East Asia . Roof of Asia . Central Eurasia |
Qinghai |
NARRATIVE . References : Online Secondary Sources . Online Primary Sources . Bibliographic and Print Sources |
Students' Paper : Son, Bo Kyung, The History of Persecution of the Buddhist Faith (2011) |
Country Profiles | modern |
from Wikipedia |
historical |
F. Grenard, Tibet (1904), IA A.H. Savage Landor, Tibet & Nepal (1905), IA F. Younghusband, India and Tibet (1910), IA F.B. Shelton, Shelton of Tibet (1923), IA Th. H. Holdich, Tibet, the Mysterious (1906), IA S.A. Hedin, Central Asia and Tibet (1903), IA M.S. Wellby, Through Unknown Tibet (1898), IA W.J. Ottley, With Mounted Infantry in Tibet (1906), IA P. Landon, Lhasa: An Account of the Country and People of Central Tibet .. (1905), IA C.A. Sherring, Western Tibet and the British borderland; the sacred country of Hindus and Buddhists(1906), IA P. Millington, To Lhassa at last (1905), IA E. Candler, The Unveiling of Lhasa (1905), IA I.L. Byrd, Among the Tibetans (1894), IA |
Links | General |
from Virtual Library Tibetan Studies;
from World Bridges, from
Tibet on the Web,
from Khawakarpo Asia Portal : Tibet Category : Tibet, from Wikipedia |
on History |
Category : History of Tibet, from Wikipedia |
Historical Dictionary |
Encyclopedia of China, from Jongo Knows |
Timelines |
see here Chronologie Tibet, from Clio, in French History of the Administrative Divisions of China, Capitals of Subnational Entities of China, from Wikipedia |
Accounts of History |
from Wikipedia;
from T.T. Moh;
from Travel China Guide;
from Lonely Planet List of Current and Former Capitals of Subnational Entities of China, from Wikipedia; scroll down for Tibet |
Specific Periods |
Article : Tibet during the Ming Dynasty, from Wikipedia The History of Tibet : Tang Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, from China Daily F. Moraes, The Revolt in Tibet (1960), IA J. Bacot, Le Tibet Revolte (1912) in French, IA P. Landon, The opening of Tibet; an account of Lhasa and the country and people of central Tibet (1905), IA |
Historiography |
L.W.J. van der Kuijp, Tibetan Historiography
, Tibetan Literature: Studies in Genre, pp.39-56 J.A. Duncan, American Journalism and the Tibet Question, 1950-1959, thesis Iowa State 2011 D. Hirshberg, Delivering the Lotus-Born: Historiography in the Tibetan Renaissance, thesis Harvard 2012; "Tibetan Renaissance" refers to the 12th century Article : Old Tibetan Chronicle, Wikipedia Article : Tibetan Annals, Wikipedia B.J. Cuevas, Some Reflections on the Periodization of Tibetan History, Revue d'Etudes Tibetaines vol.10 2002 pp.44-55 |
Politics |
Tibetan Studies - Tibetan Politics, from Virtual Library Tibet Concentration Camps Today : Tibet, from ATTAC Category : Subdivisions of Tibet, from Wikipedia |
Military |
Wars of Tibet, from ACED United Kingdom : Tibet Medal 1903-1904, from ODM Brief Introduction of Chushi Gangdrug Defend Tibet Volunteer Force and Welfare Society of Central Dhokham Chushi Gangdrug of Tibet |
Economy & Finances |
A Global History of Currencies :
Tibet Tibet's Economy, from Asian Info China's Tibet : Economy 2002 Trade Key, search for Tibet Ancient Tea-Horse Road, from TuoCha Tea Yuan Fuquan, The "Ancient Tea and Horse Caravan Road", the "Silk Road of Southwest China", in : Silk Road Newsletter 2004 China's Ancient Tea-Horse-Road in Historical Perspective, from CPA Media |
Social History |
Ethnography |
Assessment for Tibetans in China, from
Minorities at Risk Articles Lhoba, Tibetan, from Ethnic China The Chinese Empire : Tibet, pp.579-582 in G.G. Chisholm, The world as it is; a popular account of the countries and peoples of the earth 1884, IA Tibet, pp.4889-4924 in vol.7A of J.A. Hammerton, Peoples of All Nations, c.1920, illustrated, IA |
Religion |
Bon Religion in Tibet, from Travel China Guide Tibetan Religion (links), from Virtual Library Tibetan Studies Chronology of Catholic Dioceses : China, posted by Kirken i Norge Historical Sketch of the Muslims in Tibet, from The Berzin Archives L.A. Waddell, The Buddhism of Tibet (1895), IA E.V. Huc, Christianity in China, Tartary and Thibet 1858, GB |
