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Further Publications

2025

Peng Hai. ​“Arms of Eth­noc­ra­cy: Hui Mus­lims and Mod­ern China’s Gun Con­trol.” Mod­ern Asian Stud­ies, 2025, 1–21. 

Marnyi Gyat­so. ​“For the Sake of Bor­der­land Defense: The Cre­ation of Qing­hai Province on the Inner Asian Fron­tier of Repub­li­can Chi­na.” Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Chi­na 50, no. 3 (2025): 203–224. 

Men­la Jyab. 2025. Care­ful Vil­lage and Oth­er ​“Khashag” from Tibet: The Amdo Come­dies of Men­la Jyab. Trans­lat­ed and edit­ed by Tim­o­thy Thurston and Tser­ing Sam­drup. World Oral Lit­er­a­ture Series 13. Pub­lished Sep­tem­ber 16, 2025. 

Ben­no Wein­er, ​“Medi­at­ing Dis­putes, Mak­ing Minzu: Minori­ti­za­tion on an Eth­no­cul­tur­al Fron­tier of Ear­ly Maoist Chi­na.” In How Mao­ism was Made. Edit­ed by Aaron Moore and Jen­nifer Alte­henger. Oxford: Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 2025. 
 
Tim­o­thy Thurston, Satir­i­cal Tibet: The Pol­i­tics of Humor in Con­tem­po­rary Amdo. Seat­tle: Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton Press, 2025. 
 
Tser­ing Wang­mo Dhom­pa, The Pol­i­tics of Sor­row: Uni­ty and Alle­giance Across Tibetan Exile. New York: Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 2025. 
 

2024

Shan­non Ward, Amdo Lul­la­by: An Ethnog­ra­phy of Child­hood and Lan­guage Shift on the Tibetan Plateau. Toron­to: Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Press, 2024.
 
Ger­ald Roche, The Pol­i­tics of Lan­guage Oppres­sion in Tibet. Itha­ca: Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 2024.
 
Andrew Grant (2024): ​“Urban­iza­tion, rela­tion­al space, and prac­tic­ing Mus­lim eth­nic­i­ty in West­ern Chi­na,” Asian Eth­nic­i­ty, DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2024.2417019

Andrew Grant (2024) ​“Clos­ing the Sub-Fron­tier: Cor­ri­doris­ing Tibet and the Social Life of Per­va­sive Secu­ri­ty.” Ter­ri­to­ry, Pol­i­tics, Gov­er­nance, Novem­ber, 1–20. doi:10.1080/21622671.2024.2422893.

Don­ald S. Sut­ton (2024) ​“Ter­ri­to­ri­al­iza­tion and eth­nic con­trol in China’s bor­der­lands: Aba pre­fec­ture in the People’s Repub­lic, 1950–2020,” Eurasian Geog­ra­phy and Eco­nom­ics, DOI: 10.1080/15387216.2024.2343659

Andrew M. Fis­ch­er. ​“The chang­ing eth­nic demog­ra­phy of Amdo Tibet. Insights from the 2020 Pop­u­la­tion Cen­sus of Chi­na”, Études mon­goles et sibéri­ennes, cen­trasi­a­tiques et tibé­taines [En ligne], 55 | 2024. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/emscat/6283 

Jarmi­la Ptáčková. ​“Lost on the path towards moder­ni­ty. Urban­i­sa­tion and liveli­hood prospects of the tran­si­tion­al gen­er­a­tion in Tibetan rur­al areas in Qing­hai, People’s Repub­lic of Chi­na”, Études mon­goles et sibéri­ennes, cen­trasi­a­tiques et tibé­taines [En ligne], 55 | 2024. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/emscat/6340

Palden Gyal. ​“The Meu King­dom. Unrav­el­ling the his­to­ry of a Tibetan poli­ty in the Sino-Tibetan bor­der­lands, 1700–1930″, Études mon­goles et sibéri­ennes, cen­trasi­a­tiques et tibé­taines [En ligne], 55 | 2024. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/emscat/6543

Tse­hua Gyal, ​“Unset­tled land­scapes. The (un)making and remak­ing of a Tibetan farm­ing com­mu­ni­ty in north­west­ern Chi­na”, Études mon­goles et sibéri­ennes, cen­trasi­a­tiques et tibé­taines [En ligne], 55 | 2024. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/emscat/6387 

Eve­line Washul. 2024. ​“Cen­ter­ing the His­to­ries of Tibetan Place Names.” In ​“Cen­ter­ing the Rich­ness of Tibetan Lan­guage in Tibetan Stud­ies” spe­cial issue of Yeshe: A Jour­nal of Tibetan Lit­er­a­ture, Arts and Humanities.

2023

Ben­no Wein­er. ​“This is Absolute­ly Not a Hui Rebel­lion!’ The Eth­nop­o­l­i­tics of Great Nation­al­i­ty Chau­vin­ism in Ear­ly-Maoist Chi­na,” Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Chi­na, 48.3 (2023), 208–229. 

