Robbie Barnett - Tibetan Buddhism in the West



Robert Barnett: Curriculum Vitae

Weatherhead East Asian Institute School of International and Public Affairs #939

Columbia University

420 West 118th Street #939 New York NY 10027

Phone: 212-854-1725 Fax: 212-749-1497 email: rjb58@columbia.edu

Publications

a) Books

Tibetan Modernities: Notes from the Field on Social and Cultural Change. Edited volume. With Ronald Schwartz. Brill, Leiden, 2008.

Lhasa: Streets with Memories. Columbia University Press, 2006.

White Crane - A Concise Commentary Clarifying “The Wishing Tree” of Tibetan Grammar. Editor. With Lhakpa Tseten (main author). University of Tibet Research Monograph, Tibet Nationalities Publishing House, 2002.

The Illegible City: Stories Told by the Streets of Lhasa (La città illeggibile: Storie narrate dalle strade di Lhasai). Published in Italian. CDA, Milan, 1999.

A Poisoned Arrow: The Secret Petition of the 10th Panchen Lama. Editor. Tibet Information Network, London, 1998

Leaders in Tibet: A Directory. With Victoria Connor. Tibet Information Network (TIN), London, 1997.

Cutting Off the Serpent's Head: Tightening Control in Tibet, 1994-95. With Mickey Spiegel. TIN, London and Human Rights Watch, New York, 1996.

Resistance and Reform in Tibet. Editor. University of Indiana, Bloomington and Hursts, London, 1994. Essays on social change, art and history in Tibet since 1950.

Political Prisoners in Tibet. With Mickey Spiegel. Asiawatch, New York and TIN, London, 1992.

b) Book Chapters

“Introduction” to Naktsang Nulo, My Tibetan Childhood: When Ice Shattered Stone, Duke University Press, 2014.

“Introduction” to Tsering Woeser and Wang Lixiong, Voices from Tibet, Hong Kong University Press and and University of Hawai’i Press, 2014, pp. ix-xxxviii.

“Digital Video: Domestic videos, elite films and the work of Padma Tsedan”. In Angela Zito and Zhang Zhen (eds.), Digital Video in China, University of Hawai’i Press (forthcoming).

“Language practices and protracted conflict: the Tibet–China dispute”. In Jean-Pierre Cabestan and Aleksandar Pavković (eds), Secessionism and Separatism in Europe and Asia: To have a state of one’s own, London and New York: Routledge (2012), pp. 197-219.

“Notes on Contemporary Ransom Rituals in Lhasa”. In Katia Buffetrille (ed.), Ritual in the Contemporary Tibetan World, Paris: Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. Leiden: Brill (2012), pp. 273-374.

“Mimetic re-enchantment: The endorsement of Tibetan religious leaders in contemporary China”. In Nils Ole Bubandt and Martijn van Beek (eds), Varieties of Secularism, in Asia: Anthropological Explorations of Religion, Politics and the Spiritual. Routledge (September 2011). Chapter 2, pp. 29-54.

“Tibet: Secession Based on the Collapse of an Imperial Overlord.” In Aleksander Pavkovitch (ed.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Secession, Case Study 8, Ashgate, (2011), pp.487-9.

“Politics on China’s Periphery: Tibet”. In William A. Joseph (ed.), Politics in China: An Introduction, New York: Oxford University Press, Chapter 14 (2010), pp. 315-335.

“Television Drama Series in Tibet”. In Valeria Donati (ed.), Tibetan Cinema. Discovering A New Political And Cultural Language, ASIA Onlus, Naples (2009), pp. 51-70.

“Human Rights” and “The Lhasa Riots”. In Anne-Marie Blondeau and Katia Buffetrille (eds.), Authenticating Tibet. University of California Press (2008), pp. 81-112, 313-330.

“Authenticity, secrecy and public space: Chen Kuiyuan and representations of the Panchen Lama reincarnation dispute of 1995”. In Robert Barnett and Ronald Schwartz (eds), Tibetan Modernities: Notes from the Field on Cultural and Social Change. Papers presented at the Xth IATS Seminar, Oxford, 2003. Brill, Leiden (2008), pp. 353-422.

“Beyond the Collaborator-Martyr Model: Strategies of Compliance, Opportunism and Opposition within Tibet”. In Barry Sautman and June Dreyer (eds.): Contemporary Tibet, M.E. Sharpe, New York (2006), pp. 25-66.

“Mestizo”. In James O'Reilly and Larry Habbegger (eds.), The Best Travel Writing, Travellers' Tales, San Francisco, 2006.

