CULLED FROM THE CULLERS: SINO-TIBETAN RELATIONS FOR THE REST OF US
Maybe you happen not to be a Tibetologist or scholar of Chinese and Tibetan history, but maybe you still want a sane overview of this complex problem? Maybe, when it comes to the situation in Tibet, you want something less than pure, outright, face-clawing advocacy, but more than a cable news network talking head? These kinds of reports--intelligent, but not arcane--are starting to surface now, and so I thought I'd list a few.
- http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/13/opinion/edsperling.php-- This is Elliot Sperling's piece for The New York Times, although I've given you the International Herald Tribune's link where it was also printed. Sperling is an authoritative commentator on all things Tibetan and the Director of the Tibetan Studies Program at Indiana University.
- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89552004-- An NPR interview with Robert Barnett, Director of Tibetan Studies at Columbia. This will give you a very good sense of Tibet's claims for freedom in the 20th century.
- Google "The Tibet-China Conflict: History and Polemics by Elliot Sperling"--This is a forty-page PDF book, with a substantial bibliography, available online for no charge. This is for the more ambitious, but a good place to begin to indulge those ambitions.
- http://cc.purdue.edu/~wtv/tibet/article/art4.html-- This one is also long, and a bit old (1995), but it's by Melvyn Goldstein, a noted Tibetologist at Case Western University.
