A team of scientists from the UK and China have uncovered new evidence, using recently-discovered 25-million-year-old fossilised palm leaves, that Tibet's geography was not as 'high and dry' as ...

A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year (Asia and the Pacific) Winner, E. Gene Smith Book Prize on Inner Asia (China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies) The violent protests ...

A glass-floored cantilevering viewpoint features at Nujiang River 72 Turns Canyon Scenic Area, a project by Chinese studio Archermit that transforms a perilous landscape in Tibet into a visitor ...

The Sacred Landscape of West Sikkim (Sbas yul bras mo ljongs): Formation, Transmission and Conservation; the Mandala Issue The Sacred Landscape of West Sikkim (Sbas yul bras mo ljongs): Formation, ...

Millions of people depend on water from the glaciers of High-Mountain Asia. South-eastern Tibet, however, has some of the most rapidly melting glaciers in Asia. This is due to less summer snowfall, as ...

At sunrise and sunset, the air is cool, the scent of burning juniper incense is strong, and a river of pilgrims flows in a sacred circle around Jokhang Temple. Every day, they walk the perimeter of ...

A team of scientists from the UK and China have uncovered new evidence, using recently-discovered 25-million-year-old fossilised palm leaves, that Tibet's geography was not as 'high and dry' as ...

China’s attempt to consolidate its control over Tibet through modernization has gone tragically awry. After pouring money into programs for a “new socialist countryside,” “civilized cities,” and ...