“Women and Forms of Political Participation in Tibet”. In J. Gyatso and H. Havnevik (eds.), Women in Tibet, past and present, Hursts, London and Columbia University, New York (2006), pp. 285-366.

“Chen Kuiyuan and the Marketisation of Policy”. In Alex McKay (ed.), Tibet and Her Neighbours, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, London, 2003, pp. 207ff.

“A City, its Visitors, and the Odour of Development”. In F. Pommaret (ed.), Lhasa in the Seventeenth Century, Brill, Leiden, 2003.

“Mestizo”, In James O'Reilly and Larry Habbegger (eds.), Travellers' Tales from Tibet, Travellers' Tales, San Francisco, 2002.

“Les Droits de l’Homme” and “Sur les Émeutes de Lhassa”. In Anne-Marie Blondeau and Katia Buffetrille (eds.), Tibet, est-il chinois? Albin Michel, Paris 2002.

“‘Violated Specialness’: Western Political Representations of Tibet”. In Thierry Dodin and Heinz Raether (eds.), Imagining Tibet, Wisdom Publications, Boston 2001, pp. 269-316.

“Many Faces, Many Names”. Introduction to Carlo Meazza, Gente del Tibet, Edizioni C.M.,Varese, 2001, pp. 5-19. Published in translation in Italian.

"Lhasa, la ville illisible". In Buffetrille, K. & Ramble, C. (eds.), les Tibétains: 1959-1999, Editions Autrement, Paris 1998. Published in translation in French.

“Essay”. In Steve Lehman and Robert Barnett, The Tibetans: A Struggle to Survive, Umbrage/Twin Palms, USA, 1998; Virgin, London, 1999. (Essay giving overview of the Tibet “issue”)

“Preface”. In Robert Barnett (ed.), A Poisoned Arrow - the Secret Petition of the 10th Panchen Lama, TIN, London, 1998, pp. xi-xxiii.

“Introduction: Continuity and Contradiction in TAR Institutions”. In Victoria Conner and Robert Barnett, Leaders in Tibet - A Directory, TIN (Tibet Information Network), London, 1997.

“Towards an Analysis of the Tibetan Cadre Force”. In Victoria Conner and Robert Barnett, Leaders in Tibet - A Directory, TIN (Tibet Information Network), London, 1997, pp. 17-41.

"Préface". In Pierre Julien Quiers, Histoires Tibétaines, Paris: Editions Florent-Massot, 1997. Published in translation in French.

“Symbols and Protest: the Iconography of Demonstrations in Tibet, 1987-89”. In Robert Barnett (ed.), Resistance and Reform in Tibet: 40 Years On, Tibet 1950-90, Hursts, London, and University of Indiana, Bloomington, 1994, pp. 238-58

"Contrôle Sociale au Tibet". In Lydie Koch-Miramond (ed.), La Chine et les Droits de l'Homme, Harmattan, Paris 1991

“The Effectiveness of Parliamentary Initiatives on Tibet”. In P. Kelly and G. Bastian (eds.), The Anguish of Tibet, Parallax, Berkeley 1991.

c) Journal Articles

“Political Self-Immolation in Tibet: Causes and Influences,” Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines, Number 25, December 2012, pp. 41-64 (see ).

“Restrictions and Their Anomalies: The Third Forum and the Regulation of Religion in Tibet,” Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 4/2012: 1−63.

“Younghusband Redux: Chinese films and dramatizations of the British invasion of Tibet,” Inner Asia, Autumn 2012.

“The Babas are Dead: Street Talk and Contemporary Views of Leaders in Tibet” in Elliot Sperling (ed.), Proceedings of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, University of Indiana, Bloomington (forthcoming).

“China, Tibet and the Dynamics of Inland Borders”, China Heritage Quarterly, No. 27, September 2011 (see ).

“Understated Legacies: Uses of Oral History and Tibetan Studies”. Inner Asia, 12 (2010): 61–91.

“The Tibet Protests of Spring, 2008: Conflict between the Nation and the State”, China Perspectives (Guest Editor: Françoise Robin), Hong Kong (July 2009), 2009/3, pp. 6-23.

“Ethics in China’s wild west”. British Journalism Review, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2008, pp. 49-56.

“Language and Ethnicity: Cadre-Speak in Contemporary Tibet”. Inner Asia 10, 1 (2008), pp. 171-205.

“Cadres, Discourse and Late Socialism: Comparative Views of Idealism, Signs and Outcomes” (Conference Review), Inner Asia 7 (2005), No 2: 261-74.

“The Secret Secret: Cinema, Ethnicity and 17th Century Tibetan-Mongolian Relations”, in Inner Asia, Winter 2002 (Cambridge), pp. 277-346.

“Saving Tibet from "Satan's Grip": Present-Day Missionary Activity in Tibet”. Lungta 11, Amnye Machen Institute (Dharamsala), 1999, pp. 36ff.

“The Difficulty of Making God-Children Disappear: China and the Panchen Lama”. Lungta 10, Amnye Machen Institute (Dharamsala), 1996, pp. 32-35.

“China’s Secret History.” China Now (London), Winter 1995

d) Reviews

“Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change”, Lauran R. Hartley and Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani (eds.). Pacific Affairs, December 2010 (Volume 83, No. 4).

“Tibet and Nationalist China’s Frontier: Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928-49”, Hsiao-Ting Lin. China Quarterly, December 2009 issue (No. 200).

“History of Modern Tibet, Vol. 2: Calm before the Storm”, Melvyn C. Goldstein. China Perspectives (July 2009).

“Thunder from Tibet”. New York Review of Books, Volume 55, Number 9 (May 29, 2008), pp. 46-49.

“On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier”, Asian Studies, Vol. 65, No. 2, (May 2006), pp. 417-19.

e) Edited Journal Issues

Guest Editor with Hildegard Diemberger of Inner Asia 10, 1 (2008) on Cadres and Discourse in Late Socialism.

f) Web Articles and Opinion Pieces

Al Jazeera – “The Long Wait for Tibetan Freedom”, March 24 2014

The Atlantic – “China to Tibetans: Stay Put - A leading expert on Tibet discusses China's recent crackdown on passports for Tibetans”, Interview by Matt Schiavenza, January 31 2013

The Browser – “Robert Barnett on Tibet: FiveBooks ", Interview by Alec Ash, June 2012 interviews/robert-barnett-on-tibet

Asia Blog, Asia Society – “Interview: Robert Barnett on Why Tibetans Are Setting Themselves on Fire”, Interview by Alex Ortolani, February 24, 2012 blog/asia/interview-robert-barnett-why-tibetans-are-setting-themselves-fire

BBC, “Viewpoint: Are Tibet burnings plot or policy failure?” November 15, 2011

New York Review of Books - Blog, “China's 'Liberation' of Tibet: Rules of the Game”. August 22, 2011 (see )

The China Beat, “Obama, the Dalai Lama, and US-China Relations: The Current State of Affairs”. July 27, 2011.

The Revealer, “His Holiness the Dalai Lama Goes to Washington. Amy Levin talks to Robert Barnett about HHDL’s visit.” 15 July 2011.

Foreign Policy, “Government in Exile: The Dalai Lama prepares to hand-off Tibet's political leadership”, May 26th, 2011.

New York Review of Books - Blog, “The Dalai Lama’s ‘Deception’: Why a Seventeenth-Century Decree Matters to Beijing”, April 6th, 2011.

Foreign Policy, “Why Doesn't China Want To Let the Dalai Lama Resign?”, March 21st, 2011

New York Review of Books - Blog, “How to Greet the Dalai Lama”, March 5th, 2010. .

New York Times, “Where Westerners Slip Up”. Opinion section. November 18, 2009. .

Dongfang Zaobao, “Robert Barnett: ‘Obama’s postponement of meeting with the Dalai is a shift in its diplomatic stance on China’”. Shanghai, Nov 9th 2009. See PRC government site at .

Tibet Research Institute (internal publication), Chengdu, July 2009. “The Loss of Lives and Trust: Questions after Lhasa and Urumqi”,

Il Domenicale, “Low-Hanging Fruit: Tibet, Irrationality and Excuses”, May 2009.

“A way out of Tibet's morass for China,” New Straits Times, April 25, 2009. Also in Taipei Times, The Brunei Times,

Phnom Penh Post, The Korea Times, The New Straits Times, Daily Times, Les Echos (Mali), L'Echo (Belgium), The Guatemala Times, Examen (Mexico), Jordan Times, Al-Jazirah (Saudi Arabia).

“Distrust in Tibet”, Interview with Alex Pasternack, Far East Economic Review, March 12th, 2009. Revised Mar 18 2009.

“Can China’s Tibetan Crisis Be Resolved?” Interview with Council on Foreign Relations, March 6th, 2009.

“Three Views on Recent Tibetan Unrest”, Tibet Research Institute (internal publication), Chengdu, March 2009.

“Did Britain Just Sell Tibet?” New York Times, November 25th, 2008.

In Case You Missed It: Tibet Special, Part 4, China Beat, October 1st, 2008.

The Olympic Torch in Xinjiang and Tibet, Interview, New York Times Blog, June 17th, 2008.

