In digesting Tibet's different regions, it's important to know a few things. First, there's a distinction between Tibet and the Tibet Autonomous Region (also referred to as the TAR). Tibet is ...

What remained unclear was the route Ekai Kawaguchi (1866-1945) took to enter Tibet, tucked deep in the mountains and closed to foreigners, at a time when no decent map was available. Now ...

The term "Xizang" has been a tool of cultural erasure since China’s annexation of Tibet in the 1950s. International institutions increasingly face pressure to adopt Beijing’s terminology, with global ...