New article by Gyatso Marnyi, “For the Sake of Borderland Defense: The Creation of Qinghai Province on the Inner Asian frontier of Republican China”

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...

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 chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i... @columbiaup.bsky.social

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

Also of Inner Asian note: -Huatse Gyal on Shannon Ward's Amdo Lullaby -Giulia Cabras on @geraldroche.bsky.social Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet [email protected] on Matthew Kapstein's 2 vol. Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Tibetan Books read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...

Happy to see the advanced publication of my review of Yudru Tsomo's history of 20th C Kham, *Chieftains, Lamas, and Warriors* is now available from The Journal of Asian Studies. tinyurl.com/2wckc72w

CFP: Joint Conference of the Historical Society for 20th Century China and the Institute for Modern History, Academia Scinica Deadline: October 15 Please note that papers/panels can engage any aspect of China and/or Taiwan's long 20th Crntury All the info: hstcconline.org/announcements/

Happy to be recognized as a finalist for the @washingtonmonthly.com's Kukula Ward for my review of @ewong.bsky.social's At the Edge of Empire. Sincere thanks @jwassers.bsky.social, @bspivey.bsky.social, and @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social Read the Review 👇 lareviewofbooks.org/article/stra...

"The personal cost Tsering Döndrup has paid for ‘The Red Wind Howls’ is further evidence, if it were needed, of just how taboo his tale is." Christopher Peacock on Tsering Döndrup’s defiant reckoning with Tibet’s legacy of violence:

Job Announcement: History/Anthropology of Science, Technology and Medicine. The Department of History at Carnegie Mellon seeks to hire up to two scholars at the rank of assistant and/or associate professor. Please share and note Sep 15 deadline! Happy to answer Qs apply.interfolio.com/170040

Thanks @robbiebarnett.bsky.social for referring to work by @bennoweiner.bsky.social and me for this ChinaFile discussion on the Dalai Lama’s succession www.chinafile.com/conversation...

Thank you to all the participants of the 5th International Amdo Research Network workshop at the University of Leeds. Looking forward to continuing our conversations at IATS next summer in Kathmandu!

REMINDER: join us Tomorrow May 29 @4pm for the first ARN New Books on Amdo talk w/ authors Shannon Ward, Tim Thurston and moderator Huatse Gyal! Details 👇

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

ARN is happy to announce the inaugural *New Books on Amdo* talk. Join moderator Huatse Gyal as he discusses language politics in Amdo with Shannon Ward and Tim Thurston, authors of Amdo Lullaby and Satirical Tibet. Zoom: 4:00 PM (EST), May 29, register at: riceuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Appearing on the Sinica podcast was a bucket list sort of thing. Thanks to @kaiserkuo.bsky.social for having me on to talk about ethnopolitics in China. There's more I wish I had said, and some things I wish I had said differently, but give it a listen! www.sinicapodcast.com/p/live-at-pi...

NEW: Timothy Thurston’s book Satirical Tibet, another contribution to the thriving field of Amdo studies stephenjones.blog/2025/04/13/s...

It is difficult to stress how much an administrative (and in this case one that is clearly meant to fall in line with a rightwing fascist government) takeover of any department, let alone area studies, structurally threatens the core of academic freedom

Thrilled to be welcoming Professor Norkiko Unno (Osaka University) to Pittsburgh tomorrow, Wednesday March 12, for this fabulous looking talk. Thanks to the Asian Studies Center at UPitt for hosting. Details below.

And Ben's new book has just been announced: The Power of Publishing in Early Modern Tibetan Buddhism The press is offering 30% off rn with the code LXFANDF30 rowman.com/ISBN/9781666...

China’s push for Mandarin as a 'neutral' language clashes with Tibetan efforts to preserve their linguistic heritage. As pressures mount, the fight for language becomes a fight for identity, power, and cultural survival, writes Dak Lhagyal.

My book — Making the Invisible Real: Practices of Seeing in Tibetan Pilgrimage — now has a cover and is coming out April 25! Link: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Reminder: February 10 is the deadline for submitting paper proposal for the 5th Amdo Research Network conference, to be held at University of Leeds, June 23-25. Details 👇

She complained that life in Hangzhou was stressful and competitive. “But today I am Drolma,” she said, “a #Tibetan girl who is free and joyful and lives without care.” @jbher.bsky.social @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/24/c...

New Book 🚨!! The Politics of Sorrow, by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, uncovers the story of Amdo and Khampa chieftains and lamas who sought to protect local identities and traditions in exile rather than “embrace demands to shed regional allegiance and embrace national unity” @columbiaup.bsky.social

It may not be #ManuscriptMonday, but almost! This is an extraordinary 2-vol publication: Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Printed Books. Ed. by Matthew T. Kapstein. Cornell University Press. 2 vols. 368 pp., 491 color illustrations. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Important article by @robbiebarnett.bsky.social www.chinafile.com/reporting-op...

*The Red Wind Howls* Tsering Döndrup, tr. @christopherpeacock.bsky.social "Based on . . . interviews & archival sources," much of Döndrup's #novel "takes place in the labor camps where tens of thousands of Amdo #Tibetans were sent [. . . after] the 1958 rebellion." @bennoweiner.bsky.social

*My #Tibetan #Childhood: When Ice Shattered Stone* by Naktsang Nulo, tr Cargill & Lhamo "Unlike much of the #exile #literature," this English language #memoir depicts "not an idealized #Tibet but one filled with violence and injustice as well as community and faith." –– @bennoweiner.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce the 5th International Worskshop of the Amdo Research Network, “Amdo Traditions, Amdo Futures,” to be held at the University of Leeds, 23-25 June 2025. We welcome abstract of up to 150 words. Deadline 10 February. For more details: arn.orient.cas.cz/event/the-5t...

Nothing better than receiving not one but TWO beautiful new books in the mail on the same day! Longing to Awaken, edited by Holly Gayley and Dominique Towsend, and Yasmin Cho’s forthcoming Politics of Tranquility. Expect to see reviews of both in a future issue of JAS!

Happy to have received the 'electronic offprints' for my chapter in this exciting new edited volume. Even happier to learn that it will be coming out this spring. Absolutely stellar list of contributors. And what a wonderful cover! For more info: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Well, this is exciting!

ARN is pleased to announce the third volume of the series *Mapping Amdo*: "Dynamics of Relations and Interactions"- Open Access! w/ chapters on demographics, linguistics, reading practices, urbanization & resettlement, and history. tinyurl.com/5n7hjdpr