“Columbia Professor Shares Insights on Troubled Tibet”, The Record, Columbia University, March 31st, 2010, at .

“Tragedy in Tibet”, Op-ed, Wall Street Journal, March 17th 2008.

Seven Questions: What Tibetans Want, Interview, Foreign Policy, March 2008.

Two Realities of Tibet, Blog op-ed, New York Times, March 21st, 2008.

“One China, Many Chinas”. China Security, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Spring 2008), pp. 15-6.

Chinese Policies in Tibet: A Critical Look. Article for PBS website on the documentary series “China From the Inside”.

g) Television and radio interviews

LinkNews ,“China Clamps Down After Tibetan Self-Immolations: Interview with Professor Barnett” February 29th, 2012

BBC World Service, “Viewpoint: Dalai Lama's exile challenge for Tibetans”, March 14th, 2012

NPR, “Chinese Security Forces Round Up Tibetan Protesters,” May 31, 2012



NPR, March 10th, 2011,

“Why Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama upset China: Listen to Robert Barnett”, The World Today, BBC World Service, February 19th, 2010, at .

“Obama Holds White House Meeting with Dalai Lama Over Chinese Protest”, Democracy Now, February 19th, 2010, at .

“Dalai Lama meets Obama for private chat in Map Room”, Worldfocus, PBS, February 18th, 2010, at .

“U.S.-China: Dalai Lama Drama”. Council on Foreign Relations, February 17th, 2010, at .

“Tibet Expert: Dalai Lama is 'Spirit of the Nation'”, Nightly News, MSNBC, March 10, 2009.

“China cancels EU summit meeting over Tibet”, Worldfocus, PBS, November 28th, 2008, at .

“Religion and the Future of China”, Panel, Council on Foreign Relations, New York; June 2008. At

TV Interview for CNN, March 2008: .

Radio Interview for 30-min-documentary Tibet: The Story of a Feud on BBC Radio 4, April 2008: .

Radio Interview for NPR, April 2008:

Radio Interview for NPR, April 2008:

Radio Interview for NPR, May 2008:

“Tibetan Unrest and the Drapchi Nuns”, Women’s Hour, BBC Radio 4, March 18th, 2008, at .

NPR “U.S. Scholar: Protests a 'Disaster' for China, Tibet”, March 14, 2008

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“Dallying with the Dalai Lama”, The World Tonight, BBC Radio 4, October 18th, 2007, at

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“Empty Vessel”, On the Media, NPR, May 11, 2007, at .

h) Research Monographs and Reports

The Karmapa’s Journey to India, 1999-2000: Policy Implications, Centre de Prevision et d'Analyse, Quai d'Orsai, Paris, May 2000 (71 pp., 44,000 wds)

Reports from Tibet 1996 - TIN News Review No. 25, TIN (Tibet Information Network), London, March 1997 (190 pp., 81,000 wds)

Reports from Tibet: April to December 1995 - TIN News Review No. 24, TIN, London, December 1995 (79 pp., 74,000 wds)

Documents and Statements from Tibet, 1995 - TIN Background Briefing Paper No.26 (Supplementary Material to TIN News Review No 24). Editor. TIN, London, December 1995 (69 pp.; 67,000 wds)

"Responses to Written Questions in "Annex 1"", in Bundestag Hearing on Tibet, 19 June 1995, German Parliament, June 1995 (11 pp., 7,000 wds)

Security Policy in the TAR, 1992-4: Analysis of a Speech, TIN, London, March 1995 (46 pp., 26,000 wds)

Reports from Tibet November 1994-March 1995 - TIN News Review No.23, March 1995, TIN, London, March 1995 (53 pp., 44,000 wds)

Restrictions on Religion in Tibet, TIN, London, March 1995 (114 pp., 32,000 wds)

Reports from Tibet, July to October 1994 - TIN News Review No 22, TIN, London, 8th November 1994 (56 pp., 42,000 wds)

Demolition and Reconstruction in the Old Quarter of Lhasa 1993 - TIN Background Briefing Paper No.23, 8 November, 1994. Editor and Co-author. TIN, London 1994 (50 pp., 17,000 wds)

Reports from Tibet, April-June 1994 - TIN News Review, 6 July 1994, TIN, London, July 1994 (36 pp., 32,000 wds)

News from Tibet, October-March 1994 - TIN News Review 26 April 1994, TIN, London, April 1994 (57 pp., 51,000 wds)

Survey of Birth Control Policies in Tibet. Editor. TIN, London, March 1994 (96 pp., 34,000 wds)

