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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · Sep 5

Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of the banned Tibetan novel, now in English, "The Red Wind Howls": chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · Sep 4

Please check out my review of Tsering Döndrup’s magnificent and important novel, *The Red Wind Howls* (tr. Chris Peacock) in @chinabooksreview.com
(then read the book!)

Thanks to editors @alexludoboyd.bsky.social and @alecash.net

chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
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Ill Winds In Tibet | China Books Review

A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao's campaigns in the wake of the Amdo Rebellion of 1958.

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · Sep 4

Please check out my review of Tsering Döndrup’s magnificent and important novel, *The Red Wind Howls* (tr. Chris Peacock) in @chinabooksreview.com
(then read the book!)

Thanks to editors @alexludoboyd.bsky.social and @alecash.net

China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · Sep 4

A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao’s campaigns in the wake of the 1958 Amdo Rebellion.

Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of "The Red Wind Howls" by Tsering Döndrup: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...

chinabooksreview.com

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · Sep 1

Also of Inner Asian note:
-Huatse Gyal on Shannon Ward's Amdo Lullaby
-Giulia Cabras on @geraldroche.bsky.social Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet
[email protected] on Matthew Kapstein's 2 vol. Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Tibetan Books

read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...

Advance Publication | Journal of Asian Studies | Duke University Press

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · Sep 1

Happy to see the advanced publication of my review of Yudru Tsomo's history of 20th C Kham, *Chieftains, Lamas, and Warriors* is now available from The Journal of Asian Studies. tinyurl.com/2wckc72w

Chieftains, Lamas, and Warriors: A History of Kham, 1905–1961

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · Sep 1

CFP: Joint Conference of the Historical Society for 20th Century China and the Institute for Modern History, Academia Scinica
Deadline: October 15

Please note that papers/panels can engage any aspect of China and/or Taiwan's long 20th Crntury
All the info: hstcconline.org/announcements/

Announcements

Call for Papers International Conference Jointly Organized by the Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China and the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica Taiwan Reframing Modern Histori…

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · Aug 12

Happy to be recognized as a finalist for the @washingtonmonthly.com's Kukula Ward for my review of @ewong.bsky.social's At the Edge of Empire. Sincere thanks @jwassers.bsky.social, @bspivey.bsky.social, and @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
Read the Review 👇
lareviewofbooks.org/article/stra...

Straining Nation or Expansionist Empire? | Los Angeles Review of Books

Benno Weiner reviews Edward Wong’s “At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China.”

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Jul 23

"The personal cost Tsering Döndrup has paid for ‘The Red Wind Howls’ is further evidence, if it were needed, of just how taboo his tale is."

Christopher Peacock on Tsering Döndrup’s defiant reckoning with Tibet’s legacy of violence:

Tsering Döndrup’s defiant reckoning with Tibet’s legacy of violence

I FIRST MET Tsering Döndrup at his home in Xining – the largest city on the Tibetan Plateau, located in Qinghai province in western China. This was in early 201

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · Jul 23

Job Announcement: History/Anthropology of Science, Technology and Medicine.

The Department of History at Carnegie Mellon seeks to hire up to two scholars at the rank of assistant and/or associate professor.

Please share and note Sep 15 deadline! Happy to answer Qs
apply.interfolio.com/170040

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Joseph Torigian @josephtorigian.bsky.social · Jul 5

Thanks @robbiebarnett.bsky.social for referring to work by @bennoweiner.bsky.social and me for this ChinaFile discussion on the Dalai Lama’s succession www.chinafile.com/conversation...

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Amdo Research Network @amdoresnet.bsky.social · Jun 25

Thank you to all the participants of the 5th International Amdo Research Network workshop at the University of Leeds. Looking forward to continuing our conversations at IATS next summer in Kathmandu!

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Amdo Research Network @amdoresnet.bsky.social · May 28

REMINDER: join us Tomorrow May 29 @4pm for the first ARN New Books on Amdo talk w/ authors Shannon Ward, Tim Thurston and moderator Huatse Gyal! Details 👇

Amdo Research Network @amdoresnet.bsky.social · May 12

ARN is happy to announce the inaugural *New Books on Amdo* talk.

Join moderator Huatse Gyal as he discusses language politics in Amdo with Shannon Ward and Tim Thurston, authors of Amdo Lullaby and Satirical Tibet.

Zoom: 4:00 PM (EST), May 29, register at: riceuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · May 13

Excited to have received an advanced copy of Tsering Döndrup’s remarkable novel, The Red Wind Howls, which recounts the Maoist period in the Amdo grasslands.

Truly a must read, thanks to Chris Peacock for the English trans. of this essential story. Highly recommended
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Amdo Research Network @amdoresnet.bsky.social · May 12

ARN is happy to announce the inaugural *New Books on Amdo* talk.

Join moderator Huatse Gyal as he discusses language politics in Amdo with Shannon Ward and Tim Thurston, authors of Amdo Lullaby and Satirical Tibet.

