Projet Kham - site public

  • Description
    • Project Description
    • Contact
  • Aims and Themes
    • Theme 1 - Trade and commerce
      • Tea porters (beifu)
      • Trade routes
    • Theme 2 - Ethnicity, religion, and local identities
      • Ethnic categorization
      • Gyalrong local history
    • Theme 3 - Political entities and social organization
    • Theme 4 - Representations and cultural politics
  • Participants
    • Gros Stéphane
    • Atwill David
    • Booz Patrick
    • Buffetrille Katia
    • Chaix Rémi
    • Chen Bo
    • Da Col Giovanni
    • Jacques Guillaume
    • Jagou Fabienne
    • Jinba Tenzin
    • Maconi Lara
    • Namgyal Lama Kunsang
    • Yudru Tsomu
  • Activities
    • Conferences and Workshops
      • Project workshops
      • International Association of Tibetan Studies conference (2013)
      • International Conference (2016)
    • Cartography
      • Maps of Kham in Today’s administrative context
      • Maps of Western Travelers in Kham
      • Maps of the book Frontier Tibet (2019)
    • Fieldwork
  • Publications
    • Edited volume: Frontier Tibet (AUP)
    • Special Issue - Frontier Tibet: Trade and Boundaries of Authority in Kham
    • Special Issue of the bilingual journal Cahiers d’Extrême Asie (EFEO)
  • Ressources
    • Blog : The Himalayas and beyond
    • Links

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 (...)

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