Ute Wal­len­böck und Veroni­ka Zik­mundová, Chris­t­ian Mis­sion­ar­ies’ Ethno­graph­ic Accounts of Diets and Food­ways in the Area of Kokonor dur­ing the late 19th Cen­tu­ry and Ear­ly Repub­li­can Time Reli­gio: Revue pro reli­gion­is­tiku 31/2, 2023, pp. 259–279.  

Katia Buf­fetrille & Tser­ing Woeser. Amnyé Machen, Amnyé Machen. Traduit par Brigitte Duzan et Valenti­na Pelu­so. Édité et annoté par Katia Buf­fetrille, 2023. 

Katia Buf­fetrille. Amnye Machen 1990–2018: Reflec­tions on the Trans­for­ma­tions of a Tibetan pil­grim­age”, in C. Cüp­pers et al A Life in Tibetan Stud­ies. Festschrift for Dieter Schuh at the Occa­sion of his 80 th Birth­day. Lumbi­ni, Lumbi­ni Inter­na­tion­al Research Insti­tute, 75–115. 

2022 

Andrew Grant. The Con­crete Plateau: Urban Tibetans and the Chi­nese Civ­i­liz­ing Mis­sion. Itha­ca, NY: Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 2022.

Susette Cooke (2022) Con­struct­ing Qing­hai Province: Chi­nese state-mak­ing in a Tibetan-Mon­gol fron­tier region 1907–1957, Eurasian Geog­ra­phy and Eco­nom­ics, DOI: 10.1080/15387216.2022.2032240

The Thou­sand-House­hold Com­man­der’s Wind­ing Road: The Auto-Nar­ra­tive of Sha­wo Tser­ing. Trans­lat­ed by Han­ni­bal Taubes, with an Intro­duc­tion by Ben­no Wein­er. Wax­ing Moon, v. 2, 2022. 

Susette Cooke, ​“Con­struct­ing Qing­hai Province: Chi­nese State-Mak­ing in a Tibetan-Mon­gol Fron­tier Region 1907–1957.” Eurasian Geog­ra­phy and Eco­nom­ics, Feb­ru­ary, 2022:  1–23. doi:10.1080/15387216.2022.2032240. 

Eve­line Washul. 2022. ​“Amdo: Social Land­scapes and Change.” In Michael Heneise and Jelle Wouters, eds. The Rout­ledge Hand­book of Con­tem­po­rary High­land Asia. Lon­don: Routledge. 

Ute Wal­len­böck, Mem­o­ry and Iden­ti­ty: Tashi Tser­ing, the Last Qin­wang South of the Yel­low Riv­er. Vest­nik NSU. Series: His­to­ry and Philol­o­gy, vol. 21. no. 10, Ori­en­tal Stud­ies, 2022, pp.50–61.  

2021 

Willock, Nicole. Lin­eages of the Lit­er­ary: Tibetan Bud­dhist Poly­maths of Social­ist Chi­na. By Nicole Willock. New York, Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 2021. 

Hor­le­mann, Bian­ca. ​“Some Notes on the Third Gurong (1875–1932), an Amdo Nyingma­pa Yogin and Lit­tle-Known Key Fig­ure in Ear­ly 20th-Cen­tu­ry Amdo,” in Cross­ing Bound­aries: Tibetan Stud­ies Unlim­it­ed. Festschrift for Toni Huber, ed. by Diana Lange et al.; 179–197. Prague: Acad­e­mia, 2021. 

Fis­ch­er, Andrew M. 2021. ​‘How Much Does Bei­jing Con­trol the Eth­nic Make­up of Tibet?’ Chi­na File (mag­a­zine of the Cen­ter of US-Chi­na Rela­tions in New York), 2 September. 

Fis­ch­er, Andrew M. 2021. ​‘Chi­nese pop­u­la­tion shares in Tibet: ear­ly insights from the 2020 cen­sus of Chi­na.’ N‑IUSSP (mag­a­zine of the Inter­na­tion­al Union for the Sci­en­tif­ic Study of Pop­u­la­tion). 20 September.

2020 

Robert Bar­nett, Ben­no Wein­er, and Françoise Robin, eds. Con­flict­ing Mem­o­ries: Tibetan His­to­ry Under Mao Retold. Lei­den: Brill, 2020.

Hor­le­mann, Bian­ca. ​“The ​’Lib­er­a­tion’ of Golok as Reflect­ed in the Mem­oir of Wang Yuy­ing,” in Con­flict­ing Mem­o­ries. Tibetan His­to­ry under Mao Retold, ed. by Robert Bar­nett, Ben­no Wein­er and Françoise Robin, 89–108. Lei­den: Brill, 2020. 

Li, Jian­glin. When the Iron Bird Flies: China’s Secret War in Tibet. Stan­ford: Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 2022. 

Bren­ton Sul­li­van. Build­ing a Reli­gious empire: Tibetan Bud­dhism, Bureau­cra­cy, and the Rise of the Geluk­pa. Philadel­phia: Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia Press, 2020. 

Ben­no Wein­er. The Chi­nese Rev­o­lu­tion on the Tibetan Fron­tier. Itha­ca, NY: Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 2020. 

