Elliot Sperling examines the way Tibetan history has been described and interpreted in China since 1950. He especially focusses on the Chinese assertion that Tibet became part of China in the thirteenth century under the Yuan Dynasty, and concludes that this interpretation is a construction of the twentieth century. By Elliot Sperling more»

People's Republic of China: Background Paper on the Situation of the Tibetan Population

- February 10, 2009 - This document was commissioned for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refuges. A detailed, thoroughly researched presentation of economic, political, religious and social conditions in Tibet. A Writenet report by Prof. Colin P. Mackerras more»