Citations:Tibet Autonomous Region

English citations of Tibet Autonomous Region

• 1957, Alan Winnington, Tibet: Record of a Journey‎^[1], London: Lawrence & Wishart, →OCLC, pages 57–58:

  Now Sikang Province has been liquidated, the eastern part being merged with Szechuan Province and the western part, the Chamdo (Kham) District, will incorporate itself in the Tibet Autonomous Region when it is established. Developments there will probably provide the Tibet Autonomous Region with useful experience for that future period.

• 1957 December 28, “Scapegoats for Tibet”, in The Economist‎^[2], volume CLXXXV, number 5966, page 1137:

  No one is presumably surprised that the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama, as chairman and first vice-chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region, have failed to labour diligently and effectively to ensure the success of the precipitate Communist drive.

• 1966, Ruth Adams, editor, Contemporary China‎^[3], Vintage Books, page 242:

  A good example of the flagrant and unsophisticated use and abuse of population figures was provided by a series of recently published figures for Tibet. The report stated that between 1960 and 1965 the population of Tibet Autonomous Region increased at a rate of 2 per cent each year and great from 1,197,000 to 1,321,500. Is this reasonable? Not entirely.

• 1967, Giuseppe Tucci, Tibet: Land of Snows‎^[4], Stein and Day, page 58:

  The post of chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region was taken over by a Tibetan Nyabö Nawang Jigmé who had, from the beginning of the occupation, co-operated with the Chinese.

• 1977, Han Suyin, Lhasa, the Open City‎^[5], New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10:

  I stay at the official guesthouse where, in September 1975, the delegation from the Central Government, headed by Mr Hua Kuo-feng, China's recent Prime Minister, came to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China (first proclaimed in September 1965).

• 1982, Zhang Mingtao, The Roof of the World‎^[6], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, page [7]:

  In the course of the program, the Academy sent more than 400 researchers to the Tibet Autonomous Region.

• 1988, Jim Goodman, Kathmandu‎^[8], Hunter Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 96:

  The Kingdom of Nepal is a landlocked, rectangular-shaped, mountainous country of 145,391 square kilometers (56,139 square miles) on the northern end of the South Asian subcontinent. It is located between latitudes 26 degrees and 30 degrees north and longitudes 80 degrees and 88 degrees east; it is bordered by the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China on the north and India on the east, west and south.

• 1995, Rong Ma, edited by Calvin Goldscheider, Economic Patterns, Migration, and Ethnic Relationships in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China (Population, Ethnicity, and Nation-Building)‎^[9], Westview Press, →ISBN, page 40:

  The Tibet Autonomous Region covers of 1.23 million square kilometers and is located on a high plateau averaging 3,600 meters above sea level in southwestern China. According to the national census, the total population in the TAR was 2.2 million in 1990 (CPIRC, 1991). It has a strong religious tradition (Tibetan Buddhism), and its special religion-related culture has lasted for centuries.

• 2002, Ma Jian, translated by Flora Drew, Red Dust‎^[10], →ISBN, pages 293, 303:

  In the evening I return to Mo Yuan's room in the grounds of the Tibet Autonomous Region Radio Station.
  . . .
  I get up and take out the introduction letter Liu Ren forged for me that says I am a guest reporter for Tibet Autonomous Region Radio.

• 2014, Michael Buckley, Meltdown in Tibet‎^[11], Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 117:

  According to official figures cited by People's Online Daily, in 1990 nature reserves accounted for 4 percent of the land area of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

• 2020, “Why there are two Panchen Lamas, and one is missing”, in The Diplomat‎^[12]:

  Exiled activists see the anniversary as a chance to remind the world of China’s brutality in Tibet and the hollowness of its promises of “autonomy” there. But in Tibet itself, the day will pass without notice. The region has emerged from its covid-19 lockdown into the political lockdown that passes for normal life there. The official media are indulging in a propaganda blitz around a new law, passed by the regional assembly in January, that came into effect on May 1st: “Regulations on the Establishment of a Model Area for Ethnic Unity and Progress in the Tibet Autonomous Region”.

• 2020, “Tibet kicks off its first large-scale aerial afforestation”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[13]:

  Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region launched its first large-scale aerial afforestation on Tuesday, said local authorities.

• 2022 March 10, Sangyal Kunchok, Lobe Socktsang, “Security tight in Tibet’s Lhasa on anniversary of uprising”, in Radio Free Asia‎^[14], archived from the original on 11 March 2022:

  The source said that as early as last month, authorities had been hiring unemployed Tibetans in settlements on the outskirts of Lhasa to enter the city to “monitor the situation” for any signs of unrest, particularly in areas around the revered Sera, Drepung, and Ganden monasteries.
  “Chinese authorities started hiring local Tibetans from [area] villages in February. From one of the villages alone, around 30 unemployed Tibetans were hired, and most were sent to Lhasa and Shigatse,” he said, referring to another prefecture-level city in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR).