E5) What books about Tibet would you recommend?
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This article is from the Tibet FAQ, by Peter Kauffner Peter.Kauffner@bearsden.org and Nima Dorje tibet@acs.ucalgary.ca.
E5) What books about Tibet would you recommend?
Avedon, John F. _In Exile From the Land of Snows_, New York, 1984, xii +
383 pages. An account of Tibet's recent history from the perspective of
the Tibetan exile community.
Epstein, Israel. _Tibet Transformed_, Beijing, 1983, 566 pages. Beijing's
view of matters Tibetan.
Feigon, Lee. _Demystifying Tibet: Unlocking the Secrets of the Land of
Snows_, Chicago, 1996, xi + 242 pages. A general survey of Tibetan
history.
Goldstein, Melvyn C. _A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: the Demise of
the Lamaist State_, Berkeley, 1989, xxv + 898 pages. A nonpartisan,
authoritative account by the foremost scholar of modern Tibetan
history.
Harrer, Heinrich. _Seven Years in Tibet_, New York, 1953, xiii + 288 pages.
A classic tale of travel and adventure, told by an Austrian mountain
climber who became a tutor to the Dalai Lama. Recently released
as a major motion picture.
Richardson, Hugh Edward. _Tibet and Its History_, Boulder, 1984, 327 pages.
A British view of Tibet's history, now in its second revised edition.
Richardson was head of the British/Indian mission in Lhasa in 1936-40
and 1946-50.
Walt van Praag, Michael C. van. _The Status of Tibet: History, Rights and
Prospects in International Law_, Boulder, 1987, xxiv + 381 pages. Makes
a thoroughly documented legal case for Tibet's status as an independent
nation.
Section F: Sources
[Atlas10] _Atlas of China = Ta-Ch'ing Ti-kuo Ch'uan-t'u_, Shanghai, 1910,
map I.
[Asia90] Asia Watch Committee. _Merciless Repression: Human Rights Abuses
in Tibet_, New York, 1990, p. 1. A UPI report said that this remark
was made in a meeting with TAR local administrators in July 1988.
[Banister87] Banister, Judith. _China's Changing Population_, Stanford, 1987,
pp. 322-23.
[Bell24] Bell, Charles, _Tibet: Past and Present_, Oxford, 1924, pp. 78-79.
[Bennett95] Bennett, Gary M. _China Facts & Figures Annual: 1995_, Gulf
Breeze, 1995, p. 134.
[BR-D90] "Population of China's Ethnic Nationalities," _Beijing Review_,
Beijing, 24 Dec 1990, p. 34.
[BR-F89] "`Tibetan Independence' -- Fact or Fiction?" _Beijing Review_,
Beijing, 13 Feb 1989, pp. 25-30.
[BR-N90] "Tibetan Population Outgrows Average," _Beijing Review_, Beijing,
26 Nov 1990, p. 10.
[Brunnert12] Brunnert, H. S. and Hagelstrom, V.V. _Present Day Political
Organization of China_, Shanghai, 1912. p. 467. This example is from
a 1694 decree issued by the Kangxi emperor.
[Dhondup78] Dhondup, K., "Panchen Lama, the Enigmatic Tibetan," _Tibetan
Review_, Feb-March 1978, pp. 13-17.
[Donnet94] Donnet, Pierre-Antoine. _Tibet: Survival in Question_, London and
New Jersey, 1994, pp. 234, 236, 244.
[Epstein83] Epstein, Israel. _Tibet Transformed_, Beijing, 1983,
pp. 140-141.
[Far95] "High Stakes," _Far East Economic Review_, Hongkong, 22 June 1995.
[Fiske94] Fiske, John D., _China Facts & Figures Annual: 1994_, Gulf Breeze,
1994, pp. 88, 260, 293, 296.
[Free95] Free Tibet Campaign. _New Majority Chinese Population Transfer
into Tibet_, London, 1995.
[Giles1] Giles, Herbert A. _A Chinese English Dictionary_, London, 1912,
pp. 415, 1496.
[Giles2] Ibid. pp. 504, 1434-35.
[Goldstein81] Goldstein, Melvyn C. "New Perspectives on Tibetan Fertility
and Population Decline," _American Ethnologist_, Washington, Nov 1981,
pp. 721-38.
[Goldstein89] Goldstein, Melvyn C. _A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951:
The Demise of the Lamaist State_, Berkeley, 1989, p. 401.
[Grunfeld1] Grunfeld, Tom A. _The Making of Modern Tibet_, London, 1987,
pp. 11, 13, 237n77.
[Grunfeld2] Ibid. pp. 27-28.
[Grunfeld3] Ibid. p. 228.
[Gyatso89] Gyatso, Tenzin, Dalai Lama XIV. _Tibet, China and the World: A
Compilation of Interviews_, Dharamsala, 1989, p. 31.