History of Regions |
Ptrovinces of China,
Prefectures of China, from www.statoids.com Article Amdo, from Wikipedia Article : Guge, from Wikipedia |
Local History |
History of Lhasa, from Wikipedia Treaty Ports, Foreign Concessions & Colonies in 1920es China, list compiled by Phil Abbey |
Institutions |
Article Potala Palace, from Wikipedia Article Qingzang Railway, from Wikipedia Article Chinese Language Radio Stations, from Wikipedia, scroll down for Lhasa Radio Structurae : Tibet |
Culture |
Biographies |
Article Dalai Lama, from Wikipedia Article Panchen Lama, from Wikipedia |
Environmental History |
Patrick T. Hughes, Environmental Degradation in the Tibetan Autonomous
Region, ICE Cases 2006 A.A.A. Kinloch, Large game shooting in Thibet and the north west 1869, GB |
Others |
History of Relations between Tibet and China, from Tibet Facts H.E. Richardson, A Ch'ing Missive to Tibet, in Asia Major vol.18 pt.1 1973 Goldstein, Melvyn C., The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Sanderson Beck, Tibet, Nepal and Ceylon 1800-1950 Islam & Tibet Cultural Interactions (8th-17th Centuries) |
Historical Data | Lists of Statesmen |
Provinces and administrative divisions of China, from
World Statesmen Article Dalai Lama, from Wikipedia Article Panchen Lama, from Wikipedia from Rulers (B. Schemmel), China entry, scroll down for Tibet; China Administrative Divisions, from rulers.org, scroll down for Xizang; from Regnal Chronologies |
Statistical Data |
China, historical population statistics by province, from
Population Statistics, posted by Jan Lahmeyer Tibet, from UNEASCAP Chinadata City Populations : China - Xizang (Tibet), from City Population PRC, Abortions and Live Births by Region, Historical Data, from Johnston's Archive Tibet, from Database of the Basic Conditions of Family Planning Programme at CIPRC (Text on Demography, 1999) |
Documents | Historical Newspapers | Hemerotheques |
ICON, International Coalition on Newspapers, Newspaper Digitization Projects,
scroll down for Thailand |
Modern Newspapers |
News, Electronic Newsletters and Journals, links from
Virtual Library Tibetan Studies Tibet Newspapers, from World Newspapers |
Online Yearbooks |
Documentaries |
Search Internet Archive's Moving Image Archive for Tibet |
Image Databanks |
The Tibet Album. British Photography in Central Tibet, 1920-1950 American Geographical Society Library : Tibet Contemporary Views of Central Asia (late 1970s-early 1980s) China Underground : 40 Rare Images of Old Tibet, 1940s Tibet Visual History Online, at Oxford Univ. Heading East. Tibet 1942, photos |
Archival Deposits |
Laws |
1991 Constitution (Exile Govt.), from ICL Legal Materials on Tibet, posted by Tibet Justice Center |
Document Collections |
British Intelligence Reports on China in Tibet, 1903-1950, published by IDC Publishers |
Individual Documents |
Historical Maps | collections : Asia |
Historical Map Archive : Historical Maps of Asia |
information |
J.E. Schwartzberg, Cartography in Greater Tibet,
in J.B. Harley and D. Woodward (ed.), Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies, vol.2 : Cartography in Korea, Japan and Vietnam, Chicago UP 1994 |
collections : Tibet |
Search David Rumsey Map Collection for Tibet Atlas of Tibet, from Wikimedia Commons Tibet Album : Maps of Tibet Tibet Maps : Tibet Old Maps Maps, posted by Richard Sharp from Tibet Map Institute; from Access Tibet Tour Geographical and Historical Maps of Eastern Tibet, from TEW Maps of monasteries in Tibet, 1902, posted by PCL, UTexas, scroll down for Tibet, 3 maps Digital Himalayas : Himalayan Map Collection Tibetan and Himalayan Library : Tibetan and Himalayan Maps |
Asia, Historical |
Maps : Eastern Hemisphere 550 B.C.,
527 BC,
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565 AD,
600 AD,
610 AD,
900 AD,
1000 AD,
1025 AD,
