Area of inquiry 02
Tibet
The plateau and its southern rim: monastic institutions, pilgrimage, high-altitude agriculture and frontier identity.
- Pilgrimage
- Monastic economies
- Plateau agriculture
- Frontier identity
Writing
Travel Journal · EN
The Trade Cities of Western Yunnan
Essay · EN
The Eight White Yurts
Essay · EN
Cheese Between East and West
Essay · EN
The Yarkand Sarai and the Kashmir Route
Travel Journal · EN
The Walled Garden of the Chinese Market
Essay · EN
The Yellow Dragon
Essay · EN
Guanyin of the Dali Valley
Essay · EN
Goiters on the Inner Asian Trails
Essay · EN
Of Saffron and Strangers
Essay · EN
The Other Incense Road
Essay · EN
Horses, Selenium, and the Frontiers of China
Travel Journal · EN
The Afghan Walk
Essay · EN
From a Bowl of Porridge to a Plate of Spaghetti
Essay · EN
A Tangut Blessing for the Road
Essay · EN
The Yogurt Revolution
Essay · EN
The Myth of the Authentic Tribe
Research · EN
Spinning Gold from Straw
Research · EN
Turks and Poets: From Skulls to Goblets
Essay · EN
The Tea Porters of Sichuan
Essay · EN
“Wakhan, where the people worship Mahomet and speak a strange tongue”
Essay · EN
The Blacksmiths of the Bonan Frontier
Essay · EN
The Noodle Kingdom
Essay · EN
Back to the Steppe: The Geography of Central Asia
Essay · EN
Lotus from the West: The Iranian Roots of Buddhism
Essay · EN
Seeking Figs, Even in China
Essay · EN
The Teahouses and Sufis of Kashgar
Essay · EN
Dumplings on the Silk Road
Essay · EN
Frontier Poetry
Essay · EN
Bones of Fortune
Research · EN
God’s Bonsai
Research · EN
The Exiles of Samarkand
Research · EN
Rebels of the Black Tent
Research · EN
Taming the Snow Leopard: A Central Asian Mystery
Essay · EN
The Scent of Tibet: Along the Musk Road
Essay · EN
Horses for Tea
Essay · EN
Toxic Trees and Human Lacquerware
Essay · EN
Architecture II: Fire, Wind, and Silence
Essay · EN
Under Open Skies
Essay · EN
Out of the Mist: The Old Tea Horse Road
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