Wein­er, Ben­no. ​“The Apo­r­ia of Re-remem­ber­ing: Amdo’s Ear­ly-Lib­er­a­tion Peri­od in the Qing­hai Wen­shi Ziliao.”In Con­flict­ing Mem­o­ries: Tibet under Mao Retold. Edit­ed by Robert Bar­nett, Ben­no Wein­er, and Françoise Robin. Lei­den: Brill, 2020. 

2019

Erhard, F.X. ​“Rep­re­sen­ta­tion of Pow­er and Hege­mo­ny in Con­tem­po­rary Fic­tion from Amdo: Tséring Döndrub’s Nov­el Fog” In Map­ping Amdo — Dynam­ics of Pow­er edit­ed by Ute Wal­len­boeck, Bian­ca Hor­le­mann, and Jarmi­la Ptack­o­va, Archivni ori­en­tal­ni: Sup­ple­men­ta, 2019. 

Katia Buf­fetrille. ​“The increas­ing vis­i­bil­i­ty of the Tibetan ​“Bor­der­lands” in Stéphane Gros (ed.) Fron­tier Tibet: Pat­terns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Bor­der­lands, (Ams­ter­dam, Ams­ter­dam Uni­ver­si­ty Press, pp. 85–113.

Katia Buf­fetrille. 2019. ​“Beasts, Men and Gods”. A red puri­fy­ing smoke offer­ing (marsang) in Tri­ka (Amdo). Études mon­goles et sibéri­ennes, cen­trasi­a­tiques et tibé­taines [En ligne], 50 | 2019. 

Hor­le­mann, Bian­ca. ​“Mus­lim Unrest in Amdo: The Rebel­lion of Ma Zhongy­ing in 1928 and 1929,” in Map­ping Amdo: Dynam­ics of Pow­er, ed. by Ute Wal­len­böck, Bian­ca Hor­le­mann and Jarmi­la Ptáck­ová, 51–76. Sup­ple­men­ta XI of Archiv ori­en­tál­ní. Prague: Ori­en­tal Insti­tute, 2019. 

Lan­ge­laar, Reinier J. ​“His­tor­i­cal Social Organ­i­sa­tion on the East­ern Tibetan Plateau: The Ter­ri­to­r­i­al Ori­gins and Ety­mol­o­gy of tsho-ba. Inner Asia 21, no. 1 (2019): 7–37.

Ute Wal­len­böck, Gengya Drakkar (rGan gya brag dkar)—Its Sig­nif­i­cance as a Place of Pil­grim­age and as Sacred Nat­ur­al Site. In: Wal­len­böck, U., Hor­le­mann, B. und Ptack­o­va, J. (eds.), Map­ping Amdo: Dynam­ics of Pow­er. Archív Ori­en­tál­ní Sup­ple­men­ta. Prague: Ori­en­tal Insti­tute CAS, 2019. pp.133–158.

Ute Wal­len­böck, Cul­tur­al and Edu­ca­tion­al Dimen­sion of the ​“Silk Road”: The Re-inven­tion of Mon­gol­ness in Qing­hai Province, PRChi­na. Vien­na Jour­nal of East Asian Stud­ies 11, 2019, pp.31–59.  

Ute Wal­len­böck, Die Bevölkerung am Sino-Tibetis­chen Gren­zge­bi­et. Iden­tität­skon­struk­tion der Tibet- Mon­golen. (Glob­algeschichte und Glob­al Stud­ies, Vol. 1), Mün­ster: Aschen­dorff Ver­lag, 2019. 

2018

Fis­ch­er, Andrew M., and Adri­an Zenz. 2018. ​‘The Lim­its to Buy­ing Sta­bil­i­ty in Tibet: Tibetan Rep­re­sen­ta­tion and Pref­er­en­tial­i­ty in China’s Con­tem­po­rary Pub­lic Employ­ment Sys­tem.’ Chi­na Quar­ter­ly 234: 527–51. (open access; also see online sup­ple­men­tary mate­r­i­al).

Cencetti, E. ​“Pas­toral­ists with­out Live­stock: Per­cep­tions of Work and Liveli­hood Strate­gies in New Set­tle­ments on the Amdo-Qing­hai Tibetan Plateau.” Himalayan Dis­cov­er­ies 2, no. 1. 33–44, 2018. 

Mak­ley, C. 2018. The Bat­tle for For­tune: State-led Devel­op­ment, Per­son­hood and Pow­er Among Tibetans in Chi­na. Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty Press and Weath­er­head East Asian Institute.

Mak­ley, C. (with Donyul Don­drup and Abho). “ ​‘I will nev­er for­get that day’ ”: A con­ver­sa­tion with for­mer vil­lage leader Gabzang,” in Robert Bar­nett, Ben­no Wein­er and Fran­coise Robin, eds., Re-remem­ber­ing Ear­ly Con­tact between Tibetans and the Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Par­ty in the post-Mao Peri­od. Brill.

Mak­ley, C. (with Donyul Don­drup). ​“The Body Hair that Grows on the Head: Man­la-kyab’s ​‘Views on Hair and Hair­styles’ (2009),” in Fran­coise Robin and Nicholas Sih­le (eds.), The Cul­tur­al Pol­i­tics of Hair in Tibet.

