China: Tibet
(see also China, China: Maoist Era & China since 1980)
Basics
CIA World Factbook. Includes map.
UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators.
On the Web: Articles
When the Sky Fell to Earth: The New Crackdown on Buddhism in Tibet. International Campaign for Tibet (7/8/04).
Trials of a Tibetan Monk: The Case of Tenzin Delek. Human Rights Watch (2/04).
On the Web: Specialized Sites
British Vigil for Human Rights in Tibet.
International Campaign for Tibet.
Tibet Today (from China's People's Daily).
Tibet Today (Chinese government's answers to frequently asked questions).
Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization (UNPO).
In the Library: Articles
Avedon, John F. "Tibet today," Utne Reader 32 (3-4/89):34-40.
Bauer, Manuel & Isabel Hilton. "Tibet: consequences of Chinese Occupation," Granta 58 (sum 97):171-96.
Bowers, Stephen. "Tibet since Mao Zedong," Journal of Social, Political & Economic Studies 19,4 (win 94):409-33.
Buruma, Ian. "Tibet disenchanted," NY Review 47,12 (7/20/00):22-25.
Ekvall, Robert B. "The Tibetan self-image," Pacific Affairs 33,4 (1960):375-82.
Gayford, Sally. "Ordeal by exile," New Internationalist (12/93):31.
Hansen, Peter H. "The dancing lamas of Everest: cinema, orientalism & Anglo-Tibetan relations in the 1920's," American Historical Review 101,2 (1996):712-47.
Hilton, Isabel. “The Buddha’s daughter,” New Yorker (3/29/04):42- 50.
Mirsky, Jonathan. "Destroying the dharma," NY Review (12/2/04):45-47. Review essay on Goldstein, Tibetan Revolutionary.
Norbu, Dawa. "Tibet in Sino-Indian relations: the centrality of marginality," Asian Survey 37,11 (11/97):1078-26.
New Internationalist (12/95). Special issue on Tibet under Chinese occupation, and in support of international movement of solidarity with their nonviolent struggle for autonomy.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Apte, Robert Z. Tibet: Enduring Spirit, Exploited Land (Santa Fe NM: Heartsfire, 1998).
Bass, Catriona. Education in Tibet: Policy & Practice since 1958 (NY: Zed, 1998).
Cao, Changching & James D. Seymour. Tibet Through Dissident Chinese Eyes: Essays on Self-Determination (Armonk NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998).
Childs, Geoff. Tibetan Diary: From Birth to Death & Beyond in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal (Berkeley: U. of California, 2004).
Dalai Lama. Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet (NY: HarperCollins, 1990).
Donnet, Pierre-Antoine. Tibet: Survival in Question [1991] (trans. Tica Broch; London: Zed, 1994).
Epstein, Israel. Tibet Transformed (Beijing: New World, 1983).
Feigon, Lee. Demystifying Tibet. Unlocking the Secrets of the Land of the
Snows (Chicago: I.R. Dee, 1996).
Goldstein, Melvyn C. The Snow Lion & the Dragon. China, Tibet & the Dalai Lama (Berkeley: U. of California, 1997).
__________ & Matthew T. Kapstein (eds.) Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet (Berkeley: U. of California, 1998).
__________, Dawei Sherp & Williem R. Siebenschuh. A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life & Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye (Berkeley: U. of California, 2004).
Grunfeld, A. Tom. The Making of Modern Tibet (Armonk NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996).
Lobsang Rampa, T. The Third Eye: The Autobiography of a Tibetan Lama (NY: Doubleday, 1957).
López, Donald S. Jr. Prisoners of Shangri-La. Tibetan Buddhism & the West (Chicago: U. Chicago, 1998).
Margolis, Eric S. War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir & Tibet (NY: Routledge, 2002).
Murphy, Dervla. Tibetan Foothold (London: Murray, 1966).
Patterson, George N. Tibet in Revolt (NY: Macmillan, 1960).
Perdue, Peter C. China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Cambridge MA: Harvard U., 2005). Mongolia, Xinjiang & Tibet.
Powers, John. History as Propaganda: Tibetan Exiles vs. the People's Republic of China (NY: Oxford, 2004).
Salisbury, Charlotte Y. Tibetan Diary (NY: Walker, 1981). Travel account.
Seth, Vikram. From Heaven Lake: Travels through Sinkiang & Tibet (London: Chatto & Windus, 1983).
Shakabpa, W.D. Tibet, a Political History (New Haven: Yale, 1967).
Shakya, Tsering. The Dragon in the Land of Snows. A History of Modern Tibet since 1947 (NY: Columbia, 1999).
Snellgrove, David & Hugh Richardson. A Cultural History of Tibet (NY: Praeger, 1968).
Sperling, Elliot. Tibet since 1950: Silence, Prison or Exile (NY: Aperture,
2000).
Strong, Anna Louise. Tibetan Interviews (Peking: New World, 1959).
__________. When Serfs Stood Up in Tibet (rev. ed.; San Francisco: Red Sun, 1976).
In the Library: Fiction
Hyde-Chambers, Frederick. Lama: A Novel of Tibet (NY: McGaw-Hill, 1985). Set in 1951.
Lobsang Rampa, T. The Saffron Robe (London: Corgi, 1966).
__________. Candlelight (London: Corgi, 1973).
Patison, Elliot. Water Touching Stone (NY: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2001).
__________. Beautiful Ghosts (NY: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2004).
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
Tibet the Sacred Realm: Photographs, 1880-1950 (Philadelphia, 1983).
Govinda, Li Gotami. Tibet in Pictures (Berkeley, 1979).
Poncar, Jaroslav. Tibet (NY, 2000).
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"The Cup" [2000], dir. Khyentse Norbu, 94m. In video stores. Boy monks & in north Indian exile.
"Kundun" [1997], dir. Martin Scorsese, 128m. In video stores. Story of 14th Dalai Lama.
"Seven Years in Tibet" [1956], dir. Hans Nieter, 79m & [1996], dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud, 139m. In video stores. World War II Austrian POW escapes from Indian prison camp across Himalayas to Lhasa, befriends youthful Dalai Lama.
"Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion" [2003], dir. Tom Peosay, 104m. From Artistic License Films. Documentary on half-century struggle for independence from China.
"Tibet: a Moment in Time" (1997), William Bacon Productions, 54m.