Robert Barnett
@robbiebarnett.bsky.social
Professor & Senior Research Associate, SOAS University of London; Affiliate Lecturer, Kings College London; Modern Tibetan Studies, Columbia 1998-2018
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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
🎤 Speaker: @doctordev.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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
🎤 Speaker: @doctordev.bsky.social
China has announced that from next month, Tibetan will no longer be a subject in the annual National College Entrance Examination (高考 gaokao), China's most important test for high school students. According to the announcement (www.scio.gov.cn/live/2025/36...):
www.scio.gov.cn
August 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
China has announced that from next month, Tibetan will no longer be a subject in the annual National College Entrance Examination (高考 gaokao), China's most important test for high school students. According to the announcement (www.scio.gov.cn/live/2025/36...):
Benno Weiner's talk on the history of Sino-Tibetan borderlands, focusing on "pluralistic promises" vs "revolutionary impatience" in Amdo: Friday 18th Jul at 15:00 CET (9am EST, 2pm UK, 630 IST). www.remote-xuar.com/events/makin...
Making Minorities on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands of Socialist China | Remote
Inner Asia Colloquium
www.remote-xuar.com
July 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Benno Weiner's talk on the history of Sino-Tibetan borderlands, focusing on "pluralistic promises" vs "revolutionary impatience" in Amdo: Friday 18th Jul at 15:00 CET (9am EST, 2pm UK, 630 IST). www.remote-xuar.com/events/makin...
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End of the year, new app, seems like a good time to share something I did for Shepherd back in summer. Particularly happy that three of the books are by Tibetan authors writing in Tibet/China.
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shepherd.com/best-books/u...
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shepherd.com/best-books/u...
The best books to understand the plight of Tibetans in contemporary China
Benno Weiner shares the 5 best books on understanding Tibetan plights in contemporary China. Have you read My Tibetan Childhood?
shepherd.com
December 21, 2024 at 3:01 PM
End of the year, new app, seems like a good time to share something I did for Shepherd back in summer. Particularly happy that three of the books are by Tibetan authors writing in Tibet/China.
@woeser.bsky.social @robbiebarnett.bsky.social
shepherd.com/best-books/u...
@woeser.bsky.social @robbiebarnett.bsky.social
shepherd.com/best-books/u...
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As traffic to our site from Chinese readers grows, we continue to make available Mandarin translations where possible:
强力外交：中国在不丹的跨境村庄 摘要 turquoiseroof.org/download/%e5...
(Summary of @robbiebarnett.bsky.social's report: Forceful #Diplomacy: China’s Cross-Border Villages in #Bhutan) #不丹
强力外交：中国在不丹的跨境村庄 摘要 turquoiseroof.org/download/%e5...
(Summary of @robbiebarnett.bsky.social's report: Forceful #Diplomacy: China’s Cross-Border Villages in #Bhutan) #不丹
强力外交：中国在不丹的跨境村庄 摘要
2016年，中国开始在通常被认为属于不丹的领土上建造一个村庄。五年后，这个村庄的存在 才被外界观察者发现，或被外国政府注意到。 当时，中国已经在不丹的传统习惯边界内建立了另外两个村庄。这些也位于喜马拉雅山高地或 喜马拉雅峡谷的偏远地区。目前已有22个这样的村庄和定居点。从卫星图像来看，这些中国 村庄和聚居区由约 752 个住宅区组成，估计分为 2,284 个住宅单元，每个单元可容纳一个家 庭。为了...
turquoiseroof.org
December 20, 2024 at 4:23 PM
As traffic to our site from Chinese readers grows, we continue to make available Mandarin translations where possible:
强力外交：中国在不丹的跨境村庄 摘要 turquoiseroof.org/download/%e5...
(Summary of @robbiebarnett.bsky.social's report: Forceful #Diplomacy: China’s Cross-Border Villages in #Bhutan) #不丹
强力外交：中国在不丹的跨境村庄 摘要 turquoiseroof.org/download/%e5...
(Summary of @robbiebarnett.bsky.social's report: Forceful #Diplomacy: China’s Cross-Border Villages in #Bhutan) #不丹
3 Maps showing China's new villages in Bhutan.
Map 1: principal areas of Bhutan currently claimed by China. Most of the claimed areas in the west (parts of Bji gewog) & in the northeast (the Beyul and Menchuma) have now been annexed by China. Map: Foreign Policy/Robert Barnett.
Map 1: principal areas of Bhutan currently claimed by China. Most of the claimed areas in the west (parts of Bji gewog) & in the northeast (the Beyul and Menchuma) have now been annexed by China. Map: Foreign Policy/Robert Barnett.
December 19, 2024 at 7:48 PM
3 Maps showing China's new villages in Bhutan.
Map 1: principal areas of Bhutan currently claimed by China. Most of the claimed areas in the west (parts of Bji gewog) & in the northeast (the Beyul and Menchuma) have now been annexed by China. Map: Foreign Policy/Robert Barnett.
Map 1: principal areas of Bhutan currently claimed by China. Most of the claimed areas in the west (parts of Bji gewog) & in the northeast (the Beyul and Menchuma) have now been annexed by China. Map: Foreign Policy/Robert Barnett.
