Amdo Research Network
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The mission of the Amdo Research Network (ARN) is to connect scholars and advance research on the multicultural region of Amdo.
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Mapping Amdo: Language Diversity in Amdo. Changes and Challenges - Amdo Research Network
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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
New article by Gyatso Marnyi, “For the Sake of Borderland Defense: The Creation of Qinghai Province on the Inner Asian frontier of Republican China”
New Issue of 20th Century China, includes two must-read articles on Inner Asia:
Gyatso Marnyi on "The Creation of Qinghai Province on the Inner Asian Frontier of Republican China," and
@bhales06.bsky.social on "The Cleansing of the Class Ranks Campaign in Altay, 1968–1972." muse.jhu.edu/issue/55629
Gyatso Marnyi on "The Creation of Qinghai Province on the Inner Asian Frontier of Republican China," and
@bhales06.bsky.social on "The Cleansing of the Class Ranks Campaign in Altay, 1968–1972." muse.jhu.edu/issue/55629
Project MUSE - Twentieth-Century China-Volume 50, Number 3, October 2025
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October 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
New article by Gyatso Marnyi, “For the Sake of Borderland Defense: The Creation of Qinghai Province on the Inner Asian frontier of Republican China”
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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...
September 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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...
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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
(then read the book!)
Thanks to editors @alexludoboyd.bsky.social and @alecash.net
chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
@columbiaup.bsky.social
Ill Winds In Tibet | China Books Review
A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao's campaigns in the wake of the Amdo Rebellion of 1958.
chinabooksreview.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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
(then read the book!)
Thanks to editors @alexludoboyd.bsky.social and @alecash.net
chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
@columbiaup.bsky.social
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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
(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...
Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of "The Red Wind Howls" by Tsering Döndrup: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
chinabooksreview.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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
(then read the book!)
Thanks to editors @alexludoboyd.bsky.social and @alecash.net
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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
-@andrewquintman.bsky.social on Matthew Kapstein's 2 vol. Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Tibetan Books
read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...
-Huatse Gyal on Shannon Ward's Amdo Lullaby
-Giulia Cabras on @geraldroche.bsky.social Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet
-@andrewquintman.bsky.social on Matthew Kapstein's 2 vol. Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Tibetan Books
read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...
Advance Publication | Journal of Asian Studies | Duke University Press
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September 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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
-@andrewquintman.bsky.social on Matthew Kapstein's 2 vol. Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Tibetan Books
read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...
-Huatse Gyal on Shannon Ward's Amdo Lullaby
-Giulia Cabras on @geraldroche.bsky.social Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet
-@andrewquintman.bsky.social on Matthew Kapstein's 2 vol. Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Tibetan Books
read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...
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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
Chieftains, Lamas, and Warriors: A History of Kham, 1905–1961
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September 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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
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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/
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/
Announcements
Call for Papers International Conference Jointly Organized by the Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China and the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica Taiwan Reframing Modern Histori…
hstcconline.org
September 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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/
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/
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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...
Read the Review 👇
lareviewofbooks.org/article/stra...
Straining Nation or Expansionist Empire? | Los Angeles Review of Books
Benno Weiner reviews Edward Wong’s “At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China.”
lareviewofbooks.org
August 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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...
Read the Review 👇
lareviewofbooks.org/article/stra...
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"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:
Christopher Peacock on Tsering Döndrup’s defiant reckoning with Tibet’s legacy of violence:
Tsering Döndrup’s defiant reckoning with Tibet’s legacy of violence
I FIRST MET Tsering Döndrup at his home in Xining – the largest city on the Tibetan Plateau, located in Qinghai province in western China. This was in early 201
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July 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"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:
Christopher Peacock on Tsering Döndrup’s defiant reckoning with Tibet’s legacy of violence:
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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
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
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July 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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
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
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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...
July 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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!
June 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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 👇
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...
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...
May 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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 👇
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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
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Truly a must read, thanks to Chris Peacock for the English trans. of this essential story. Highly recommended
@columbiaup.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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
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...
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...
May 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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...
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...
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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...
www.sinicapodcast.com/p/live-at-pi...
Live at Pitt: CMU's Benno Weiner on the Evolution of China's Minzu Policy
This week on Sinica, in a show recorded at the University of Pittsburgh, I speak with Benno Weiner, Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, about how China's policy toward its mi...
www.sinicapodcast.com
May 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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...
www.sinicapodcast.com/p/live-at-pi...
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NEW: Timothy Thurston’s book Satirical Tibet, another contribution to the thriving field of Amdo studies
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Satirical Tibet
*Furthering my education in the travails of modern Tibet* Within the Tibetan cultural world, research on the Amdo region (see e.g. here) has become a remarkably dynamic field of scholarship. A fine…
stephenjones.blog
April 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM
NEW: Timothy Thurston’s book Satirical Tibet, another contribution to the thriving field of Amdo studies
stephenjones.blog/2025/04/13/s...
stephenjones.blog/2025/04/13/s...
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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
"Columbia agreed to ban masks, empower 36 campus police officers with new powers to arrest students and appoint a senior vice provost with broad authority to oversee the department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies as well as the Center for Palestine Studies."
This is just the worst week. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
March 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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
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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.
March 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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.
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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...
The Power of Publishing in Early Modern Tibetan Buddhism
The press is offering 30% off rn with the code LXFANDF30
rowman.com/ISBN/9781666...
The Power of Publishing in Early Modern Tibetan Buddhism
This book explores the historical and religious dynamics that led to the “golden age” of Tibetan printing in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It also examines the Mahāyāna Buddhist i...
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March 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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...
The Power of Publishing in Early Modern Tibetan Buddhism
The press is offering 30% off rn with the code LXFANDF30
rowman.com/ISBN/9781666...
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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.
Navigating Linguistic Hierarchies in Tibet
China’s complex linguistic landscape reveals deep tensions between the state’s push for the use of Mandarin and the preservation of minority languages like Tibetan. As Mandarin is promoted as a neutra...
globalchinapulse.net
February 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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.
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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...
Link: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
February 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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...
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 👇
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
Mapping Amdo: Language Diversity in Amdo. Changes and Challenges - Amdo Research Network
tinyurl.com
February 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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 👇
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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...
@jbher.bsky.social @foreignpolicy.com
foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/24/c...
How Tourism Trapped Tibet
The region is becoming a theme park for the Chinese nation.
foreignpolicy.com
January 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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...
@jbher.bsky.social @foreignpolicy.com
foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/24/c...
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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
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
January 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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
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