Sangjie Zhaxi (Sangs rgyas bkra shis) and C. K. Stu­art. ​“Tibetan Dai­ly Life on the gCan tsha thang Grass­land.” Himalayan Dis­cov­er­ies 2, no. 1. 111–150.

Vir­ta­nen, R.J. ​“Ordi­nary Heroes and Hero­ines? Fic­tion­al Sto­ries of Tibetan Life in the Coun­try­side in the gTsang and A mdo Region.” Himalayan Dis­cov­er­ies 2, no. 1. 59–94.

Oidt­mann, Max. Forg­ing the Gold­en Urn: The Qing Empire and the Pol­i­tics of Rein­car­na­tion in Tibet. New York: Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 2018.

2017

Tut­tle, G. ​“Pat­tern Recog­ni­tion: Track­ing the Spread of the Incar­na­tion Insti­tu­tion through Time and across Tibetan Ter­ri­to­ry.” Revue d’Etudes Tibé­taines. 38 (Feb­ru­ary 2017)

Mak­ley, C. ​“The Abstract State: Dilem­mas of Sov­er­eign­ty and Scale Among Tibetans in Chi­na,” in, Jarmi­la Ptack­o­va and Adri­an Zenz (eds.), Amdo: Dynam­ics of Change, rill. Pt kov , J. and Zenz, A. (eds.). 2017. Map­ping Amdo: Dynam­ics of Change, Arch v Ori­ent ln . Sup­ple­men­ta X, Prague: Ori­ent ln stav.

Ptack­o­va, J. Orches­trat­ed envi­ron­men­tal migra­tion in West­ern Chi­na. In E. Stern­feld (ed.), Rout­ledge Hand­book of Envi­ron­men­tal Pol­i­cy in Chi­na, Lon­don: Rout­ledge, 223–236.

Ptack­o­va, J. The Enclo­sure Move­ment in East­ern Tibetan Pas­toral­ist Areas — An Analy­sis of Objec­tives and Real­i­ties. In A. Gruschke and I. Breuer (eds.), Tibetan Pas­toral­ists and Devel­op­ment, Wies­baden: Reichert, 121–130.

Robin, F. ​“Gang­shun and the Rise of Cap­i­tal­ism with Tibetan Char­ac­ter­is­tics”, High Peaks Pure Earth, Octo­ber 2017.

Ute Wal­len­böck, Gtsang A rig – A Tibetan tribe clas­si­fied as Mon­gols. In: Ptack­o­va, J. und Zenz, A. (eds.). Map­ping Amdo: Dynam­ics of Change. Archív Ori­en­tál­ní Sup­ple­men­ta X. Prague: Ori­en­tal Insti­tute CAS, 2017, pp.185–210. 

2016

Ute Wal­len­böck, Mar­gin­al­i­sa­tion at China’s Mul­ti-Eth­nic Fron­tier: The Mon­gols of Henan Mon­go­lian Autonomous Coun­ty in Qing­hai Province. Chi­na aktuell — Jour­nal of Cur­rent Chi­nese Affairs, 45, 2016, pp.149–182. 

Tut­tle, G. ​“The Role of Mon­gol Elite and Edu­ca­tion­al Degrees in the Advent of Rein­car­na­tion Lin­eages in 17th Cen­tu­ry Amdo.” In Tibet’s Tur­bu­lent 17th Cen­tu­ry and The Tenth Karma­pa. Edit­ed by Karl Debreczeny and Gray Tut­tle. Serindia Pub­li­ca­tions. 2016. 

Mak­ley, C. ​“Khe­drup Gyat­so: Monk Between Worlds,” in Jef­frey Samuels, Mark Rowe, and Justin McDaniel eds., Fig­ures of Bud­dhist Moder­ni­ty in Asia. Uni­ver­si­ty of Hawaii Press. 

Mak­ley, C. Review of the book Love and Lib­er­a­tion: Auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal Writ­ings of the Tibetan Bud­dhist Vision­ary Sera Khan­dro, by Sarah H. Jaco­by. Jour­nal of the His­to­ry of Sex­u­al­i­ty 25(3), 527–529. 

Ptack­o­va, J. ​“Mak­ing Space for Devel­op­ment. A Study on Reset­tle­ment from the Longyangx­ia Water Reser­voir Area of Qing­hai Province.” Inner Asia 18, 152–166.

Ptack­o­va, J. Urban­isierung im Naturschutzge­bi­et der Drei Flussquellen in Qing­hai: Die Sesshaftigkeit tibetis­ch­er Hirten als Folge von Umweltschutz- und Entwick­lungs­maß­nah­men. In R. Altenburg­er und E. Bent­mann (Eds.), Raum und Gren­ze in den Chi­na-Stu­di­en, Har­ras­sowitz, 121- 136.

Roche, Ger­ald. ​“The Tibetaniza­tion of Henan’s Mon­gols: Eth­nic­i­ty and Assim­i­la­tion on the Sino-Tibetan Fron­tier.” Asian Eth­nic­i­ty 17, no. 1 (2016): 128–49. 

