Publications

Whether for academic, professional, or personal interest, you can discover publications made by staff at the Center for Research on Tibet at Case Western Reserve University.

For Publications by Cynthia M. Beall click here for CV


Melvyn C. Goldstein

 

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A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 4

1957-1959: In the Eye of the Storm

Citation: University of California Press, 2019

View A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 4 on ucpress.com. 

 

Awards

Association for Asian Studies, China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC)'s "E. Gene Smith Inner Asia Book Prize for 2022" 

Reviews

  • 1. Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 79, Number 2, May 2020
  • 2. J. of Chinese Studies, Volume 71, July 2020

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A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 3

1955-1957: The Storm Clouds Descend

Citation: University of California Press, 2014

View A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 3 on ucpress.com. 

 

Reviews

1. Benno Ryan Weiner, The Journal of Asian Studies, 2015

2. Jonathan Mirsky, Tibet Resists, The New York Review of Books, July 10, 2014


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On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet

The Nyemo Incident of 1969

Citation: University of California Press, 2010

View On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet on ucpress.com. 

 

Reviews

1. Buddhadharma, Spring 2009

2. The China Quarterly, 2009.

3. The J. of Asian Studies, 2009

4. Etudes Mongoles & Siberiennes, Centrasiatiques & Tibetaines (EMSCAT), 2009


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A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 2

1951-1955: The Calm Before the Storm.

Citation: University of California Press, 2009

View A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 2 on ucpress.com. 

 

Reviews

1. J. of Asian Studies, 2008.

2. J. of Chinese Political Science, 2008.

3. Educational Review, 2008.


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A Tibetan Revolutionary

The political life of Bapa Phüntso Wangye

Citation: University of California Press, pp. 371, 2004

View A Tibetan Revolutionary on ucpress.com. 

 

Reviews

Professor Tsering Shakya's Review in Chinese and English


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The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan

Citation: University of California Press, pp. 1200, 2001

View The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan on ucpress.com. 


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Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet

Religious Revival and Cultural Identity

Citation: University of California Press, pp. 207, 1998

View Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet on ucpress.com. 


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The Snow Lion and the Dragon

China, Tibet and the Dalai Lama

Citation: University of California Press, pp.152, 1997

View The Snow Lion and the Dragon on ucpress.com. 


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The Struggle for a Modern Tibet

The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering

Citation: M.E.Sharpe. pp. 207, 1997


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Tibet, China and the United States

Reflections on the Tibet Question

Citation: Atlantic Council of the United States. Washington D.C., 1995

View Tibet, China and the United States: Reflections on the Tibet Question


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The Changing World of Mongolia's Nomads

Citation: Berkeley, U. of California Press., 176 pp., 1994


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Policy and Aging in Contemporary China

Citation: J. of Cross-Cultural Gerontology. Vol. 8, No. 3, 1993


Tibet: Issues for Americans

Citation: Harold H. Saunders, Melvyn C. Goldstein, Richard Holbrooke, Sidney R. Jones, David M. Lampton, and Dwight H. Perkins. "Tibet: Issues for Americans": A report on a project of the National Committee on U.S.­China Relations". National Committee China Policy Series, No. Four, April 1992.


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Essentials of Modern Literary Tibetan

A reading course and reference grammar

Citation: U. of California Press., 1991

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Nomads of Western Tibet

The survival of a way of life

Citation: Berkeley: U. of California Press., 1990


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A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 1
1913-1951

The Demise of the Lamaist State

Citation: University of California Press, 1989

View A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 1
1913-1951
on ucpress.com. 

