Current Staff
- NEW! Click here to view an online posting of an interview with Dr. Beall on "ScienceLives"
- NEW! -Click here to view Cynthia Beall highlighted on BBC science program Horizons "Are We Still Evolving?"
Ordering Tapes for
JAPANESE EDITION
On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet: The Nyemo Incident of 1969
Melvyn Goldstein, Ben Jiao, and Tanzen Lhundrup
[University of California Press-English Edition: click here for details]
[Tokyo: Fūkyōsha - Japanese Edition: click here for details]
Reviews
3. The J. of Asian Studies, 2009
4. Etudes Mongoles & Siberiennes, Centrasiatiques & Tibetaines (EMSCAT), 2009
NEW!
THE TIBETAN ORAL HISTORY ARCHIVE PROJECT
The TIBETAN ORAL HISTORY ARCHIVE PROJECT
has just been transferred to the Library of Congress, Asian Division as a Web Archive.
This is its permanent home. The site includes the first installment of interviews in the Political Collection. A second installment will be added in a few months, and then more every year.
User Guide for the Website:
A detailed glossary is available to explain terms that appear in the transcripts. To read a transcript, (1) open COLLECTION ITEMS to see all the interviews and select one. Then open the PDF option in the left column, ( 2.) To read a transcript and listen to the tape together, open the interview you want to read and Right-Click on MP3 to open the audio in a new tab or window. Then right click on PDF to open a new tab or window for the translation. ( 3.) To use the Glossary side by side with the translation, right click the GLOSSARY link in this NOTE. Then open Collection Items, and select the interview you want. Then follow instructions (2).
VOLUME 2
A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 2, 1951-1955: The Calm Before the Storm.
Paperback edition, 2009
Reviews of Volume 2:
2. J. of Chinese Political Science, 2008.
IN CHINESE
A History of Modertn Tibet, Volume 2
Hong Kong University Press, 2014
NEW! VOLUME 3
A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 3,
1955-1957: The Storm Clouds Descend
University of California Press
Click here more more information
Reviews of Volume 3:
1. NEW!!! Benno Ryan Weiner, The Journal of Asian Studies, 2015
2. Jonathan Mirsky, Tibet Resists, The New York Review of Books, July 10, 2014.
NEW! VOLUME 3,
CHAPTER 15:
"Final Thoughts" is now available IN CHINESE on David Peng's blog.
FRENCH EDITION
The "Struggle for Modern Tibet":
Mon Combat pour un Tibet Moderne" Editions Golias, 2010
The Collected Works of Melvyn C. Goldstein
in PDF
Tibetan Nomads
Books and Articles on Tibetan
Nomads and Tibetan Environment
(New article(s) added 6/19/2017)
Tibetan History, Society
& Politics
Books and Articles (New article(s)
added 7-10-2012)
Tibetan Demography,
Marriage & Family
Books and Articles (New article(s)
added 9-28-2016)
Change, Development and Modernization in Rural Tibet
Books, chapters and Articles (New
article(s) added 1-26-2015)
IN CHINESE, TIBETAN AND KOREAN
"A Tibetan Revolutionary..."
In Chinese:
Hong Kong University Press, 2010
In Tibetan:
Bod mi gsar brje ba zhig:
‘ba’pa phun tshogs dbang
rgyal gyi srid don mi tshad
dang dus skabs (A
Tibetan Revolutionary).
Dharamsala, TIBET TIMES
PUBLISHERS, 2006.
In Korean
Seoul: Silcheon Munhak
Publishers, 2009.
Monks, Monasteries,
& Religion
Papers and Photographs of Tibetan Monks, Monasteries and Religion
(New article(s) added 1-24-2017)
On-Going Projects
High Altitude Adaptation (Hypoxia)
Environment, Climate, Flora, and Fauna
Articles, Reports, etc. (New article(s) added 9-6-2012)
2 short films on GLOBAL WARMING "On Thinner Ice" and "The Melt"
NEW! 30 June 2011: Glacial Lake Outburst Flood in Limi, Humla dist. N.W. Nepal
Reference Materials
The English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan (.pdf)
The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan Addendum (76 kb Adobe Acrobat PDF)
