Publications
Mapping Amdo
The edition Mapping Amdo serves as the written platform of the ARN. It provides space for publication of papers from various disciplines concerning the Amdo region. The aim of the Mapping Amdo series is to contribute to the creation of a comprehensive picture of Amdo and to serve not only the academic, but as well the broader public, facilitating a deeper understanding of this multicultural and multiethnic region.
Mapping Amdo Series
Edition of the ARN publishing academic papers on the Amdo area
- Publishing of the Mapping Amdo volumes follows usually the ARN workshops.
- Publication is supervised by a team of editors, who are appointed or confirmed by the board.
- Publications have to be based on significant original research conducted in or in relation to the ARN’s focus region, and reflect an ability to conduct research that involves knowledge of an original language relevant to the ARN’s focus region,
- They must conform to acceptable standards of academic work and a minimum standard of English writing skills.
- All publications will undergo a peer-review process. Submissions may be rejected by the editors based on negative peer review evaluation reports. Peer reviewers must be conducted by persons with a completed PhD in a relevant field, who possess relevant knowledge and expertise, and who have published peer-reviewed publications.
- If the number of submissions exceeds the number of papers that can be published in a given volume, the editors may choose to publish only the best submissions, or those that best fit a given theme.
- Those submitting publications need not have presented a paper at an ARN workshop.
Publications
Further Publications on Amdo
2023
Weiner, Benno. “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.
2022
Grant, Andrew. The Concrete Plateau: Urban Tibetans and the Chinese Civilizing Mission. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022.
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.
2021
Willock, Nicole. Lineages of the Literary: Tibetan Buddhist Polymaths of Socialist China. By Nicole Willock. New York, Columbia University Press, 2021.
2020
Barnett, Robert, Benno Weiner, and Françoise Robin, eds. Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History Under Mao Retold. Leiden: Brill, 2020.
Li, Jianglin. When the Iron Bird Flies: China’s Secret War in Tibet. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022.
Sullivan, Brenton. Building a Religious empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
Weiner, Benno. 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.
2018
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.
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.
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.
2015
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.
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.
2014
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Ptackova, J. “The sedentarization process in Tibetan nomadic areas of Qinghai, China.” Mongolo-Tibetica Pragensia, Karlova Univerzita, Praha; 157–182.
