In 1928, the eldest two sons of President Theodore Roosevelt set out to capture or kill a giant panda. Their hunting trip accidentally contributed to the cause of wildlife conservation. Read Kevin Schoenmaker's review of Nathalia Holt, "The Beast in the Clouds": chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/02/p...

“Ocean, As Much As Rain: Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from #Tibet” By Tsering Woeser @woeser.bsky.social Available for Preorder @dukepress.bsky.social Beautiful cover art by Tenzing Rigdol, foreword by Pankaj Mishra. Publication date Feb 10, 2026! Info: highpeakspureearth.com/ocean-as-muc...

Sarah Magnatta – Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Art – introduces her Art essay in our latest issue, Wasafiri 123. As part of the issue's special section on Tibet, she writes on artist Tenzing Rigdol's exhibition BIOGRAPHY OF A THOUGHT, held at the MET in 2024.

Ocean, As Much As Rain: Stories, Lyrical Prose & Poems from Tibet by Tsering Woeser @woeser.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social, out Feb 10, '26. Preorder by Nov 9 for 50% off! US www.dukeupress.edu/ocean-as-muc... CA utpdistribution.com/978147803311... EU, UK+ mngbookshop.co.uk/978147803311...

Opening November 20 at MOA → Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images. 🖼️✨  This feature exhibition reimagines Tibet by showing how it has been represented historically by outsiders, and how Tibetans themselves now present and talk about Tibet. https://f.mtr.cool/gaseegniwd

Opening next month at Vancouver's Museum of Anthropology and on view through our #AAS2026 dates, "Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images" will surely be a must-visit for conference attendees!

China sacks officials over viral Arc'teryx fireworks show in Tibet www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of the banned Tibetan novel, now in English, "The Red Wind Howls": chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...

Listen to Timothy Thurston talk about "Satirical Tibet" on Ep. 25 of the China Books Podcast: chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/07/e...

Tibetans inside China have found various ways to push back against Beijing and voice their dissatisfaction. A lesser-known form of subtle resistance is the art of “zurza,” or satirical repartee. Listen to Timothy Thurston on Ep. 25 of the China Books Podcast: chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/07/e...

I started to read this piece on #Tibet #YarlungTsangpo Dam expecting to learn more about #China govt approach to hydro, but there is a great deal more here on #politics #power #security, too. madeinchinajournal.com/2025/09/04/t...

Over 1.5 yrs ago, Pasang Yangjee Sherpa invited me to UBC, and Mabel Gergan, and Dolly Kikon, began talking about the question of Indigeneity and belonging in Nepal and Northeast India, and whether and how that frames our work. Fast forward 18 months and here we are! October 22nd, Madison, WI.

My favourite film from TIFF was Kunsang Kyirong's ‘100 Sunset’, about a young, almost mute, Tibetan-Canadian woman who steals a camcorder to spy on people in her apartment building. It felt so fresh and full of energy and thrillingly unpredictable. You can read my FIPRESCI essay about it here:

OUT NOW: This volume offers a unique glimpse into the world of khashag, a vibrant genre of Tibetan spoken comic dialogues from the area Tibetans call Amdo, with the first ever publication of 11 annotated translations of scripts by its leading performer, Menla Jyab. buff.ly/8vKJECp

Beijing is threatening to imprison student-activist Zhang Yadi for years for speaking out against racial injustice and peacefully exercising her rights. She should be starting graduate school in London, not jail. Governments should press for her freedom. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Chinese authorities have launched an investigation after a fireworks show in Tibet sponsored by the outdoor gear maker Arc’teryx sparked a backlash on social media because of concern about the effect on the environment

Massive fireworks show in #Tibet for ad stunt by Apparel brand Arc’teryxtriggers blowback over environment fears. Under the restrictive Chinese regime how did #Chinese artist Cai Guo-qiang get the permit in the first place? www.scmp.com/news/china/p...

#Arcteryx apologies for the atrocities that they committed by blaming “the Chinese team,” as if they’re not owned by a Chinese company.

What will happen when the spiritual leader of Tibet dies? Our “Drum Tower” podcast examines the Dalai Lama succession struggle

By Tsering Döndrup: "A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao's campaigns in the wake of the Amdo Rebellion of 1958." #Tibet #literature in #translation chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i... @chinabooksreview.com @vivianwu.bsky.social

We are thrilled to showcase a special focus on Tibet in our latest issue, Wasafiri 123. Many Tibets are displayed here. Old and new, sacred and secular, real and imagined, lost and found.' - Editorial by @sanagoyal.bsky.social Wasafiri 123 is available to order now: buff.ly/89LLR9Q

Mostly non-pro actors are fine, superbly directed. The way the story is stealthily structured, how it compresses and expands, and comes together in a rush of karma and sense and joy is just remarkable. The best Canadian debut feature of 2025, I bet. 2/2

Kunsang Kyirong: 100 SUNSET (TIFF 2025). Beautiful first feature set in Toronto’s Tibetan community centre: Parkdale. Kunsang's eye is unerring: she transforms my dull dull Toronto into a place with cinematic character, like few other filmmakers have managed to do. 1/2

Please check out my review of Tsering Döndrup’s magnificent and important novel, *The Red Wind Howls* (tr. Chris Peacock) in @chinabooksreview.com (then read the book!) Thanks to editors @alexludoboyd.bsky.social and @alecash.net

A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao’s campaigns in the wake of the 1958 Amdo Rebellion. Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of "The Red Wind Howls" by Tsering Döndrup: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...