Documents on Birth Control from TAR and Kandze (Ganze), 1985-91. Editor. TIN, London, March, 1994 (116 pp., 49,000 wds)

Reports from Tibet October 1992 to October 1993: Parts 1-3: TIN News Compilation, October 1993, TIN, London, October 1993 (82 pp., 85,000)

Reports from Tibet 1992-3: Parts 4-5 - TIN News Compilation, October 1993, TIN, London, October 1993 (42 pp., 23,000 wds)

Tibetan Views of Immigration into Central Tibet, 1992-3: A Study of Reports from Tibet , TIN, London, 1993 (47 pp., 20,000 wds)

Background Papers on Tibet, September 1992 - Literature; Religion; Party History, TIN, London, September 1992 (53 pp.; 35,000 wds)

"Evangelicals in Central Tibet" in Robert Barnett (ed.), Background Papers on Tibet, September 1992 - Literature; Religion; Party History, TIN, London September 1992, pp. 70-76

“The Role of Information in Human Rights - The Case of Tibet, 1987-92”, paper presented at the conference Tibet - diritti umani, diritte dei popoli at the Centro di Studi e di Formazione sui Diritti dell'Uomi e dei Popoli, the University of Padua, Italy, April 1992

"Nationality Policy in China" in Susan Whitfield (ed.), Human Rights in China, June 4 China Support, London, 1993

Reports from Tibet: March-September 1992 - TIN News Compilation 2nd October 1992, TIN, London, October 1992 (34 pp., 55,000 wds)

"Extrajudicial forms of political control in Tibet”. With Nicholas Howen. In Situation in Tibet: Note and Annexes, Report of the UN Secretary-General, E/CN.4/1992/37, UN Commission on Human Rights, Geneva 1992

Reports from Tibet: March-August 1991 - Part 1: TIN News Update 30th August 1991, TIN, London, 30th August 1991 (35 pp., 45,000 wds)

Reports from Tibet: March-August 1991 - Part 2: TIN News Update 30th August 1991, TIN, London, August 1991 (49 pp., 44,000 wds)

Reports from Tibet, November 1990-February 1991, TIN, London, February 1991 (20 pp., 23,000 wds)

Reports from Tibet August-October 1990 - TIN News Update 10th November 1990, TIN, London, November 1990 (21 pp., 29,000 wds)

Reconstruction in the Old City of Lhasa - TIN Housing Supplement 9th November 1990, TIN, London 1990 (23 pp., 7,000 wds)

Extracts from Interviews: Recent Information on the Situation in Tibet, May 25th 1990, TIN, London, May 1990 (25 pp., 16,000 wds)

Material and Spiritual Construction: Economic Development and the Propaganda Offensive - TIN Supplement, 20th February 1990. Edtior. TIN, London, 1990 (21 pp., 9,000 wds)

"TIN Survey: Propaganda Initiatives in China and Tibet" in Robert Barnett (ed.), Material and Spiritual Construction: Economic Development and the Propaganda Offensive - TIN Supplement, 20th February 1990, TIN, London, 1990, pp. 7-16

TIN News Update 17 August 1990: Reports from Tibet June/July 1990, TIN, London August 1990 (53 pp., 23,000 wds)

TIN News Update 30th May 1990, TIN, London, May 1990 (18 pp., 8,700 wds)

TIN News Update 30th April 1990, TIN, London, April 1990 (25 pp., 10,000 wds)

TIN News Update 9th March 1990, TIN, London, May 1990 (18 pp., 8,800 wds)

Random Notes on Population, TIN, London, 15 April 1990 (16 pp., 4,500 wds)

Index of Printed Documents, TIN, London, 16th February 1990 (5 pp., 1,600 wds)

TIN News Update 27th December 1989, TIN, London, December 1989 (19 pp., 6,000 wds)

British Parliamentary Debate on Tibet, 13 December 1989: Notes and Comments, TIN, London, 22 December 1989 (20 pp., 9,400 wds)

The Role of Nuns in Tibetan Protest - Preliminary Notes, TIN, London, October 17th 1989 (14 pp., 5,000 wds)

TIN News Update September 15th 1989, TIN, London, September 1989 (13 pp., 5,700 wds)

News Update, TIN, June 3rd 1989, TIN, London, June 1989 (8 pp., 3,000 wds)

A Note on the Events of March 1989, Lhasa, Tibet. Co-author. TIN, London, March 1989 (6 pp., 2,000 wds)

Tibet Information Network News Update 22 March 1989, TIN, London, March 1989 (7 pp., 2,800 wds)

TIBET - Prisoners and Torture 1988, TIN, London, November 1988 (17 pp., 4,500 wds)

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