1100 AD,
1200 AD,
1300 AD,
1400 AD,
1500 AD,
Asia 700 AD,
800 AD, by Thomas Lessman |
Asia, Historical |
Asia : Güssefeld/Homann 1793,
Güssefeld/Homann 1805,
Schmidt/Schropp 1820,
Herisson 1848, GDZ Asia 1892, PCL, UTexas |
Tibet, Modern |
Tibet, from Asian Linguistic Maps Map : Languages of China, from Titus Map of Ming Dynasty (in Chinese), from History of China Map of Qing Dynasty (in Chinese), from Cultural China Map of Qing Dynasty 1616 [!], Qing Dynasty 1757, Qing Dynasty 1911, from Wikipedia Chinese edition History of China, has Chinese language maps per dynasty; most of them feature Tibet Map : Tibet : [historical] Provinces, from Wikipedia |
Tibet, Contemporary |
Tibet 1888,
1906,
1932,
1938, from Probert Encyclopedia Sino-Tibetan States C7-C11, from History on Maps |
Detail, Modern |
Detail, Contemporary |
Historical Encyclopedia Entries |
General |
Article Tibet,
Lhasa,
Shigatse,
Gartok,
Yatung,
Chumbi Valley,
Gyantse, from EB 1911,
Classic Encyclopedia, IA-WM Articles Tibet, Lhassa, from Meyers Konversationslexikon 1885-1892, in German Articles Tibet, Lhassa, from Brockhaus Konversationslexikon 1894-1896, in German |
Religious |
from Catholic Encyclopedia (of 1907) |
Economical |
Handel von Lassa oder Boutan, pp.98-99,
in : Friedrich Ludwig Langstedt, Geschichte des asiatischen Handels, 1803, in German, GB |
Geographical |
Royaume de Thibethe, pp.871-872 in P. d'Avity, Le Monde,
ou la Description generale de ses quatre parties, 1643, in French, GB Thibet, in J. Walker, The Universal Gazetteer, 1795, GB Thibet, pp.1045-1052 in H. Murray, An Encyclopaedia of Geography 1834, GB Tibet, pp.101-111 in R. Brown, The Countries of the World 1892, IA |
Ethnological |
Thibet pp.170-173 in S. Morewood, A Philosophical and Statistical History of the Inventions and Customs of Ancient and Modern Nations in the Manufacture and Use of Inebriating Liquors, 1838, GB The Tibetans pp.188-192 in A.H. Keane, The World's Peoples: A Popular Account of Their Bodily & Mental Characters , 1908, GB |
Travelogues |
E.R. Huc, Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China, during the years 1844-5-6, vol.1,
vol.2, GB Mrs. Hervey, The adventures of a lady in Tartary, Thibet, China, & Kashmir, 1853, GB W.H. Knight, Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet, 1863, GB G. Bogle, Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet .. (1876), IA H. Bower, Diary of a Journey across Tibet (1894), IA S.Ch. Das, Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet (1902), IA S.A. Hedin, Adventures in Tibet (1904), IA P. Goullart, Land of the Lamas, Adventures in Secret Tibet (1959), IA E. Teichman, Travels of a consular officer in Eastern Tibet; together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India (1922), IA |
Institutions | Archives |
Libraries, Archives : Tibet, from Portals
of the World |
Musea |
Monuments |
Libraries |
National Symbols | Flags, Coats of Arms |
Flag, from FOTW; Emblem, from
Tibetan Government in Exile |
Coins, Banknotes |
Banknotes of Tibet, from World Currency Museum;
from Ron Wise's World Paper Money;
from Zeno Tibetan Coins, commercial site; from Zeno Search Coin Archives for Tibet |
Stamps |
Stamps of Independent Tibet, posted by
Tibetan Government in Exile |
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND PRINT SOURCES Bibliographies . Online Libraries . Thesis Servers . Online Journals . General Accounts . Specific Topics . Historical Dictionaries . Statistical Data . Yearbooks |
Bibliographies |
Catalogue of Tibetan Studies, from china.org, has several entries on Tibetans in Qinghai (books in English) Transoxiana Food and Culture (a bibliography), by R.T. Dirks, click on Central Asia Dan Martin, Bon Bibliography. An Annotated List of Recent Publications Tibet : History, Religion and Modern Politics, Bibliography from University of Maine, Farmington Islam and Tibet, Thematic Bibliography, from Islam & Tibet Cultural Interactions; Bibliography on Islam in Tibet, from Benzin Archives Research on Tibetan Languages : A Bibliography, from Wikipedia Tibet Maps Bibliography, from Save Tibet Books on Tibet, from Orchid Press Ch.16 : Scriptores de rebus Tibetanis et Coreanis, pp.101-106 in vol.2.2 of Struve/Meusel, Bibliotheca Historica 1786, GB Tibet Bibliography, by Richard Sharp New Asia Books : Tibet |
