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Most recent articles

• Maps of the book Frontier Tibet (2019)

  10 March 2020, by stephane

  This page includes all the maps that have been published in the edited volume Frontier Tibet (2019)

• New edited volume: Frontier Tibet

  9 January 2020, by stephane

  Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands addresses a historical sequence that sealed the future of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands. It considers how starting in the late nineteenth century imperial formations and emerging nation-states developed competing schemes of integration and debated about where the border between China and Tibet should be.

• 19/12/2019 New edited volume: Frontier Tibet

  9 January 2020, by stephane

  Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands addresses a historical sequence that sealed the future of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands. It considers how starting in the late nineteenth century imperial formations and emerging nation-states developed competing schemes of integration and debated about where the border between China and Tibet should be.

• Edited volume: Frontier Tibet (AUP)

  9 January 2020, by stephane

  The third and final collective publication of the Kham project has been published in December 2019 with Amsterdam Universtiy Press, in open-access in their series "Asian Borderlands"

• 30/07/2016 New Publication

  26 August 2016, by stephane

  The special issue titled "Frontier Tibet: Trade and Boundaries of Authority in Kham" has been published with Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review (Berkeley). An open access publication!

• 17/05/2016 Final conference videos

  18 May 2016, by stephane

  The videos of the project’s final conference, held on February 18-20 in Paris are now online, for those interested who could not attend.

• 15/02/2016 Conference Program

  26 April 2016, by stephane

  International Conference Program

• Special Issue - Frontier Tibet: Trade and Boundaries of Authority in Kham

  21 January 2016, by stephane

  The second journal special issue, an outcome of this collaborative project, has been published. Titled "Frontier Tibet: Trade and Boundaries of Authority in Kham" it is an open access publication with Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review.

• Maps of Kham in Today’s administrative context

  18 January 2016, by stephane

  Administrative boundaries and capitals
  Population: density, evolution, ethnicity

• Maps of Western Travelers in Kham

  14 January 2016, by stephane

  Mapping old communication routes is of crucial importance to understand the history of Kham region prior to mid-20th century as today’s motor roads do not follow precisely traditional caravan and trade routes. In order to find out old routes we can rely on different kind of documents: Tibetan biographies and pilgrimage diaries of religious figures (place names, passes they used to cross, etc.); Chinese sources (for example Weizang tushi maps and accounts); Travel accounts and maps of (...)