The World-Wide Web Virtual Library
24 Jan 2001
Tibet Information Network (TIN)
Tibet Information Network, London, UK
Self-description: "An independent news and research service reporting on Tibet today."
Site contents:
Reports [and annotated photographs - ed.] from Tibet: (Culture, Economy,
Education, Environment, Outside Tibet, Patriotic Education, Policies
and Leaders, Prisoners and Protest, Religion, Tourism, Women); News
updates [35-40 a year, with online editions since Jan 1997, also
available for free via email - ed.]; TIN publications [incl. 37 TIN
Background Briefing Papers published since 1988 - ed.], About TIN/Contact;
Tibet File (Selected books on Tibet, Travel to Tibet, Chronology,
Glossaries, Population statistics (for Tibetan counties in the Tibet
Autonomous Region and the neighboring provinces of Qinghai, Gansu,
Sichuan and Yunnan); Tibetan counties & prefectures [their lists,
maps]; Images from Tibet); Search; External Links (Aid and Development
Agencies, Media Sites, China Related Sites, Images and Film, Tibet
Related Sites, Books, Human Rights, Travel & maps, Libraries and
Academic Sites).
Supplied note: "Those of you who speak/read Tibetan and/or Chinese, might like to know
that Tibet Information Network (TIN) has for some time been providing summaries
of selected TIN News Updates on our website, [see the URL below],
translated into both Tibetan and Chinese. No special software is needed
to read this material.
[...]
The most recent material to appear has been translations into Tibetan and
Chinese of sections of our latest research publication 'China's Great Leap
West.'"
[A superbly organized and designed online research tool - ed.]
URL http://www.tibetinfo.net/
Link reported by: Richard Oppenheimer (tin@tibetinfo.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study/Documents/News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential