General Web and Email Resources for China-Tibet Studies
Remember that materials on the web MUST be evaluated as critically as any other texts we consider in this course. For brief guidelines on thinking critically about the web, click HERE.
Electronic Newsletter
For those who are particularly interested in keeping up with Tibetan affairs this semester, you may sign onto the World Tibet Network News Mailing List. This is a daily electronic newsletter which contains news and comments about Tibet from a variety of viewpoints.
To subscribe:
1) send an email to: listserv@lists.mcgill.ca
2) In the body of the message type: (SUB WTN-L your name)
They will send you a return email confirming your subscription.
To cancel:
1) send an email to: listserv@lists.mcgill.ca
2) In the body of the message type: (SIGNOFF WTN-L)
All articles published on WTN are archived on the web at: http://www.tibet.ca/wtnnews.htm
You can search the archive for articles related to any topic you're interested in.
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Chat Lists
You can also subscribe to email chat lists about Tibet-related topics. Two such lists are:
Tibet-L: General discussion list on all matters related to Tibet, unmoderated.
To subscribe:
1) send email to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU with the command (paste it!):SUBSCRIBE TIBET-L
The Students for a Free Tibet "Yak" List: Discussion list on Tibet issues among students worldwide.
To subscribe:
1) send an email to: majordomo@cyborganic.org
2) In the body of the message type: subscribe sft-yak
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General Links for Tibetan Studies
(See weekly links on class schedule for sites specific to weekly topics)
International Sites
• World Tibet Network News
Daily electronic newsletter which contains news and comments about Tibet from a variety of viewpoints. You can subscribe to get an emailed newsletter. See Web and Email Resources. http://www.tibet.ca/wtnnews.htm
• China News Digest
fairly neutral online newsletter managed by overseas Chinese volunteers in Maryland. http://my.cnd.org/modules/news/index.php?storytopic=2
• Tibetan Studies WWW Virtual Library
http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-TibetanStudies.html
• Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library.
Based at the University of Viriginia, has links about all aspects of Tibetan language and culture. http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/tibet/
• Students for a Free Tibet,
Has a "Tibetan Women Speak Out" page: http://www.studentsforafreetibet.org/
• Tibet Online:
Has list of major Tibet sites and Online Tibet resources. http://www.Tibet.org
• Tibet Information Network.
Excellent independent news coverage on Tibet. http://www.tibetinfo.net/
• Human Rights Watch.
Coverage on China and Tibet: http://hrw.org/doc?t=asia&c=china
• Human Rights in China.
Recently produced huge website under auspices of CND. Has links on Tibet, ethnic groups in China, photos and more. http://www.humanrights-China.org/
• Inside China Today
Overseas Chinese magazine, produced outside of PRC control, has links to non-PRC news re: http://www.insidechina.com
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Chinese Websites
• China's Tibet
Online version of PRC figurehead glossy magazine on Chinese state accomplishments among Tibetans. Published in Chinese and English.
http://www.tibet-china.org/indexE.html
Alison Grande (Anth 362 Spr 02) Web Review
• PRC Govt. White Papers.
These are official statements of PRC policy on a wide variety of issues.
http://www.china.org.cn/e-white/
• China Education and News Network
Chinese site, in Chinese, http://www.net.edu.cn/
• China Today
Chinese state-sponsored magazine: http://www.chinatoday.com/
• People's Daily.
PRC main newspaper. http://english.peopledaily.com.cn
• China Web.
Chinese produced site providing excerpts of Xinhua and People's Daily newspaper articles in English, has many links on Tibetans: http://www.china.org.cn/
Micha Rahder (Anth 362 Spr 02) Web Review
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Visual Resources on Tibet
• The Tibetan Photo Project
The Tibetan Photo Project offers the first collection of photos taken by Tibetans living in exile, images of the Dalai Lama, informational texts and rare 1932 pictures of Tibet http://www.tibetanphotoproject.com/home.html
• Linthro Project
Rob Linthro's site w/annotated photos of Tibet from 1940s http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/asianstudies/TibetanPhotos/Snaps.html
• Digital Himalaya Photo Collections
A project to develop digital collection, storage,
and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological
information from the Himalayan region
http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/index.php
• TIBET VISUAL HISTORY ONLINE
The Tibet Visual History Online website presents 400 images selected from the Pitt Rivers Museum's extensive collection of [over 4,000 historical - ed.] photographs taken by British colonial officials in Tibet between 1908 and 1950. This project aims to make the Museum's photograph collections from Tibet and their history accessible to a global audience. http://www.visualtibet.org/
• THE TIBET MUSEUM
The Tibet museum was established in Dharamsala with the aim of presenting Tibet’s history and visions for its future through texts, photographs, videos and installations. http://www.thetibetmuseum.org/
• HIMALAYAN ART
The purpose of the Himalayan Art Project is to exhibit and catalog Himalayan and Tibetan art from collections around the world with the long term goal of creating a comprehensive and definitive archive. The artworks now exhibited on the project's site include paintings, sculpture, block prints, initiation cards and murals, outnumbering all Himalayan art currently displayed in Western museums. THE NEWARK MUSEUM, NEWARK, NJ
Discover the most extraordinary collection of Tibetan art and historical photographs in the Western Hemisphere through this virtual tour. http://www.newarkmuseum.org/tibet_zone/tour
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