetan Singer Lhundrub Drakpa" https://highpeakspureearth.com/black-hat-music-video-by-imprisoned-tibetan-singer-lhundrub-drakpa/ [EN]
* "Rise of domestic social media in Tibet amid growing Chinese suppression" https://www.livemint.com/news/world/rise-of-domestic-social-media-in-tibet-amid-growing-chinese-suppression-11607009102673.html [EN]
* "Crush "Tibet independence" forces' conspiracy, People's Daily urges" http://en.people.cn/90001/90776/6378810.html [EN] (Chinese state media, proof of CCP’s imperialist tendencies towards Tibet)
* "Tibet protests" https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2008/mar/14/1 [EN]
* "'Oh my God, someone has a gun ...'" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/mar/15/tibet.china2 [EN]
* "Leaked internal document shows China used machine guns to kill Tibetans in March 2008 protest" https://www.amnesty.org.uk/blogs/countdown-china/leaked-internal-document-shows-china-used-machine-guns-kill-tibetans-march [EN]
* "China to build the world’s biggest dam on sacred Tibetan river" by Oliver Lees https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/8/china-to-build-the-worlds-biggest-dam-on-sacred-tibetan-river [EN]

## **Magazine Articles**

* "Tibet's Tense New Reality" by Anastasia Corell https://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/12/tibets-tense-new-reality/282338/ (archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20190131093158/) [EN]

## **Documents**

* “日喀则市人民政府关于大力推进转移就业工作的实施意见” (Official documents of the government on the implementation of large-scale Chinese language teaching and transfer of Minority Workers) https://archive.is/7oJ7p#selection-349.0-349.25 [ZH]
* "西藏2011年从退役士兵中考录人民警察公告" www.chinagwy.org/html/xwsz/zyxw/201110/21\_32722.html [ZH] (PRC government)
* "西藏拉萨新建26个便民警务站投入使用" https://www.mps.gov.cn/n2255079/n2255804/n2255808/c3872620/content.html (Archive: https://archive.vn/dA1Pq) [ZH] (PRC government)
* "七百便民警务站不仅代表西藏法治建设，更是百姓零距离的守护" https://web.archive.org/web/20190228065638/http://news.163.com/16/0304/17/BHB2970J00014AED.html [ZH] (PRC government)
* "【素质提升月】朗读亭投入使用 助力营造推普氛围" https://archive.vn/yW5G6 [ZH] (PRC government)
* "萨迦县中学隆重举行“自治区级语言文字规范化示范校”挂牌仪式" https://archive.vn/F0wDN [ZH] (PRC government)
* "那曲市助推转移就业脱贫工作纪实" https://archive.is/OIyNp [ZH] (PRC government, talks about cracking down against “lazy people”)
* "昌都市“五项措施”推进转移就业促脱贫" https://archive.is/iiF7h [ZH] (PRC government, calls for ”military-style” training in teaching people employment skills)
* "西藏昌都加快培训农牧区实用人才" https://archive.is/4ItV6 [ZH] (PRC government, calls for ”military-style” training for economic policies)
* "昌都近20万农牧民转移就业增收逾7亿" https://archive.fo/RVJRK [ZH] (PRC government, calls for ”military-style” policies, extremely classist towards rural people and possibly racist towards Tibetans)
* "昌都市严把“五关”加强农牧民技能培训" https://archive.is/kQVnX [ZH] (PRC government, enforces ”military-style” policies)

## **Books**

* “Tibet’s Last Stand? The Tibetan Uprising of 2008 and China’s Response” by Warren W. Smith Jr http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=FEA827CA698AE3939AC0EE52A1747667 [PDF, 2 MB, EN]
* “Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War” by Carole McGranahan http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=E2816A99BE3E847F384FCDBEBA67D090 [PDF, 67 MB, EN]
* “The Battle for Fortune: State-led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China” by Charlene Makley https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501719677/the-battle-for-fortune/#bookTabs=1 [EN]
* The Division of Heaven and Earth - Shokdung https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/division-heaven-earth/ [EN]
* "Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 2: People Power in the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal Thailand and Indonesia, 1947 - 2009" by George N. Katsiaficas http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=3BA534B809A05BBBFDE529FE4808F690+%5BPDF,+12MB,+EN%5D;+http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=4DC6DAE66E8C3B33E1842F4D640D818B [EPUB, 7MB, EN]
* "Cultural Genocide" by Lawrence Davidson http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=7C2834E5F98AC8928199614F866DAA6A [PDF, 787kb, EN]

## **Excerpts**

* “Tibetan Indigeneity: Translations, Resistance and Uptake” by Emily Yeh https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003085690/chapters/10.4324/9781003085690-4
	+ Book where it’s from: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=835DBF425374FF0CF971289103693530 [PDF, 2 MB, EN]
* “Streets, slogans and screens: New paradigms for the defence of the Tibetan language” by Francoise Robin https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:885191/FULLTEXT01.pdf#page=226 [EN, open access]

## **Encyclopedia**

* “2008 Tibetan unrest” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008\_Tibetan\_unrest [EN]

## **Videos**

* "Let's Read Michael Parenti on Dengist China" uploaded by BadEmpanada 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpTL\_nz0qsw [8:43, EN]

## **Websites**

* “Lhakar Diaries” https://lhakardiaries.com/ [EN]
* “Tibet Data” https://tibetdata.org/ [EN]
* “High Peaks Pure Earth” https://highpeakspureearth.com/ [EN]
* "Tibetscapes" https://tibetscapes.wordpress.com [EN]

## **Archived**

* https://archive.vn/C1b9m [EN] - reviewing what Michael Parenti said about Tibet
* https://archive.vn/Vi0H5 [EN] - Parenti takes a nuanced stance on Tibet

## **Notes**

* Michael Parenti considers PRC’s Han chauvinism and Han settler-colonialism an imperialist act against Tibet, despite the essay on Tibetan economic system being widely circulated amongst MLs trying to justify repression of Tibetan people
* The argument of saving the people from serfdom that Han nationalists, tankies, and other defenders of the Chinese colonization of Tibet is the kind of colonial savior logic that was used throughout history by European empires to justify conquering various peoples and nations throughout history by claiming they were “saving/civilizing” them
* Every Secretary of the Communist Party of China Tibet Autonomous Region Committee has been ethnic Han since the beginning of the Chinese occupation