Population And Society In Contemporary Tibet

Author : Rong Ma
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789622092020

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Population and Society in Contemporary Tibet by Rong Ma Pdf

This extensive survey documents Tibetan society over five decades, including population structure in rural and urban areas, marriage and migration patterns, the maintenance of language and traditional culture, economic transitions relating to income and consumption habits, educational development, and the growth of civil society and social organizations. In addition to household surveys completed over twenty years, the book provides a systematic analysis of all available social and census data released by the Chinese government, and a thorough review of Western and Chinese literature on the topic. It is the first book on Tibetan society published in English by a mainland China scholar, and covers several sensitive issues in Tibetan studies, including population changes, Han migration into Tibetan areas, intermarriage patterns, and ethnic relations.--Ma Rong is a widely respected demographer and professor of sociology at Peking University. He spent five years in Inner Mongolia during the Cultural Revolution, and was one of the first Chinese students to study in the US after Deng Xiaoping's reforms, receiving his doctorate degree from Brown University.-- "The academic study of Tibet still suffers from a lack of accurate data and restrictions on access to Tibet for research. This very useful analysis will increase the quality of the discussion and help to correct many inaccurate Western impressions of Tibet." - Gerard Postiglione, University of Hong Kong-

Author : Barry Sautman,June Teufel Dreyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315289991

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Contemporary Tibet by Barry Sautman,June Teufel Dreyer Pdf

The subject of Tibet is highly controversial, and Tibet, as a political entity, is defined differently from source to source and audience to audience. The editors of this path-breaking, multidisciplinary study have gathered some of the leading scholars in Tibetan and ethnic studies to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Tibet question. "Contemporary Tibet" explores essential themes and issues concerning modern Tibet. It presents fresh material from various political viewpoints and data from original surveys and field research. The contributors consider such topics as representations and sovereignty, economic development and political conditions, the exile movement and human rights, historical legacies and international politics, identity issues and the local society. The individual chapters provide historical background as well as a general framework to examine Tibet's present situation in world politics, the relationship with China and the West, and prospects for the future.

Author : Geoff Childs
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047443506

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Tibetan Transitions by Geoff Childs Pdf

Tibetan Transitions uses the dual lenses of anthropology and demography to analyze population regulating mechanisms in traditional Tibetan societies, and to link recent fertility transitions with family systems, economic strategies, gender equity, and family planning ideologies.

Author : Foreign Culture Exchange Association of Tibet Autonomous Region,Xizang Zizhiqu dui wai wen hua jiao liu xie hui
Publisher : 五洲传播出版社
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Tibet (China)
ISBN : 7508510348

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Population of the Tibet Autonomous Region by Foreign Culture Exchange Association of Tibet Autonomous Region,Xizang Zizhiqu dui wai wen hua jiao liu xie hui Pdf

Author : Wang Lixiong,Tsering Shakya
Publisher : Verso
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133017363

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The Struggle for Tibet by Wang Lixiong,Tsering Shakya Pdf

Two leading thinkers argue against the Chinese occupation and the theocracy of Tibet.

Author : Ben Hillman,Gray Tuttle
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231540445

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Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang by Ben Hillman,Gray Tuttle Pdf

Despite more than a decade of rapid economic development, rising living standards, and large-scale improvements in infrastructure and services, China's western borderlands are awash in a wave of ethnic unrest not seen since the 1950s. Through on-the-ground interviews and firsthand observations, the international experts in this volume create an invaluable record of the conflicts and protests as they have unfolded—the most extensive chronicle of events to date. The authors examine the factors driving the unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang and the political strategies used to suppress them. They also explain why certain areas have seen higher concentrations of ethnic-based violence than others. Essential reading for anyone struggling to understand the origins of unrest in contemporary Tibet and Xinjiang, this volume considers the role of propaganda and education as generators and sources of conflict. It links interethnic strife to economic growth and connects environmental degradation to increased instability. It captures the subtle difference between violence in urban Xinjiang and conflict in rural Tibet, with detailed portraits of everyday individuals caught among the pressures of politics, history, personal interest, and global movements with local resonance.

Author : Jandáček, Petr,Hanker, Martin,Rýznar, Aleš,Mucha, Zbyněk
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788024644684

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Chapters from life of Tibetians by Jandáček, Petr,Hanker, Martin,Rýznar, Aleš,Mucha, Zbyněk Pdf

E-kniha Chapters from Lives of Tibetans byla napsána magisterskými a doktorskými studenty tibetanistiky jako přehled, respektive učební pomůcka pro bakalářské studenty, kteří se poprvé setkávají s výukou tibetských kulturních reálií. Jejím cílem je stručně rekapitulovat život Tibeťana od narození až do smrti a při tom se zaměřit na některé důležité aspekty tibetské kultury. V jedenácti kapitolách popisuje porod a péči o děti, přechodové rituály včetně svatby, rodinný život, zaměstnání, zábavu, příklady výročních a náboženských rituálů, smrt a pohřební rituály. Kromě toho chce publikace seznámit čtenáře s tibetskými termíny užívanými v daném kontextu a v literatuře, a dát tím náměty pro další četbu a konverzaci v tibetštině.