[ICJ1] International Commission of Jurists, Legal Inquiry Committee on Tibet.
_Tibet and the Chinese People's Republic_, Geneva, 1960, p. 3.
[ICJ2] Ibid. pp. 5-6.
[Info93] Department of Information and International Relations, Central
Tibetan Administration. _Tibet: Proving Truth from Facts_, Dharamasala,
1993.
[Info94] Department of Information and International Relations, Central
Tibetan Administration. _Tibet: Proving Truth from Facts_, Dharamasala,
1994, p. 54.
[Kaye93] Kaye, Lincoln. "Raging Inflation: Lhasa Price Protest Escalates into
Anti-Chinese Riot," _Far Eastern Economic Review_, Hongkong, 3 Jun 1993,
p. 13.
[Kerr93] Kerr, Blake. _Sky Burial: An Eyewitness Account of China's Brutal
Crackdown in Tibet_, Chicago, 1993, pp. 163-64.
[Kolmas67] Kolmas, Josef. _Tibet and Imperial China: A Survey of Sino-
Tibetan Relations up to the End of the Manchu Dynasty in 1912_,
Canberra, 1967, pp. 27-28.
[Kristof93] Kristof, Nicholas D. "Communist Party Chief Calls for a Purge
in Tibet," _The New York Times_, New York, 14 Feb 1993, p. 11.
[Meltzer93] Meltzer, Milton, _Slavery: A World History_, New York, 1993,
Vol. II, p. 258.
[McEvedy78] McEvedy, Colin, and Jones, Richard. _The Atlas of World
Population History_, London, 1978, pp. 168-169.
[Overholt93] Overholt, William H. _The Rise of China: How Economic Reform
is Creating a New Superpower_, New York, 1993, pp. 103, 105.
[Partridge66] Partridge, Eric. _Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of
Modern English_, New York, 1966, p. 719.
[Poston92] Poston, Dudley L. Jr. and Yaukey, David. _The Population of Modern
China_, New York, 1992, overleaf.
[Reuter96] Reuter wire service report, March 19, 1996.
[Rockhill91] Rockhill, W. Woodville. "Tibet from Chinese Sources," _Journal
of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland_, Cambridge,
1891, p. 13.
[Savada93] Savada, Andrea M. _Nepal and Bhutan: Country Studies_, Washington,
1993, p. 186.
[Southerland88] Southerland, Daniel. "Tibetan Tells of Torture: Monk Says
Chinese Abuse Prisoners in the Region," _The Washington Post_,
Washington, 6 Sept 1988, p. A23:1.
[Southerland89] Southerland, Daniel. "The Panchen Lama, Religious Leader
in Tibet, Dies 50," _The Washington Post_, Washington, 30 Jan 1988,
p. D4:1.
[Strauss] Strauss, Robert. _Tibet -- A Travel Survival Kit_, Berkeley, 1992,
pp. 18-19.
[Strib95] "Report: Hundreds Jailed, Tortured in Tibet," _Minneapolis
Star-Tribune_, 30 May 1995, p. 4A.
[Sun94] Sun, Lena H. "Ethnic Animosities Reborn as Chinese Traders Flood
Tibet," _The Washington Post_, Washington, 15 Sept 1994, p. A27:1.
[Schwartz94] Schwartz, Ronald D. _Circle of Protest: Political Ritual in the
Tibetan Uprising_, New York, 1994, pp. 160-61.
[US Census94] U.S. Bureau of the Census. _Statistical Abstract of the United
States: 1994_, Washington, 1994, tables 696, 1375.
[Walt1] Walt van Praag, Michael C. van. _The Status of Tibet: History, Rights
and Prospects in International Law_, Boulder, 1987, pp. 287-288.
[Walt2] Ibid. p. 163. Captured PLA documents are cited as the source of the
claim that 87,000 Tibetans died in the 1959 revolt.
[Walt3] Ibid. p. 196. The quote is from a speech Solzhenitsyn made in Tokyo.
[Walt4] Ibid. p. 318.
[Walt5] Ibid. p. 112.
[Walt6] Ibid. p. 36. This example is from a telegram sent by the Qing Foreign
Ministry to the Ambans in Lhasa in 1904.
[Walt7] Ibid. p. 37.
[Walt8] Ibid. p. 228n20.
[Walt9] Ibid. pp. 139-40.
[Walt10] Ibid. p. 79.
[Walt11] Ibid. p. 146.
[Walt12] Ibid. p. 51.
[Walt13] Ibid. p. 89.
[World94] _World Almanac and Book of Facts: 1995_, New York, 1994, p. 833.
[Yang75] Yang Shou-ching. _Li Tai Yu Ti Yen Ko T`u_, Taipei, 1975, Vol 1,
pp. 13-71. This atlas was originally published in 1879 as _Li Tai Yu
Ti Yen Ko Hsien Yao Tu_.
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