General Web Resources for China-Tibet Studies
General info and databases
YouTube video playlists for Anth364: Global Tibet Tibet on Flickr (Thousands of recent photos by tourists, journalists, artists, activists, etc)Tibetan Studies WWW Virtual Library (collection of links and information, curated by an Australian academic)Tibet Online (List of major Tibet sites and online resources, works with the Tibetan gov't in exile. Note: website is currently being rebuilt)Columbia Online Research Guide for Modern Tibetan Studies (bibliographies and other resources from Columbia University)Center for Research on Tibet (projects and references from the anthropology dept. at Case Western)
China Media Project (examining Chinese journalism, from the University of Hong Kong)Tibetan and Himalayan Library (research and web hosting on regional culture and issues, supported by the University of Virginia)Latse Contemporary Tibetan Cultural Library (literature and image databases, from the Trace Foundation )Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (image and text database)Imaginechina (database of news photo agency, headquartered in Shanghai)The Tibet Album: British photography in Central Tibet 1920-1950 (curated by the University of Oxford and the British Museum)The Treasury of Lives (The Treasury of Lives is a biographical encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalayan region. Curated by a team of Buddhist Studies scholars in the U.S.)
Global Times (English language mouthpiece of Chinese state)Sixth Tone (Shanghai-based news site)SupChina (Tech-heavy Chinese daily)China Media Project (Affiliated with the University of Hong Kong)Women and Gender in China (Blog focusing on gender, sexuality, and feminism in China)TibetTV (official channel for Central Tibetan Administration, exiled govt in India)
Tibet Post International (An independent Tibetan newspaper operating out of India)China Central Television (Chinese state-run television)Phayul (News service from Tibetan exiles in India)China News Digest (Fairly neutral online newsletter managed by overseas Chinese volunteers in Maryland, English translation available for 2003 and earlier)China Newswire & News Monitoring Service (Overseas Chinese magazine, produced outside of PRC control, has links to non-PRC news regarding China)Radio Free Asia (past US propaganda apparatus, currently an independent corporation - includes Tibetan language service)Tibetans "Talk to Voice of America" (daily Tibetan-language radio news & commentary broadcasts from US media outlet, extensive online audio archive)People's Daily Online (news from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China)
China Tibet Information Center (news service based in Beijing)China News (Chinese state site)China Education and News Network (Chinese site, in English)China Today (Chinese state-sponsored magazine)China Economic Net (Political and market news, based in Beijing with ties to PRC government)China Digital Times (sponsored by the U.C. Berkeley China Internet Project)SINA (sponsored by tech corporations and PRC press agency)Tibetan Review (independent magazine out of New Delhi)eChinacities (News by locality)National Public Radio (U.S. non-profit radio news)
The Guardian - Tibet (British newspaper online news)
NGOs and activist organizations
International Tibet Support Network (international coalition of pro-Tibet NGOs, based in London)
Students for a Free Tibet (international network of pro-Tibet student groups, originally based in New York City)
Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (Tibetan human rights organization established in India)Canada Tibet Committee (Tibetan-Canadian activist NGO)
Chinese Students and Scholars Associations (generally pro-China, Google search lists US and international groups based at universities)
Tibetan Youth Congress (Tibetan nationalist group, founded in 1970 under the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala)Tibetan Women's Association (international network of chapters, based in Dharamsala)
Tibet Society (group supporting the Tibetan nationalist movement, out of the UK)International Campaign for Tibet (activist and lobbyist group, based in Washington D.C.)Human Rights China (Informational and news website under auspices of CND , based in Beijing. Has links on Tibet, ethnic groups in China, photos and more. Also in Chinese .)Jonang Foundation (supports preservation of Tibetan Buddhist culture, non-profit status in the US)Foundation for Universal Responsibility (Dalai Lama's interfaith world peace effort)TibetBridges (Tibet-specific web hosting)Gay Tibet (news and social networking for gay Tibetans, associated with Free Tibet movement)
Official government sites
Blogs
2008 Beijing Olympics
2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
Documentary and feature films
Tibet Film Archive (non-profit preservationist organization, based in NYC)Koknor Film Archive "Trouble in Exile " (Dateline documentary piece from 2006, 25mins)
"Milarepa " (legend of an 11th century Buddhist mystic, directed by a Tibetan lama)
"His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Conversation with Rajiv Mehrotra " (Broadcasted on Indian National Channel Doordarshan on 31st March 2009, via Phayul , 50 mins)
"Leaving Fear Behind " (2008 documentary with Tibetan testimony concerning the Olympics, 25 mins)
"Recollecting Tibet " (2008 documentary of Tibetans in exile)
"Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion " (Documentary on history and politics of Tibet, ~100 mins)
"Missing in Tibet " (documentary on Ngawang Choephel, Tibetan exile arrested by China, ~30 mins)
Meridian Trust (production house for documentaries of Tibetan Buddhists)Blindsight (feature documentary about blind Tibetans climbing Mt. Everest)"Voices in Exile " (2005 documentary on exiled Tibetans)
"Though I am Gone " (Trailer, Chinese documentary on the Cultural Revolution)
"Boomtown Beijing " (documentary on changes in Beijing around the 2008 Olympics)
"Give me back the natural scenery " (documentary on development in China)
Arts
Commercial Tibetan products