Web Resources
- General info and databases
- News and entertainment media
- NGOs and activist organizations
- Official government sites
- Blogs
- 2008 Beijing Olympics
- Documentary and feature films
- Arts
- Commercial Tibetan products
General info and databases
- YouTube video playlists for Anth364
- Tibet on Flickr (Thousands of recent photos by tourists, journalists, artists, activists, etc)
- Tibetan Studies WWW Virtual Library (collection of links and information, curated by an Australian academic)
- Tibet Online (List of major Tibet sites and online resources, works with the Tibetan gov't in exile)
- Columbia Online Research Guide for Modern Tibetan Studies (bibliographies and other resources from Columbia University)
- Center for Research on Tibet (projects and references from the anthropology dept. at Case Western)
- China Media Project (examining Chinese journalism, from the University of Hong Kong)
- Tibetan and Himalayan Library (research and web hosting on regional culture and issues, supported by the University of Virginia - in transition from older version)
- Latse Contemporary Tibetan Cultural Library (literature and image databases, from the Trace Foundation)
- Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library (multimedia database)
- Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (image and text database)
- Imaginechina (database of news photo agency, headquartered in Shanghai)
- The Tibet Album: British photography in Central Tibet 1920-1950 (curated by the University of Oxford and the British Museum)
News and entertainment media
- China Central Television (Chinese state-run television)
- Phayul (News service from Tibetan exiles in India)
- Tibet Custom (Dharamsala-based news service from Tibetan exiles)
- China News Digest (Fairly neutral online newsletter managed by overseas Chinese volunteers in Maryland, English translation available for 2003 and earlier)
- Inside China Today (Overseas Chinese magazine, produced outside of PRC control, has links to non-PRC news regarding China)
- Radio Free Asia (past US propaganda apparatus, currently an independent corporation - includes Tibetan language service)
- People's Daily Online (news from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China)
- China Tibet Online
- Focus on Tibet (From Xinhua, PRC news agency)
- China Tibet Information Center (news service based in Beijing)
- China News (Chinese state site)
- China Education and News Network (Chinese site, in Chinese)
- China Economic Net (Political and market news, based in Beijing with ties to PRC government)
- China Digital Times (sponsored by the U.C. Berkeley China Internet Project)
- SINA (sponsored by tech corporations and PRC press agency)
- Contact Magazine (Dharamsala-based digest of Tibetan news founded in 1997 by three westerners)
- Tibetan Review (independent magazine out of New Delhi)
- eChinacities (News by locality, also an expat section)
- National Public Radio (U.S. non-profit radio news)
- "Chinese Americans Split On Olympic Pride" - Aug. 7, 2008
- "A Conversation with the Dalai Lama" - Apr. 14, 2008
- The Guardian - Tibet (British newspaper online news)
NGOs and activist organizations
- International Tibet Support Network (international coalition of pro-Tibet NGOs, based in London)
- Students for a Free Tibet (international network of pro-Tibet student groups, originally based in New York City)
- Canada Tibet Committee (Tibetan-Canadian activist NGO)
- Chinese Students and Scholars Associations (generally pro-China, Google search lists US and international groups based at universities)
- Tibetan Youth Congress (Tibetan nationalist group, founded in 1970 under the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala)
- Tibetan Women's Association (international network of chapters, based in Dharamsala)
- Tibet Society (group supporting the Tibetan nationalist movement, out of the UK)
- International Campaign for Tibet (activist and lobbyist group, based in Washington D.C.)
- Human Rights China (Informational and news website under auspices of CND, based in Beijing. Has links on Tibet, ethnic groups in China, photos and more. Also in Chinese.)
- Jonang Foundation (supports preservation of Tibetan Buddhist culture, non-profit status in the US)
- Foundation for Universal Responsibility (Dalai Lama's interfaith world peace effort)
- TibetBridges (Tibet-specific web hosting)
- Gay Tibet (news and social networking for gay Tibetans, associated with Free Tibet movement, inactive but has blogger archive 2006-09)
Official government sites
- Chinese embassy (Washington D.C.)
- Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China (in Chinese)
- Government of Tibet in Exile
- Central Tibetan Administration
- The Office of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
Blogs
- Tibet Blogs (directory of Tibetan blogs, links to Free Tibet movement)
- China Blog List (List of Chinese blogs in English, mantained by an American in Shanghai)
- Chinalyst (List of Chinese blogs in English, maintained by a Hong Kong grad student)
- Twitter (social networking communication site, used for news dissemination and organizing)
- Search by topic
- Journalists' Guide To Finding Tibet Twitters (broken link, see Google cache)
- Fanfou (Chinese-language clone of Twitter)
- Life on the Tibetan Plateau (blog run by Tibet tour guide)
- Stupid Pig's Part-Time China Blog (political economy from a Beijing blogger, graduate of UC Berkeley)
- Shadow Tibet (blog by Jamyang Norbu, writer and Tibetan nationalist activist)
- Invisible Tibet - Woeser's blog (in Chinese, prominent dissident Tibetan based in Beijing)
- Mysterious China Blog (news and culture from a Han Chinese in Mongolia)
- High Peaks Pure Earth (commentary on Tibet issues)
- Agam's Gecko (human rights coverage from a Bangkok blogger)
- Tibet Writes (political commentary and personal accounts, "a not-for-profit site dedicated to Tibet and Tibetan people")
- Fool's Mountain: Blogging for China (news and history, lots of discussion in post comments)
- Lost Laowai (American? expat bloggers in China)
- Mask of China (Canadian blogger in Dalian and Hong Kong)
- CN Reviews (Business and culture in China by US-educated Chinese entrepreneurs)
- The Peking Duck (commentary by an American in Beijing)
- EastSouthWestNorth (English translations of Chinese news articles)
- Global Voices Online: China (news and commentary from international network of volunteer bloggers)
- China Law Blog (legal news and commentary by international corporate law firm Harris & Moure)
- China Government Watch (political commentary by a Washington D.C. law student)
- The China Beat (meta-media analysis from China scholars of Western news on China)
2008 Beijing Olympics
- The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games (from the PRC)
- International Olympic Committee - Beijing 2008 (official news and statements)
- 2008 Olympics Wikipedia page (good collection of news articles in context, see the references)
- Reporters Without Borders (international network of activist journalists covering media and free speech issues around the Olympics)
- Olympic Watch (Czech watchdog group and human rights campaign)
- Free Tibet 2008 (Students for a Free Tibet page specific to the Olympics)
- Olympics forum (general discussion, searchable)
- Coca-Cola letter to Free Tibet Campaign (major Olympic sponsor responds to activists)
Documentary and feature films
- Tibet Film Archive (non-profit preservationist organization, based in NYC)
- Koknor Film Archive
- "Trouble in Exile" (Dateline documentary piece from 2006, 25mins)
- "Milarepa" (legend of an 11th century Buddhist mystic, directed by a Tibetan lama)
- "Leaving Fear Behind" (2008 documentary with Tibetan testimony concerning the Olympics, 25 mins)
- "Recollecting Tibet" (2008 documentary of Tibetans in exile)
- "Tibetan Refugee" (Testimony from Tibetans in exile, ~50 mins)
- "Unmade in China" (Film arguing for Tibetan independence in response to the Olympics)
- "Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion" (Documentary on history and politics of Tibet, ~100 mins)
- "Missing in Tibet" (documentary on Ngawang Choephel, Tibetan exile arrested by China, ~30 mins)
- "Voices in Exile" (2005 documentary on exiled Tibetans)
- "Give me back the natural scenery" (documentary on development in China)
- "Yeti" (2008 online documentary about nonviolent Tibetan freedom movement and the Olympics, 30 mins, watch on Youtube)
- "Distorted Propaganda" (2006, historical documentary from indy filmmaker in Tibet about Chinese propaganda campaigns)
Arts
- The Plateau Music Project (effort to preserve Tibetan music, volunteer project from the English Training Program at Qinghai Normal University in the PRC
- Tibetan Music World (Collections of the most recent Tibetan music videos both in Tibet and across the diaspora)
- The Atlas of Tibetan Medicine (high quality images of a Tibetan thanaka)
- Robert Powell (illustrations of architecture)
- Hemlata Pradhan (Himalayan botanical illustrations)
- Art Scene China (Contemporary Chinese art)
- Mechak Center for Contemporary Tibetan Art
- Online Exhibition of Contemporary Tibetan Paintings of the Lhasa Train (Peaceful Wind Gallery, Santa Fe)
- Online Exhibition of Contemporary Tibetan Paintings (Peaceful Wind Gallery, Santa Fe)
- Chinese Art Prize (emerging Chinese contemporary art)
- ChinaSite.com: Arts (list of Chinese art sites)
- Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (see Reed's copies)
- Himalayan Art Resources (large image database)
- NYU Arts of China Consortium (list of image archives)
- Culturebase (international artist database)
- China Fashion Week 2009 (from China Economic Net)
- Lakar by Kelsang Tsomo (fashion line inspired by Tibetan style)
- chinaSMACK (Chinese news and cultural analysis)
- China Fashion & Lifestyles (news and commentary)
- Hefner Collection (contemporary Chinese oil painting collection)
Commercial Tibetan products
- China Apparel & Textile (info on manufacturers)
- Garuda Trading (Tibetan Buddhist practice supplies)
- Tibet Spirit (online shop, Tibetan arts and crafts shop on Hawthorne in Portland)
- Tibetan Bead (online shop, jewelry, prayer paraphernalia)
- Secret Tibetan Lubricant controversy (from EastSouthWestNorth)