Katia Buf­fetrille. 2016. Les nomades tibé­tains et les 10 nou­velles ver­tus. In M.F. Bennes (ed.) Les Tibé­tains. Paris, Ate­liers Dougi­er, pp. 46–56.

2015

Fis­ch­er, Andrew M. 2015. ​‘Eco­nom­ic Restruc­tur­ing and Labour Mar­ket Reforms in Amdo, Qing­hai: Insights into Con­tem­po­rary Tibetan Mus­lim Con­flict.’ In Mus­lims in Amdo Tibetan Soci­ety: Mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary Approach­es. Edit­ed by Marie-Paule Hille, Bian­ca Hor­le­mann, & Paul K. Nietup­s­ki. Lan­ham, MD: Lex­ing­ton Books, pp. 207–227. 

Fis­ch­er, Andrew M. 2015. ​‘Sub­si­dis­ing Tibet: an inter­provin­cial com­par­i­son of west­ern Chi­na up to the end of the Hu-Wen admin­is­tra­tion.’ Chi­na Quar­ter­ly 221 (March 2015): 73–99.

Hille, Marie-Paule, Bian­ca Hor­le­mann and Paul Nietup­s­ki (eds.). Mus­lims in Amdo Tibetan Soci­ety. Mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary Approach­es. Lan­ham, MD: Lex­ing­ton Books. 

Bian­ca Hor­le­mann ​“West­ern Trav­el­ogues and Research Reports on Gan­su and Qing­hai,” Asian High­lands Per­spec­tives 37:37–78, 2015. 

Hor­le­mann, Bian­ca. ​“Vic­tims of Mod­ern­iza­tion? Strug­gles between the Goloks and the Mus­lim Ma War­lords in Qing­hai, 1917–1942,” in Mus­lims in Amdo Tibetan Soci­ety: Mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary Approach­es, ed. by Marie-Paule Hille, Bian­ca Hor­le­mann and Paul K. Nietup­s­ki. Lan­ham: Lex­ing­ton, 153–77.

Mak­ley, C. ​“On the Edge of Respectabil­i­ty: Sex­u­al Pol­i­tics in China’s Tibet” in The Gen­der, Cul­ture, Pow­er Read­er, Dorothy Hodg­son, ed., Oxford: Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty Press.

Katia Buf­fetrille. 2015. A con­tro­ver­sy on veg­e­tar­i­an­ism, in Rober­to Vitali (ed.) Trails of the Tibetan Tra­di­tion, Papers for Elliot Sper­ling (Dharam­sala, Amye Machen Insti­tute), pp. 113–128. 

Mak­ley, C. ​“The Sociopo­lit­i­cal Lives of Dead Bod­ies: Tibetan Self-Immo­la­tion Protest as Mass Media.” Cul­tur­al Anthro­pol­o­gy 30(3) (August).

Ptack­o­va, J. ​“A Seden­tari­sa­tion Suc­cess for Tibetan Pas­toral­ists in Qing­hai?” Nomadic Peo­ples 19(2), 221–240.

Robin, F. ​“Car­ing for Wom­en’s Words and Wom­en’s Bod­ies: A Field Note on Pal­mo and her ​“Demoness Wel­fare Asso­ci­a­tion for Women”, in N. Schnei­der et M. Schrempf (dir.), Revue d’E­tudes Tibé­taines 34, Women as Vision­ar­ies, Heal­ers and Agents of Social Trans­for­ma­tion in the Himalayas, Tibet and Mon­go­lia, pp. 153–169. 

Oidt­mann, Max. ​“A ​‘Dog-Eat-Dog’ World: Qing Jurisprac­tices and the Legal Inscrip­tion of Piety in Amdo.” Extrême-Ori­ent Extrȇme-Occi­dent 40 (2016a): 151–82.

Oidt­mann, Max. ​“Over­lap­ping Empires: Reli­gion, Pol­i­tics, and Eth­nic­i­ty in 19th Cen­tu­ry Qing­hai.” Late Impe­r­i­al Chi­na 37, no. 2 (2016b): 41–91. 

2014

Tut­tle, G. ​“An Unknown Tra­di­tion of Han Chi­nese Con­ver­sion to Tibetan Bud­dhism: Han Chi­nese Incar­nate Lamas and Parish­ioners of Tibetan Bud­dhist Tem­ples in Amdo.” Zangx­ue xuekan 藏学学刊/ Jour­nal of Tibetol­ogy. 9 (2014) 274–298.

Fis­ch­er, Andrew M. 2014. The Dis­em­pow­ered Devel­op­ment of Tibet in Chi­na: a study in the eco­nom­ics of mar­gin­al­i­sa­tion. Lan­ham, MD: Lexington/Rowman and Lit­tle­field (cross-list­ed with the Weath­er­head East Asian Insti­tute Book Series at Colum­bia University). 

Mak­ley, C. ​“Spec­tac­u­lar Com­pas­sion: ​‘Nat­ur­al’ Dis­as­ters and Nation­al Mourn­ing in Chi­na’s Tibet,” Crit­i­cal Asian Stud­ies 46 (3): 371–404.