Author : A. Tom Grunfeld
Publisher : London : Zed Books ; Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015038920552

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The Making of Modern Tibet by A. Tom Grunfeld Pdf

Revised edition of a study first published in 1987, providing a general history of Tibet and focusing on the roots upon which the present country is being built. Topics include the Buddhist reformation, early foreign contacts, U.S.-Tibet ties, the relationship with China, and the 1950s revolt. Contains several bandw photos, plus an extensive index and bibliography. Paper edition (unseen) $24.95 Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Zhou Xiaohong
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811981982

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The Reconstruction of Chinese Sociology by Zhou Xiaohong Pdf

Tracing the evolution of Chinese Sociology from the late 1970s to the present day, the book aims to record the path of reconstruction, localization, change, and reform of Chinese Sociology through interviews with 40 Chinese top sociologists such as Su Guoxun, Zhou Xiaohong, Bian Yanjie, Zhao Dingxin, Zhou Xueguang et al. Divided into three sections, this insightful book is the best proof of the rapid development and overall improvement of the discipline since the reform and opening-up in China. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the restoration and reconstruction of Chinese Sociology, this book is expected to inspire the younger generation of sociology researchers and deepen public’s understanding of sociology.

Author : Pierre-Antoine Donnet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822018853465

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Tibet by Pierre-Antoine Donnet Pdf

Author : Li Peilin,Laurence Roulleau-Berger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136231032

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China's Internal and International Migration by Li Peilin,Laurence Roulleau-Berger Pdf

One consequence of China’s economic growth has been a massive increase in migration, both internal and external. Within China millions of rural workers have migrated to the cities. Outside China, many Chinese have migrated to other parts of the world, their remittances home often having a significant impact within China. Also, China’s increasing links to other parts of the world have led to a growth in migration to China, most interestingly recently migration from Africa. Based on extensive original research, this book examines a wide range of issues connected to Chinese migration.

Author : Jane E. Caple
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824878054

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Morality and Monastic Revival in Post-Mao Tibet by Jane E. Caple Pdf

The speed and extent of the Tibetan Buddhist monastic revival make it one of the most extraordinary stories of religious resurgence in post-Mao China. At the end of the 1970s, there were no working monasteries; within a decade, thousands had been reconstructed and repopulated. Most studies have focused on the political challenges facing Tibetan monasteries, emphasizing their relationship to the Chinese state. Yet, in their efforts to revive and develop their institutions, monks have also had to negotiate a rapidly changing society, playing a delicate balancing act fraught with moral dilemma as well as political danger. Drawing on the recent “moral turn” in anthropology, this volume, the first full-length ethnographic study of the subject, explores the social and moral dimensions of monastic revival and reform across a range of Geluk monasteries in northeast Tibet (Amdo/Qinghai Province) from the 1980s on. Author Jane Caple’s analysis shows that ideas and debates about how best to maintain the mundane bases of monastic Buddhism—economy and population—are intermeshed with those concerning the proper role and conduct of monks and the ethics of monastic-lay relations. Facing a shrinking monastic population, monks are grappling with the impacts of secular education, demographic transition, rising living standards, urbanization, and marketization, all of which have driven debates within Buddhism elsewhere and fueled perceptions of monastic decline. Some Tibetans—including monks—are even questioning the “good” of the mass form of monasticism that has been a distinctive feature of Tibetan society for hundreds of years. Given monastic Buddhism’s integral position in Tibetan community life and association with Tibetan identity, Caple argues that its precarity in relation to Tibetan society raises questions about its future that go well beyond the issue of religious freedom.

Author : Andrew Martin Fischer
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780739134399

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The Disempowered Development of Tibet in China by Andrew Martin Fischer Pdf

Series: Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture, Lexington Books Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Since the central government of China started major campaigns for western development in the mid-1990s, the economies of the Tibetan areas in Western China have grown rapidly and living standards have improved. However, grievances and protests have also intensified, as dramatically evidenced by the protests that spread across most Tibetan areas in spring 2008 and by the more recent wave of self-immolation protests that started in 2011. This book offers a detailed and careful exploration of this synergy between development and conflict in Tibet from the mid-1990s onwards, when rapid economic growth has occurred in tandem with a particularly assimilationist approach of integrating Tibet into China. Fischer argues that the intensified economic integration of Tibet into regional and national development strategies on these assimilationist terms, within a context of continued political disempowerment, and through the massive channeling of subsidies through Han Chinese dominated entities based outside the Tibetan areas, has accentuated various dynamics of subordination and marginalization faced by Tibetans of all social strata. Whether or not these dynamics are intended to be discriminatory, they effectively accentuate the discriminatory, assimilationist and disempowering characteristics of development, even while producing considerable improvements in the material consumption of local Tibetans. In particular, strong cultural, linguistic and political biases intensify ethnically-exclusionary dynamics among middle and upper strata of the Tibetan labor force, which is problematic considering the rapid shift of Tibetans out of agriculture and towards the highly subsidy-dependent sectors of the economy, especially in urban areas. The combination of these disempowering dynamics with the sheer speed of dislocating and disembedding social change provides important insights into recent tensions given that it has accentuated insecurity while restricting the ability of Tibetan communities to adapt in autonomous and self-determined ways. The study represents one of the only macro-level and systemic analyses of its kind in the scholarship on Tibet, based on accessible economic analysis and extensive interdisciplinary fieldwork. It also carries much interest for those interested in China and in the interactions between development, inequality, exclusion and conflict more generally.

Author : A.Tom Grunfeld
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317455844

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The Making of Modern Tibet by A.Tom Grunfeld Pdf

An account of Tibet and the Tibetan people that emphasises the political history of the 20th century. This book attempts to reach beyond the polemics by considering the various historical arguments, using archival material from several nations and drawing conclusions focused on available documents.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Buddha (The concept)
ISBN : CORNELL:31924081588224

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Journal of the Buddhist Text Society of India by Anonim Pdf