Tibetan Social System


	Information About the Center Contact Us Recommended Newsgroups and Links The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan (76 kb Adobe Acrobat PDF) Using and Citing Papers on this Website Melvyn Goldstein, Ph.D Cynthia Beall, Ph.D. Tsewang Namgyai Shelling Staff Publications The Tibetan Studies Internet Newsletter Ordering Tapes for "Modern Literary Tibetan" Books and Articles on Tibetan Nomads Center for Research on Tibet's Longitudinal Nomad Project in Phala, TAR Nomads of Golok, Qinghai Tibetan Nomad Bibliography Nomad Links NEW! Revolving Sheep Bank Project Tibetan History The Tibetan Social System Tibetan Marriage and Polyandry Papers on Tibetan Monks Photographs of Tibetan Dobdo and Geyog Tibet Oral History Archive Tibetan Adaptation to High Altitude (Hypoxia) Tibetan Rural Change Project Tibetan Street Songs (Under Construction)	HOME > TIBETAN HISTORY AND SOCIAL & POLITICAL STRUCTURE From left: Phünwang, Dalai Lama, Chen Yi, Panchen Lama. Lhasa 1956, inauguration of the Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region. Robert B. Ekvall Cultural Relations on the Kansu-Tibetan Border [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.] Surkhang Wangchen Gelek Tibet in the early 20th century, TSIN January 1999 On the Panchen Lama, TSIN October 1999 Melvyn C. Goldstein What Is Tibet? (.doc) [Resistance and Reform in Tibet. London: Hurst & Co., 1994.] Modern Tibetan History, Vol. 2: The Estate System (.pdf) [University of California Press; Berkeley, Los Angeles, London. 2007.] Modern Tibetan History, Vol. 2: Conclusions (.pdf) [University of California Press; Berkeley, Los Angeles, London. 2007.] The Balance Between Centralization and Decentralization in the Traditional Tibetan Political System (.pdf) [Central Asiatic Journal. 15(3): 170-182. 1971.] Serfdom and Mobility: An Examination of the Institution of "Human Lease" in Traditional Tibetan Society (.pdf) [The Journal of Asian Studies. 30(3): 521-534. 1971.] Taxation and the Structure of a Tibetan Village (.pdf) [Central Asiatic Journal 15(1):1-27. 1971.] An Anthropological Study Of The Tibetan Political System. (.pdf) [University of Washington: 1968.] The Circulation of Estates in Tibet: Reincarnation, Land and Politics (.pdf) [Journal of Asia Studies, Vol. XXXII NO. 3, May 1973, pg. 445-455.] The United States, Tibet, and the Cold War [Journal of Cold War Studies, Volume 8, Number 3, 2006: 145-164. A Translation of part of Chapter Five (“The United States Interves") from A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 2: The Calm Before the Storm (.doc) [in Chinese] [Journal of China Executive Leadership Academy. Pudong(Shanghai). Xin Hua Wen Zhai, 10: 139-146, 2010.] On Modern Tibetan History: Moving Beyond Stereotypes (.pdf) [In., A. McKay (ed.) [Tibet and Her Neighbours:A History. London: Edition Hansjoerg Mayer. Pp. 217 - 226, 2003.] The Dalai Lama's Dilemma (.pdf) [Foreign Affairs. 77(1):83 - 97. 1998.] Tibet, China and the United States: Reflections on the Tibet Question [Occasional Paper of the Atlantic Council of the United States, pp. 72, 1995.] Tibet: After the Fall of Chamdo (.pdf) [The Tibet Journal. 26(1): 58-95, 1991.] The Dragon and the Snow Lion: The Tibet Question in the Twentieth Century (.pdf) [China Briefing. A.J. Kane (ed.), Westview Press, pp. 129-168. 1990.] High Altitude Tibetan Populations in the Remote Himalaya: Social Transformations and its Demographic, Economic, and Ecological Consequences (.pdf) [Mountain Research and Development. 1(1):5-18. 1981.] The Goldstein and Miller Debate on "Reexamining Choice, Dependency and Command In The Tibetan Social System: 'Tax Appendages' and Other Landless Serfs" Reexamining Choice, Dependency and Command In The Tibetan Social System: 'Tax Appendages' and other landless serfs" (.pdf) [The Tibet Journal XI No.4:79-113. 1986.] A Response to Goldstein's "Reexamining Choice, Dependency and Command In The Tibetan Social System" (.pdf) [The Tibet Journal XII No.2:65-67. 1987.] On The Nature Of The Tibetan Peasantry : a rejoinder (.pdf) [The Tibet Journal:61-65. 1987.] Last Rejoinder to Goldstein on Tibetan Social System (.pdf) [The Tibet Journal XIII No.3:64-67. 1988.] Freedom, Servitude and the "Servant-serf" Nyima: a re-rejoinder to Miller (.pdf) [The Tibet Journal Vol. XIV No.2:56-60. 1989.] John Kenneth Knaus Official Policies and Covert Programs: The U.S. States Department, the CIA, and the Tibetan Resistance [Journal of Cold War Studies, Volume 5, Number 3, 2003: 54-79.] Paul K. Nietupski The Fourth Belmang: Bodhisattva, Estate Lord, Tibetan Militia Leader, and Chinese Government Official (.pdf) [Asian Highlands Perspectives. 1 (2009), 187-211.] Dawa Norbu The 1959 Tibetan Rebellion: An Interpretation [The China Quarterly. No.77 (Mar., 1979), pp. 74-93.] Michael Rank Frank Ludlow and the English School in Tibet, 1923-1926 [Asian Affairs, Vol.XXXIV, No. 1, pp. 33-45, 2003.] Louis M. J. Schram The Monguors of the Kansu-Tibetan Frontier (.pdf) [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 2006 edition] Mona Schrempf The Earth-ox and the Snowlion [T. Huber (ed.), Tibetan Revival in Modern Amdo: Society and Culture During the Late 20th Century (PIATS, Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers), pp. 147-171, 2002] Hwa-shang at the Border: Transformations of History and Identity in Modern Amdo [Journal of the International Association for Tibetan Studies (JIATS), No. 2, August 2006] Alice Travers The Careers of the Noble Officials of the Ganden Phodrang (1895-1959): Organization and Hereditary Divisions within the Service of State [Revue d'Etudes Tibetaines, 21, October 2011, p155-174] Unknown Chinese Author A General History of Tibet [1895. Author and translator from the Chinese are unknown.]

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