Awards

Association for Asian Studies "Joseph Levenson Prize for best monograph on Twentieth-Century China in 1989: Honorable Mention"

Reviews

AAS Levenson Book Prize


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Tibetan Phrasebook

Citation: Lonely Planet Publishers, pp. 108, 1987


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English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan

Citation: Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 485, 1984

View English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan1 on ucpress.com


Tibetan for Beginners and Travelers

Citation: Kathmandu: Ratna Pustak Bhandar Publishers, 1982


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Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan

Citation: Kathmandu: Biblioteca Himalaya Series, II, Vol. 9., Nepal. pp. 1250, 1975


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Modern Literary Tibetan

A Grammar and Reader, Vol. V

Citation: Vol. V. Occasional Papers of the Wolfenden Society on Tibeto-Burmese Linguistics. pp. 350, 1973


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Modern Spoken Tibetan

Lhasa Dialect

Citation: University of Washington Press, pp. 400, 1970


Ph.D. Dissertation (1968)

"An Anthropological Analysis of the Tibetan Political System"

The articles on this page are listed in reverse chronological order along with the contributing authors.

2023

2022

2018

  • Review: Tibet in Agony: Lhasa 1959, by Jianglin Li, translated by Susan Wilf
    Melvyn C. Goldstein
    [The China Journal, no. 80 (July 2018): 150-155]

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

  • Bouddhisme tibétain et monachisme de masse.
    [In Adeline Herrou and Gisele Krauskopff (eds.) Des moines et des moniales dans le monde. La vie monastique de la parente. Presses Universitaires de Toulouse le Mirail, publication date, 2009. [English version of paper is "Tibetan Buddhism and Mass Monasticism"]

2008

2007

2005

2004

2003

2002

1998

1997

1996

1995

1994

1993

  • Income and Family Support Among Rural Elderly in Zhejiang Province, China.
    Melvyn C. Goldstein, Yachun Ku
    [Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology. 8(3):197-223. 1993.]
  • Mongolian Nomads
    C.M. Beall, Melvyn C. Goldstein
    [National Geographic Magazine. May 1993]
  • Dietary Seasonality among Tibetan Nomads.
    C.M. Beall, Melvyn C. Goldstein
    [Research and Exploration 9(4):477-79]
  • Nomadic pastoralists and the traditional political economy- a rejoinder to Cox
    [Himalayan Research Bulletin]
  • Outside Instigation and the Disturbances in Tibet: A Rejoiner to Sharlho
    [The Journal of Comtemporary Chine. 1(4): 93-97]

1992

1991

1990

1989

1988

1987

1986

1985

1984

  • On Studying Fertility at High Altitude: A Rejoinder to Hoff.
    Goldstein, Melvyn C.;Beall, Cynthia M.; and Tsarong, Paljor
    [American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 86, No. 2 (Jun., 1984), pp. 419-423]
  • Response to Basu and Gupta's Comments on High Altitude Hypoxia, Culture and Human Fecundity/Fertility.
    Melvyn C. Goldstein, C.M. Beall, and P. Tsarong
    [American Anthropologist. 86(4): 996-997.]
  • Response to Abelson. 
    Melvyn C. Goldstein, C.M. Beall, and P. Tsarong
    [American Anthropologist. 86(3) 703-705.]

1983

1982

1981

1980

  • Growing Old in Helambu: Aging, Migration and Family Structure Among Sherpas. 
    Melvyn C. Goldstein and C.M. Beall
    [Contributions to Napalese Studies. 8(1): 41-56.]
  • The Significance of Latitudinality in Himilayan Mountain Ecosystems. 
    Melvyn C. Goldstein and D. Messerschmidt
    [Human Ecology. 8(2): 117-135.]

1978

1977

  • Culture, Population, Ecology and Development: A View From Northwest Nepal.
    [Proceedings of the 1976 C.N.R.S. International Conference on the Ethnology of the Himalayas. Paris, pp. 481-489.]
  • Population, Social Structure and Strategic Behavior: An Essay on Polyandry, Fertility and Change in Limi Panchayat.
    [Contributions to Napalese Studies. Vol. 4, No. 2, June pp. 49-62.]

1976

1975

1974

1973

1971

1964