Tibetan Street Songs
(Under Construction)


From left: Phünwang, Dalai Lama, Chen Yi, Panchen Lama. Lhasa 1956, inauguration of the Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Melvyn C. Goldstein

What Is Tibet? (.docx)                                                                                                                                    [Resistance and Reform in Tibet. London: Hurst & Co., 1994.]

Tibetan Feudalism and Serfdom

Melvyn C. Goldstein
Taxation and the Structure of a Tibetan Village (.pdf)
[Central Asiatic Journal 15(1):1-27. 1971.]
The Goldstein and Miller Debate on "Reexamining Choice, Dependency and Command In The Tibetan Social System: 'Tax Appendages' and Other Landless Serfs"
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.]
Tibetan Political Organization

Melvyn C. Goldstein
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.

Robert B. Ekvall
Cultural Relations on the Kansu-Tibetan Border
[Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.]

Surkhang Wangchen Gelek

On the Panchen Lama, TSIN October 1999

John Kenneth Knaus

Unknown Chinese Author

A General History of Tibet
[1895. Author and translator from the Chinese are unknown.]