Mak­ley, C. ​“Review Essay. Jin­ba, Ten­zin. In the Land of the East­ern Queen­dom,” Jour­nal of Asian Stud­ies 73(4): 1084–1087.

Mak­ley, C. ​“The Amoral Oth­er: State-led Devel­op­ment and Moun­tain Deity Cults among Tibetans in Amdo Reb­gong,” in Emi­ly Yeh and Chris Cog­gins, eds., Map­ping Shangri­la: Nature, Per­son­hood, and Poli­ty in the Sino-Tibetan Bor­der­lands. Seat­tle: Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton Press.

Ptack­o­va, J. Urban Liveli­hood Strate­gies of Pas­toral­ists and Semi-Pas­toral­ists in Rur­al Qing­hai, Chi­na. Zhong­guo xibu kaifa yan­jiu lian­heti di 9 jie xueshu nian­hui huiyi lun­wen ji. Guizhou, Guian xin­qu. 128–136.

2013

Dhondup, Y., Samuel, G. & Pagel, U. (Eds.). 2013. Monas­tic and Lay Tra­di­tions in North East­ern Tibet, Lei­den: Brill.

Dhondup, Y. ​“Rules and Reg­u­la­tions of the Reb kong Tantric Com­mu­ni­ty.” In Y. Dhondup, G. Samuel & U. Pagel (Eds.), Monas­tic and Lay Tra­di­tions in North-East­ern Tibet. Lei­den: Brill, 117–140.

Pirie, Fer­nan­da. ​“The Lim­its of the State: Coer­cion and Con­sent in Chi­nese Tibet.” Jour­nal of Asian Stud­ies 72, no. 1 (2013): 69–89.

Erhard, F.X. ​“Remem­ber­ing His­to­ry in Amdo: Three Lit­er­ary Accounts for the Years from 1956 to 1976.” In ​“Cur­rent Issues and Progress in Tibetan Stud­ies: Pro­ceed­ings of the Third Inter­na­tion­al Sem­i­nar of Young Tibetol­o­gists.”: Edit­ed by Tsug­uhi­to Takeuchi, Kazushi Iwao, Nishi­da Ai, Sei­ji Kuma­gai, and Meishi Yamamo­to. Spe­cial issue, Kobe City Uni­ver­si­ty of For­eign Stud­ies Jour­nal of Research Insti­tute 51: 103–23.

Mak­ley, C. ​“The Pol­i­tics of Pres­ence: Voice, Deity Pos­ses­sion, and Dilem­mas of Devel­op­ment Among Tibetans in the PRC,” Com­par­a­tive Stud­ies in Soci­ety and His­to­ry 55 (3): 665–700.

Mak­ley, C. ​“Reb­gong’s Klu rol and the Pol­i­tics of Pres­ence: Method­olog­i­cal Con­sid­er­a­tions,” in Uni­ty and Diver­si­ty: Monas­tic and Non-monas­tic Tra­di­tions in North-east Tibet. Yang­don Dhondup, Ulrich Pagel, Geof­frey Samuels. eds. Lei­den: Brill.

Mak­ley, C. Book Review. Craig, Sien­na. Heal­ing Ele­ments: Effi­ca­cy and the Social Ecolo­gies of Tibetan Med­i­cine, in Com­par­a­tive Stud­ies in Soci­ety and His­to­ry.

2012

Tut­tle, G. ​“Build­ing up the Dge lugs pa Base in A mdo: The Roles of Lhasa, Bei­jing and Local Agency,” Zangx­ue xuekan 藏学学刊/ Jour­nal of Tibetol­ogy. 7 (2012) 126–140. 

Dhondup, Y. ​“Rig ​’dzin Dpal ldan bkra shis (1688–1743) and The Emer­gence of a Tantric Com­mu­ni­ty in Reb kong, A mdo (Qing­hai).” The Jour­nal of the Inter­na­tion­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Bud­dhist Stud­ies (JIABS) 34/1–2, 3–30.

Hor­le­mann, Bian­ca. ​“Tibetans and Mus­lims in North­west Chi­na: Eco­nom­ic and Polit­i­cal Aspects of a Com­plex His­tor­i­cal Rela­tion­ship,” Asian High­lands Per­spec­tives 21: 141–186, 2012. 

Hor­le­mann, Bian­ca. ​“Tibetan Nomadic Trade, the Chi­nese ​‘Xiejia’ Sys­tem and the Sino-Tibetan Bor­der Mar­ket in Stong ​’khor/ Dan’gaer in 19th/ 20th Cen­tu­ry A mdo,” in Stud­ies on the His­to­ry and Lit­er­a­ture of Tibet and the Himalaya, ed. by Rober­to Vitali. Kath­man­du: Vajra, 109–142, 2012. 

Hor­le­mann, Bian­ca. ​“Ear­ly Tibetan Toponyms. An Attempt to Iden­ti­fy ​‘Byi lig of P.T. 116 and P.T. 996,” Xiyu lishi yuyan yan­jiu jikan 西域历史语言研究集刊/ His­tor­i­cal and Philo­log­i­cal Stud­ies of China’s West­ern Region 5: 113–133, 2012.