Zoom: 4:00 PM (EST), May 29, register at: riceuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · May 1

Appearing on the Sinica podcast was a bucket list sort of thing. Thanks to @kaiserkuo.bsky.social for having me on to talk about ethnopolitics in China. There's more I wish I had said, and some things I wish I had said differently, but give it a listen!

www.sinicapodcast.com/p/live-at-pi...

Live at Pitt: CMU's Benno Weiner on the Evolution of China's Minzu Policy

This week on Sinica, in a show recorded at the University of Pittsburgh, I speak with Benno Weiner, Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, about how China's policy toward its mi...

www.sinicapodcast.com

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https://stephenjones.blog/ @stevejonesblog.bsky.social · Apr 14

NEW: Timothy Thurston’s book Satirical Tibet, another contribution to the thriving field of Amdo studies
stephenjones.blog/2025/04/13/s...

Satirical Tibet

*Furthering my education in the travails of modern Tibet* Within the Tibetan cultural world, research on the Amdo region (see e.g. here) has become a remarkably dynamic field of scholarship. A fine…

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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · Mar 22

It is difficult to stress how much an administrative (and in this case one that is clearly meant to fall in line with a rightwing fascist government) takeover of any department, let alone area studies, structurally threatens the core of academic freedom

Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · Mar 21

"Columbia agreed to ban masks, empower 36 campus police officers with new powers to arrest students and appoint a senior vice provost with broad authority to oversee the department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies as well as the Center for Palestine Studies."

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Mar 21

This is just the worst week. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · Mar 11

Thrilled to be welcoming Professor Norkiko Unno (Osaka University) to Pittsburgh tomorrow, Wednesday March 12, for this fabulous looking talk. Thanks to the Asian Studies Center at UPitt for hosting. Details below.

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Andrew Quintman @andrewquintman.bsky.social · Mar 3

And Ben's new book has just been announced:

The Power of Publishing in Early Modern Tibetan Buddhism

The press is offering 30% off rn with the code LXFANDF30

rowman.com/ISBN/9781666...

The Power of Publishing in Early Modern Tibetan Buddhism

This book explores the historical and religious dynamics that led to the “golden age” of Tibetan printing in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It also examines the Mahāyāna Buddhist i...

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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · Feb 24

China’s push for Mandarin as a 'neutral' language clashes with Tibetan efforts to preserve their linguistic heritage. As pressures mount, the fight for language becomes a fight for identity, power, and cultural survival, writes Dak Lhagyal.

Navigating Linguistic Hierarchies in Tibet

China’s complex linguistic landscape reveals deep tensions between the state’s push for the use of Mandarin and the preservation of minority languages like Tibetan. As Mandarin is promoted as a neutra...

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Kate Hartmann @kateahart.bsky.social · Feb 19

My book — Making the Invisible Real: Practices of Seeing in Tibetan Pilgrimage — now has a cover and is coming out April 25!

Link: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Book cover for Making the Invisible Real: Practices of Seeing in Tibetan Pilgrimage. Image is from Nicholas Roerich, “Milarepa, the One who Harkened,” and depicts stark blue mountains against a pale yellow sky

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Amdo Research Network @amdoresnet.bsky.social · Feb 6

Reminder: February 10 is the deadline for submitting paper proposal for the 5th Amdo Research Network conference, to be held at University of Leeds, June 23-25. Details 👇

Amdo Research Network @amdoresnet.bsky.social · Nov 22

ARN is pleased to announce the third volume of the series *Mapping Amdo*: "Dynamics of Relations and Interactions"- Open Access!
w/ chapters on demographics, linguistics, reading practices, urbanization & resettlement, and history. tinyurl.com/5n7hjdpr

Mapping Amdo: Language Diversity in Amdo. Changes and Challenges - Amdo Research Network

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High Peaks Pure Earth @hpeaks.bsky.social · Jan 25

She complained that life in Hangzhou was stressful and competitive. “But today I am Drolma,” she said, “a #Tibetan girl who is free and joyful and lives without care.”

@jbher.bsky.social @foreignpolicy.com

foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/24/c...

How Tourism Trapped Tibet

The region is becoming a theme park for the Chinese nation.

foreignpolicy.com

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · Jan 14

New Book 🚨!!

The Politics of Sorrow, by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, uncovers the story of Amdo and Khampa chieftains and lamas who sought to protect local identities and traditions in exile rather than “embrace demands to shed regional allegiance and embrace national unity” @columbiaup.bsky.social

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Andrew Quintman @andrewquintman.bsky.social · Jan 9

It may not be #ManuscriptMonday, but almost! This is an extraordinary 2-vol publication:

Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Printed Books. Ed. by Matthew T. Kapstein. Cornell University Press. 2 vols. 368 pp., 491 color illustrations.

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Covers of the 2 volumes of Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Printed Books. Edited by Matthew T. Kapstein. Cornell University Press. 2024.

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