Online Libraries | general |
Google Books;
Internet Archives;
Gutenberg Library Online;
HathiTrust;
International Boundary Studies,
search for Laos Gallica |
on Tibet |
The Tibetan & Himalayan Library |
Thesis Server |
Open Access Theses and Dissertations Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) : China Dissertation Reviews : Inner/Central Asia + Tibetan-Himalayan |
Online Journals |
General Listings |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
on Tibet |
The Tibet Journal Himalaya. The Journal for Nepalese and Himalayan Studies (Himalayan Research Bulletin of the Nepal Studies Association) 1980- Digital Himalaya : Bulletin of Tibetology 1964-2004 Digital Himalaya : Journal of the Tibet Society 1981-1988 Digital Himalaya : Journal of the International Association for Bon Research 2013 Digital Himalaya : Revue d'Etudes Tibetaines 2002-2013 Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies J.V. Bellezza, Flight of the Khyung. Tibet Archaeology 2006- |
General Accounts |
History of Tibet, pp.209-212 in : Article China, from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Macropaedia, 15th edition, Vol.16, KMLA Lib.Sign. R 032 B862h Jin Hui et al. (ed.), Social History of Tibet, China, Beijing : China Intercontinental Press 1995 [G] Tsepon W.D. Shakabpa, Tibet : A Political History, NY : Potala Publications (1967) 1984 [G] David L. Snellgrove, Hugh Richardson, A Cultural History of Tibet, Bangkok : Orchid Press 2003 [G] Patricia Levy, Don Bosco, Cultures of the World : Tibet, NY : Marshall Cavendish Benchmark (1996) 2007 [G] Melvyn C. Goldstein, A History of Modern Tibet. The Demise of the Lamaist State 1913-1951, Berkeley : University of California Press 1989, KMLA Lib. Call Sign 951.5 G624h |
Specific Topics |
Historical Dictionaries |
James S. Olson, An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China, Westport CT : Greenwood 1998 [G] |
Others |
The Far Frontiers pp.507-523, in : John Gunther, Inside Asia, 1942 War Edition, NY : Harper & Brothers (1938) 1942 William Henry Knight, Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet (1863), posted online by Gutenberg Library Online Fl.B. Shelton, Sunshine and shadow on the Tibetan border (1912), IA |
Yearbooks |
Article : Tibet, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1944 p.695, 1945 p.695, 1946 p.733, 1947 pp.753-754, 1948 p.729, 1949 p.626,
1950 pp.673-674, 1952 p.680, 1953 pp.688-689, 1954 p.689, 1955 p.741, 1956 pp.678-679, 1958 pp.682-683, 1959 p.681,
1960 pp.680-681, 1961 p.680, 1962 p.675 [G] Article : China - Tibet, in : Statesman's Yearbook 1918 pp.762-764, 1919 pp.759-761, 1924 pp.754-756, 1925 pp.765-767, 1926 pp.742-744, 1928 pp.753-754, 1929 pp.746-747, 1932 pp.751-752, 1937 pp.787-788, 794, 1943 pp.784-785 [G] Article : China, Tibet, in : Statesman's Yearbook 1970-1971 p.808, 1975-1976 pp.819-820, 1980-1981 pp.337-338, 1983-1984 pp.347-348, 1985-1988 pp.347-348, 1987-1988 pp.351-352, 1989-1990 pp.356-357, 1990-1991 p.356, 1991-1992 p.356, 1992-1993 p.357, 1993-1994 pp.356-357, 1994-1995 p.348, 1995-1996 pp.335-336, 1996-1997 pp.346-347, 1997-1998 pp.349-350, 1998-1999 p.385, 2000 p.444, 2001 pp.430-431, 2002 pp.447-448, 2003 pp.446-447, 2004 pp.447-448, 2005 pp.443-444 [G] Article : Tibet, in : Americana Annual 1927 p.827, 1928 p.756, 1930 pp.745-746, 1931 p.742, 1932 p.690, 1933 p.744, 1934 p.575, 1935 p.694, 1936 p.705, 1937 p.680, 1943 pp.704-705, 1944 p.681, 1945 p.696, 1946 p.718-719, 1947 p.701, 1957 pp.731-732, 1961 pp.760-761, 1962 pp.767-768, 1963 p.681, 1964 p.663 [G] Article : Thibet, in : International Year Book 1898 p.775 [G] |