Hor­le­mann, Bian­ca. ​“Bud­dhist Sites in A mdo and for­mer Longy­ou from the 8th to the 13th Cen­tu­ry,” in PIATS Oxford 2003, Old Tibetan Stud­ies Ded­i­cat­ed to the Mem­o­ry of Ronald E. Emm­er­ick, ed. by Cristi­na Scher­rer-Schaub. Lei­den: Brill, 119–157, 2012. 

Fis­ch­er, Andrew M. 2012. ​‘The Geopol­i­tics of Politi­co-Reli­gious Protest in East­ern Tibet.’ Cul­tur­al Anthro­pol­o­gy Hot Spot Forum 4.

Mak­ley, C. ​“The Polit­i­cal Lives of Dead Bod­ies,” in Cul­tur­al Anthro­pol­o­gy Hot Spot Forum: Self-Immo­la­tion as Protest in Tibet (April).

Ptack­o­va, J. Imple­men­ta­tion of Reset­tle­ment Pro­grams among Pas­toral­ist Com­mu­ni­ties in East­ern Tibet. In H. Kreutz­mann (Ed.),Pastoral prac­tices in High Asia, Springer; 217–235.

Robin, F. ​“La révolte en Amdo en 1958,” in K. Buf­fetrille and F. Robin (eds.), L’his­toire du Tibet du XVI­Ième au XXIème siè­cle, Rap­port de groupe inter­par­lemen­taire d’amitié N° 104, 2012, pp. 45–56. 

2011

Fis­ch­er, Andrew M. 2011. ​‘The Great Trans­for­ma­tion of Tibet? Rapid labour tran­si­tions in times of rapid growth.’ Himalaya 30(1–2): 63–77. 

Dhondup, Y. ​“Reb kong: Reli­gion, His­to­ry and Iden­ti­ty of a Sino-Tibetan bor­der­land town ”, Revue d’Etudes Tibé­taines, no. 20, Avril 2011, pp. 33–59. 

Erhard, F.X. ​“Con­struct­ed Iden­ti­ties and Con­tem­po­rary Tibetan Lit­er­a­ture: The Fic­tion of the A‑m­do-ba Skyabs-chen bde-grol and the Lha-sa-ba Dpal-’byor.” In Map­ping the Mod­ern in Tibet. Edit­ed by Gray Tut­tle, 419–34. Beiträge zur Zen­tralasien­forschung 24. Halle (Saale): Inter­na­tion­al Insti­tute for Tibetan and Bud­dhist Stud­ies (IITBS).

Ptack­o­va, J. ​“Seden­tari­sa­tion of Tibetan nomads in Chi­na. Imple­men­ta­tion of the ​‘Nomadic set­tle­ment’ project in the Tibetan Amdo area; Qing­hai and Sichuan Provinces.” Pas­toral­ism: Research, Pol­i­cy and Prac­tice; Springer Open Journal.

Vir­ta­nen, Riika J. ​“Tibetan Writ­ten Images. A Study of Imagery in the Writ­ings of Dhondup Gyal.” Ori­en­tal­is­tis­che Lit­er­aturzeitung 111 (2): 190–92

2010

Mak­ley, C. ​“Minzu, Mar­ket and the Man­dala: Nation­al Exhi­bi­tion­ism and Tibetan Bud­dhist Revival in Post-Mao Chi­na.” in Faiths on Dis­play, Tim­o­thy Oakes and Don­ald Sut­ton, eds. Routledge.

Katia Buf­fetrille. 2010 ​“May the new emerge from the ancient! May the ancient serve the present!” The Gesar fes­ti­val of Rma chen (A mdo 2002), in Rober­ti Vitali (ed.) Pro­ceed­ings of the Inter­na­tion­al Sem­i­nar on Tibetan and Himalayan Stud­ies. Dharam­sala, Sep­tem­ber 3 rd ‑5 th 2009. Tibet Jour­nal, Spe­cial Issue. Autumn 2009 vol. XXXIV n.3‑Summer 2010 vol.XXXV n.2, pp. 523–554. 

Katia Buf­fetrille. 2010. Khyung mo monastery (A mdo) and its ​“map” of ​’Ol mo lung ring. East and West n o . 58 I‑IV. Rome, IsMEO, pp. 313–326. 

Fis­ch­er, Andrew M. 2010. ​‘Towards Gen­uine Uni­ver­sal­ism with­in Con­tem­po­rary Devel­op­ment Pol­i­cy.’ IDS Bul­letin (Spe­cial Issue on MDGs and Beyond) 41(1): 36–44.

Ptack­o­va, J. ​“The seden­ta­riza­tion process in Tibetan nomadic areas of Qing­hai, Chi­na.” Mon­go­lo-Tibet­i­ca Pra­gen­sia, Karlo­va Uni­verzi­ta, Pra­ha; 157–182.

2008

Cooke, Susette. 2008. ​“Sur­viv­ing State and Soci­ety in North­west Chi­na: The Hui Expe­ri­ence in Qing­hai Province under the PRC.” Jour­nal of Mus­lim Minor­i­ty Affairs 28 (3): 401–20. doi:10.1080/13602000802548060.

