In Case You Missed It: Tibet Special, Part 1

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Date of this Version

9-19-2008

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Article

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September 19, 2008 in The China Beat http://www.thechinabeat.org/

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Copyright September 19, 2008. Used by permission.

Abstract

It has now been six months since “China Beat” ran a series of reports about and suggested readings relating to the March unrest in Tibet. We thought this a fitting time to try to figure out what some of the best works out there are that deal with Tibet in general, not just a particular crisis involving the region and its people. So, we will be asking some people the following question: “Can you think of any particular article or book relating to Tibet that you wish more people had read?” We’ll run the answers periodically, as they come in.

As a starting point, we put the question to the participants in a recent roundtable on Tibet, which was one of the most popular and talked-about panels on the program at the 2008 Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies Meetings held in Boulder at the University of Colorado. Here are two early responses, one from roundtable co-organizer Emily T. Yeh (who put the session together with Duke anthropologist Ralph Litzinger), the other from previous “China Beat” contributor Timothy S. Oakes.

Both Emily and Tim are faculty members in the University of Colorado’s Geography department. Emily’s recent publications include “Tropes of indolence and the cultural politics of development in Lhasa, Tibet,” which appeared in 2007 in theAnnals of the Association of American Geographers (vol. 97, no. 3, pp. 593-612). A recent work by Tim likely to interest many “China Beat” readers is a volume he co-edited with Louisa Schein, Translocal China: Linkages, Identities and the Re-Imagining of Space (Routledge, 2006).