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BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS

This is by no means a complete list, but it's a start. Books are listed alphabetically by title. Suggestions and additions are welcome and may be addressed to the maintainer of this site.



  • The Anguish of Tibet
    edited by Petra K. Kelly, Gert Bastian, & Pat Aiello, (Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 1991)

  • Cavaliers of Kham, Secret War in Tibet
    by Michel Peissel (NY: Little, Brown and Co., 1972)

  • Circles of Protest: Political Ritual in the Tibetan Uprising
    by Ronald D. Schwartz (NY: Columbia University Press, 1994)

  • Defying the Dragon: China and Human Rights in Tibet
    (London: Tibet Information Network/LAWASIA, 1991)

  • Evading Scrutiny: Violatons of Human Rights After the Closing of Tibet
    (Washington, DC: Asia Watch, July 1988)

  • Forbidden Freedoms: Beijing's Control of Religion in Tibet
    (Washington, DC: International Campaign for Tibet, 1990)

  • Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama
    by Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama (NY: HarperCollins, 1990)

  • Freedom of Religion in China
    Asia Watch (NY: Human Rights Watch, 1992) See also the Independent Reports section.

  • In Exile From the Land of the Snows
    by John F. Avedon (NY: Vintage Books, 1986)

  • Legal Materials on Tibet
    International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet. Reference containing 77 reports and documents from the UN, NGOs, China, the US, and the European Parliament. $23 postpaid from the ICLT.

  • Life in the Red Flag People's Commune
    by Dhjondub Choedon (Dharamsala, India: Information Office of H.H. the Dalai Lama, 1978)

  • The Long March: Chinese Settlers and Chinese Policies in Eastern Tibet
    (Washington, DC: International Campaign for Tibet, 1991)

  • Merciless Repression: Human Rights Abuses in Tibet
    Asia Watch (NY: Human Rights Watch, 1990)

  • People's Republic of China: Repression in Tibet 1987-1992
    (London: Amnesty International, 1992)

  • Political Prisoners in Tibet
    Asia Watch and Tibet Information Network (NY: Human Rights Watch, 1992)

  • Population Transfer and the Survival of the Tibetan Identity
    by Michael C. van Walt van Praag (NY: The US Tibet Committee, 1986)

  • "Reform and Repression in Tibet", article by Ronald D. Schwartz (Telos  magazine; August, 1989)

  • The Suppression of a People: Accounts of Torture and Imprisonment in Tibet
    by John Ackerly and Blake Kerr (Boston: Physicians for Human Rights, 1989)

  • Tibet: Survival in Question
    by Pierre-Antoine Donnet (London: Zed Books, 1994)

  • Tibet Today: Current Conditions and Prospects
    by Richard Avedon (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1987)

  • Tibet Under Chinese Communist Rule, A Compilation of Refugee Statements
    (Dharamsala, India: Information Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, 1958-1975, 1976)

  • Tibetan Refugees: Youth and the New Generation of Meaning
    by Margaret Nowak (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1984)

  • Tibetans in Exile
    (Dharamsala, India: Information Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, 1981)

  • Warriors of Tibet: The Story of Aten and the Khampa's Fight for Freedom
    Jamiyang Norbu (Boston: Wisdom Books, 1986)


Copyright 1997 Spencer Sundell

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