3 Maps showing China's new villages in Bhutan.
Map 1: principal areas of Bhutan currently claimed by China. Most of the claimed areas in the west (parts of Bji gewog) & in the northeast (the Beyul and Menchuma) have now been annexed by China. Map: Foreign Policy/Robert Barnett.
Map 1: principal areas of Bhutan currently claimed by China. Most of the claimed areas in the west (parts of Bji gewog) & in the northeast (the Beyul and Menchuma) have now been annexed by China. Map: Foreign Policy/Robert Barnett.
December 19, 2024 at 7:31 PM
3 Maps showing China's new villages in Bhutan.
Map 1: principal areas of Bhutan currently claimed by China. Most of the claimed areas in the west (parts of Bji gewog) & in the northeast (the Beyul and Menchuma) have now been annexed by China. Map: Foreign Policy/Robert Barnett.
Map 1: principal areas of Bhutan currently claimed by China. Most of the claimed areas in the west (parts of Bji gewog) & in the northeast (the Beyul and Menchuma) have now been annexed by China. Map: Foreign Policy/Robert Barnett.
China is close to achieving its objectives on its border with Bhutan. Its strategy can be called 'Friendly Annexation' - friendship-based diplomacy at the same time as annexing territory within its neighbour's customary borders. It seems to be working: blogs.soas.ac.uk/china-instit.... /1
The Bhutan Anomaly - SOAS China Institute
Research by Robert Barnett and others has found that China has been annexing Bhutanese territory in recent years.
blogs.soas.ac.uk
December 19, 2024 at 7:18 PM
China is close to achieving its objectives on its border with Bhutan. Its strategy can be called 'Friendly Annexation' - friendship-based diplomacy at the same time as annexing territory within its neighbour's customary borders. It seems to be working: blogs.soas.ac.uk/china-instit.... /1
Seminar at SOAS, Thurs Nov 21, 5pm on
"Text-mining Propaganda: Studying Tibetan Newspapers, 1950s to early 1960s".
Speakers: Franz Xaver Erhard (Leipzig University) & Robert Barnett (SOAS). Moderator: Marcus Gilroy-Ware @mjgw.bsky.social (Creative Digital Media, SOAS).
Details: soas.ac.uk/about…
"Text-mining Propaganda: Studying Tibetan Newspapers, 1950s to early 1960s".
Speakers: Franz Xaver Erhard (Leipzig University) & Robert Barnett (SOAS). Moderator: Marcus Gilroy-Ware @mjgw.bsky.social (Creative Digital Media, SOAS).
Details: soas.ac.uk/about…
November 19, 2024 at 11:08 AM
Seminar at SOAS, Thurs Nov 21, 5pm on
"Text-mining Propaganda: Studying Tibetan Newspapers, 1950s to early 1960s".
Speakers: Franz Xaver Erhard (Leipzig University) & Robert Barnett (SOAS). Moderator: Marcus Gilroy-Ware @mjgw.bsky.social (Creative Digital Media, SOAS).
Details: soas.ac.uk/about…
"Text-mining Propaganda: Studying Tibetan Newspapers, 1950s to early 1960s".
Speakers: Franz Xaver Erhard (Leipzig University) & Robert Barnett (SOAS). Moderator: Marcus Gilroy-Ware @mjgw.bsky.social (Creative Digital Media, SOAS).
Details: soas.ac.uk/about…
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In this new essay, James Leibold examines the expansion of the Tibet-Aid Project in Xi Jinping’s ‘New Era’ of Han-centric nationalism and explores how the project facilitates Han settler colonialism in the Tibetan Autonomous Region.
The Tibet-Aid Project and Settler Colonialism in China’s Borderlands
This year marks 30 years since China launched its ambitious Tibet-Aid Project (援藏计划), a vast and ongoing party-state effort to reshape the region. Unveiled at the 1994 Tibet Work Forum, the scheme pai...
madeinchinajournal.com
November 12, 2024 at 2:58 PM
In this new essay, James Leibold examines the expansion of the Tibet-Aid Project in Xi Jinping’s ‘New Era’ of Han-centric nationalism and explores how the project facilitates Han settler colonialism in the Tibetan Autonomous Region.
Reposted by Robert Barnett
Forceful Diplomacy: China’s Cross-Border Villages in Bhutan
In 2016, China began constructing a village in territory generally understood to be part of Bhutan. It was five years before the existence of that village was discovered by outside observers or noticed by foreign governments.
In 2016, China began constructing a village in territory generally understood to be part of Bhutan. It was five years before the existence of that village was discovered by outside observers or noticed by foreign governments.
Forceful Diplomacy: China’s Cross-Border Villages in Bhutan
In 2016, China began constructing a village in territory generally understood to be part of Bhutan. It was five years before the existence of that village was discovered by outside observers or notice...
turquoiseroof.org
October 17, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Forceful Diplomacy: China’s Cross-Border Villages in Bhutan
In 2016, China began constructing a village in territory generally understood to be part of Bhutan. It was five years before the existence of that village was discovered by outside observers or noticed by foreign governments.
In 2016, China began constructing a village in territory generally understood to be part of Bhutan. It was five years before the existence of that village was discovered by outside observers or noticed by foreign governments.