Cooke, Susette. ​“Becom­ing and Unbe­com­ing Tu: Nation, Nation­al­i­ty and the People’s Repub­lic of Chi­na.” In Exile Cul­tures, Mis­placed Iden­ti­ties, edit­ed by Paul Allat­son and Jo McCor­ma­ck, 34–56. Ams­ter­dam: Rodopi, 2008.

Fis­ch­er, Andrew M. 2008. ‘“Pop­u­la­tion Inva­sion” ver­sus Urban Exclu­sion in the Tibetan Areas of West­ern Chi­na.’ Pop­u­la­tion and Devel­op­ment Review 34 (4): 631–662. 

Fis­ch­er, Andrew M. 2008. ​‘The Mus­lim Cook, the Tibetan Client, his Lama and their Boy­cott: Mod­ern reli­gious dis­cours­es of anti-Mus­lim eco­nom­ic activism in Amdo.’ In Huber, Toni, and Fer­nan­da Pirie, eds., Con­flict and social order in Tibet and Inner Asia. Lei­den: Brill, pp. 159–192.

Fis­ch­er, Andrew M. 2008. ​‘Sub­sis­tence and Rur­al Tibetan House­hold Liveli­hood Strate­gies under Rapid Eco­nom­ic and Social Tran­si­tion’, Jour­nal of the Inter­na­tion­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Tibet Stud­ies 4 (Decem­ber): 1–49.

Katia Buf­fetrille. 2008. Some remarks on medi­ums: the case of the lha pa of the musi­cal fes­ti­val (glu rol) of Sog ru (A mdo), Mon­go­lo-Tibet­i­ca Pra­gen­sia ​’08, vol. 1, n°2, Charles Uni­ver­si­ty, Prague, pp. 13–66. 

2007

Pirie, Fer­nan­da. ​“Order, Indi­vid­u­al­ism and Respon­si­bil­i­ty: Con­trast­ing Dynam­ics on the Tibetan Plateau.” In Order and Dis­or­der: Anthro­po­log­i­cal Per­spec­tives, edit­ed by Kee­bet von Ben­da-Beck­mann and Fer­nan­da Pirie, 54–73. New York: Berghahn, 2007.

2005

Fis­ch­er, Andrew M. 2005. State Growth and Social Exclu­sion in Tibet: Chal­lenges of Recent Eco­nom­ic Growth. Copen­hagen: Nordic Insti­tute of Asian Stud­ies Press. 

Good­man, David S. G. 2005. ​“Exiled by Def­i­n­i­tion: The Salar and Eco­nom­ic Activism in North­west Chi­na.” Asian Stud­ies Review 29 (4): 325–43. doi:10.1080/10357820500398309. 

Pirie, Fer­nan­da. ​“Seg­men­ta­tion with­in the State: The Recon­fig­u­ra­tion of Tibetan Tribes in China’s Reform Peri­od.” Nomadic Peo­ples 9, nos. 1–2 (2005): 83–102. 

2004

Good­man, David S. G. ​“Qing­hai and the Emer­gence of the West: Nation­al­i­ties, Com­mu­nal Inter­ac­tion and Nation­al Inte­gra­tion.” Chi­na Quar­ter­ly, no. 178 (2004): 379–99.

Katia Buf­fetrille. 2004. The Evo­lu­tion of a Tibetan Pil­grim­age: the Pil­grim­age to A myes rMa chen Moun­tain in the 21st Cen­tu­ry. Sym­po­sium on Con­tem­po­rary Tibetan Stud­ies, 21st cen­tu­ry Tibet Issue, Col­lect­ed Papers. Taipei, Mon­go­lian and Tibetan Affairs Com­mis­sion, pp. 325–363. 

Katia Buf­fetrille. 2004. Jeu et rit­uel ou com­ment le jeu peut être un rit­uel : le glu/klu rol du six­ième mois dans la région de Reb gong (A mdo), in Études mon­goles, sibéri­ennes, cen­trasi­a­tiques et tibé­taines. 35. Automne 2004, pp. 203–229. 

2002

Toni Huber, ed. Amdo Tibetans in Tran­si­tion: Soci­ety and Cul­ture in the Post-Mao Era, Lei­den: Brill, 2002. 

1997

Katia Buf­fetrille. 1997. ​“The Great Pil­grim­age of A myes rMa-chen: Writ­ten Tra­di­tions, Liv­ing Real­i­ties”, in A.W. Mac­don­ald (ed.) Man­dala and Land­scape. Del­hi, D.K. Print­world : 75–132.

1994

Katia Buf­fetrille. ​“The Blue lake and its island: leg­ends and pil­grim­age guide”, Tibet Jour­nal, Dharam­sala, Vol. XIX, n°4, Win­ter : 2–23. Pub­lished again in 1999, « The Blue lake and its island: leg­ends and pil­grim­age guide », in T. Huber (ed.) Sacred spaces and Pow­er­ful Places in Tibetan Reli­gious Cul­ture: A col­lec­tion of Essays. Dharam­sala, LTWA : 105–124 (Revised version).

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