Interview with Dr. Gyal Lo: Tibetan Children Are Becoming "Strangers in Their Own Homes" "What China is providing is not even a formal education. It's assimilation. It’s indoctrination."

Meet Bruce! One of his humans, Frederick Williamson, was a British diplomat, so Bruce got to meet some very important people from Sikkim, Bhutan, and Tibet. Here he is making friends with the Sikkim Crown Prince Kunzang Paljor Namgyal. Like if you think Bruce is a good boy! #InternationalDogDay

The next Inner #Asia #Colloquium is coming! Join the talk on 📆 2 September at 10:00 CEST (bit.ly/4mguLhA) to learn how #cadre management shapes #China’s strategy for governing #Tibet in #XiJinping’s ‘New Era’: www.remote-xuar.com/events/stabi... 🎤 Speaker: @doctordev.bsky.social

A Bangkok exhibition exploring state violence and resistance, which included artists from Tibet and Hong Kong, was altered due to a risk of “creating diplomatic tensions between Thailand and China.”

China to restrict Tibetan language in college entrance exam on.ft.com/4lmJgjb

Excellent article about Tibet from the Globe & Mail this morning. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

China’s forced toponym changes in Xinjiang – Language Log languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=70278

Construction on Tibetan Megadam Fuels Ecological and Social Concerns "Reports show that the construction of almost 200 dams in Tibet is causing 'irreparable damage' to Tibetan communities, downstream countries, and the environment."

The Dalai Lama, who just turned 90, writes in his memoir that he will reincarnate in the “free world.” But will his political, religious and moral power transfer with him? Read @tshakya.bsky.social review of "Voice for the Voiceless" by the Dalai Lama: chinabooksreview.com/2025/07/24/d...

"Tibetan nomadic life is the heartbeat of Tsering Döndrup’s fiction, and ‘Black Fox Valley’ charts the forced decline of an entire way of existence that has persisted uninterrupted for centuries." Christopher Peacock writes:

"Censored in China, Tsering Döndrup’s vivid and excoriating THE RED WIND HOWLS recounts the decadeslong Communist clampdown in Amdo, a multiethnic region of northeastern Tibet roughly the size of France."-Sam Sacks, @wsj.com. buff.ly/Ww013Sz #TibetanVoices #BannedBooks #ReadUP #TheRedWindHowls

In 'Crafting a Tibetan Terroir', Brendan Galipeau explores how wine is reshaping landscapes and livelihoods in the Sino-Tibetan border region known as Shangri-La. From missionary vines to luxury tourism, it is a story of modernity, identity, and global capitalism. A conversation with Dechen Pemba.

📚 Publication of Vol. 4.1 of the Journal of Tibetan Literature. The JTL is an open-access academic journal dedicated to publishing research, translations, and criticism on all aspects of Tibetan-language texts. More details here www.journaloftibetanliterature.org/index.php/jtl #tibet #tibetanstudies

Dalai Lama says there will be search for his successor after his death, ending years of speculation

A Close-up View of a #Tibetan Typewriter by Buddhist Digital Resource Center www.bdrc.io/blog/2025/06...

Tibetan Musical Notation Is Beautiful

Today marks Saga Dawa Düchen, one of the most sacred days in the Tibetan calendar, honoring the Buddha’s birth, awakening, and parinirvāṇa.’ This year, under the theme “The Power of Wisdom,” we’re celebrating with a special focus on the Perfection of Wisdom (Prajñāpāramitā) teachings.

A History of Uyghur Buddhism: A Conversation with Johan Elverskog @madeinchinajournal.com madeinchinajournal.com/2025/06/10/a...

🧵 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐓𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐭. These works explore Tibet’s cultural, political, and spiritual shifts—examining Buddhist commodification, literary portrayals, Chinese rule, satire, and meditation. We'd love to feature reviews of these titles in @asiancha.bsky.social. If interested, please email [email protected].

Excited to have received an advanced copy of Tsering Döndrup’s remarkable novel, The Red Wind Howls, which recounts the Maoist period in the Amdo grasslands. Truly a must read, thanks to Chris Peacock for the English trans. of this essential story. Highly recommended @columbiaup.bsky.social

Our profile of Nam Kyi, a young Tibetan activist, who spent 3 years in a Chinese prison. Upon release she found herself in a bigger prison, where she constantly monitored. So she escaped to India, joining a dwindling number of Tibetans who have sought refuge there 🎁link: www.wsj.com/world/china/...

From peach blossom fields to oxygen supplies on trains: What CNN found on visiting tightly guarded Tibet cnn.it/4lXASYW

#ManuscriptMonday Jesuits in Tibet edition. First page of Jesuit Missionary and early Tibetologist Ippolito Desideri's fascinating early 18th-c treatise _Inquiry concerning the Doctrines of Previous Lives and Emptiness, Offered to the Scholars of Tibet by the Star Head Lama called Ippolito_ 1/

#Vietnam: We are gravely concerned over reports of the death in custody of Tibetan writer and educator, Humkar Dorje Rinpoche. PEN International joins PEN #Tibet and PEN Vietnam in calling for a transparent investigation. Read our joint statement⬇️ www.pen-international.org/news/vietnam...