A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao's campaigns in the wake of the Amdo Rebellion of 1958.

Call for Papers International Conference Jointly Organized by the Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China and the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica Taiwan Reframing Modern Histori…

Benno Weiner reviews Edward Wong’s “At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China.”

I FIRST MET Tsering Döndrup at his home in Xining – the largest city on the Tibetan Plateau, located in Qinghai province in western China. This was in early 201

This week on Sinica, in a show recorded at the University of Pittsburgh, I speak with Benno Weiner, Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, about how China's policy toward its mi...

*Furthering my education in the travails of modern Tibet* Within the Tibetan cultural world, research on the Amdo region (see e.g. here) has become a remarkably dynamic field of scholarship. A fine…

This book explores the historical and religious dynamics that led to the “golden age” of Tibetan printing in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It also examines the Mahāyāna Buddhist i...

China’s complex linguistic landscape reveals deep tensions between the state’s push for the use of Mandarin and the preservation of minority languages like Tibetan. As Mandarin is promoted as a neutra...

The region is becoming a theme park for the Chinese nation.

An unexpected development has taken place in the seven-decades-long dispute between the Tibetan exile leadership and China’s government. In early July, for the first time since 2010, Chinese authoriti...

At a shelter in the Flushing area of New York, Hui Muslims who fled oppression in China are concerned about the president-elect’s vows to tighten asylum policy.

A remarkable novel by one of Tibet’s foremost authors, The Red Wind Howls is a courageous and gripping portrayal of Tibetan suffering under Mao’s regime.... | CUP

By Naktsang Nulo Translated by Angus Cargill and Sonam Lhamo Reviewed by Kevin Carrico MCLC Resource Center Publication (Copyright December, 2015) Teaching about ethnic issues in China, one of the …