Books on Reserve (Fall 2005)

Multiple copies of these books are on reserve in the library. Many of these books are also available in the bookstore. See Course Book List.

See Class Schedule for specific required and supplementary readings from these books, as well as articles and excerpts on reserve in folders in the library.

Week One

• Lopez, Donald. Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. (4 copies)
• Goldstein, Melvyn: The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama. Berkeley: Univ. of CA Press, 1997. (4 copies)
• Bishop, Peter. The Myth of Shangri-La. 1989 (1 copy)

Week Two

• Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso, 1983.

Week Three

• Duara, Prasenjit. Rescuing History From the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995
• Hevia, James. Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.
• Brown, ed. Negotiating Ethnicities in China and Taiwan. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 1996. (4 copies of book)
• Harrell, Stevan. Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1995. (4 copies)

Week Four

• Golstein, Melvyn. The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama.Berkeley: Univ. of CA Press, 1997. 4 copies
• Goldstein, Melvyn. A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. 4 copies
• Goldstein, Siebenschuh and Tashing Tsering. The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering. NY: ME Sharpe, 1997. 4 copies
• Schwartz, Ronald, Circle of Protest: Political Ritual in the Tibetan Uprising. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.(4 copies)

Week Five

• Nira Yuval Davis. Gender and Nation. Sage: London, 1997.
• Wolf, Margery. Revolution Postponed Women in Contemporary China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985.
• Enloe, Cynthia. Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics, 1989. (4 copies)
• Ama Adhe (with Joy Blakeslee). Ama Adhe, the Voice That Remembers: The Heroic Story of a Woman's Fight to Free Tibet. Wisdom Publications, 1997. (4 copies)

Week Six

• Shakya, Tsering. The Dragon in the Land of the Snows. NY: Columbia University Press, 1999.
• Evans and Donald, (Eds.), Picturing Power in the People's Republic of China: Posters of the Cultural Revolution. Oxford: Rowan and Littlefield, 1999.
• Goldstein, Siebenschuh and Tashing Tsering. The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering. NY: ME Sharpe, 1997.

Week Seven

• Shakya, Tsering. The Dragon in the Land of the Snows. NY: Columbia University Press, 1999 (80 pp). )
• Goldstein, Siebenschuh and Tashing Tsering. The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering. NY: ME Sharpe, 1997.

Week Eight

• Escobar, Arturo. Encountering development : the making and unmaking of the Third World. Princeton, 1995.
• Clarke, Graham, ed., Development, Society and Environment in Tibet. Proceedings of the 7th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Graz, (1995), Wien 1998.

Week Nine

• Davis, Deborah and Stevan Harrel. Eds., Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
• Song of the Snow Lion: New Writing from Tibet, Manoa 12(2), 2000.
• Ginsburg and Rapp, (Eds.) Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction. Berkeley: Univ. of CA Press, 1995.

Week Ten

• Keyes, Kendall and Hardacre, eds. Asian Visions of Authority: Religion and the Modern States of East and Southeast Asia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994.
• Schwartz, Ronald. Circle of Protest: Political Ritual in the Tibetan Uprising. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994
• Barnett, ed. Resistance and Reform in Tibet. London: Hurst and Co., 1994.
• Song of the Snow Lion: New Writing from Tibet, Manoa 12(2), 2000.

Weeks Eleven-Twelve

• Dutton. Streetlife China. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998
• Honig and Hershatter, Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980's. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.
• Melissa J. Brown, (Ed.), Negotiating Ethnicities in China and Taiwan. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 1996.
• Goldstein, Siebenschuh and Tashing Tsering. The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering. NY: ME Sharpe, 1997.

Week Thirteen

• Chen, et al, eds. China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture. Duke University Press, 2001.
• Song of the Snow Lion: New Writing from Tibet, Manoa 12(2), 2000.

Week Fourteen

• Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization.Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
• Goldstein, Melvyn. The Snow Lion and The Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
• Lopez, Donald. Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

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