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Digital Collection: Tibet Mirror
(NEW YORK, July 10, 2009)
Tibet Mirror is a new digital library of 97 issues of the Tibet Mirror Newspaper(Tib. Yul phyogs so so'i gsar 'gyur me long) online for scholars to consult and study. The collection is available online.
| The digitized newspapers date from 1933 to 1961, and offer a total of 844 scanned pages drawn from the rich collections of the C. V. Starr East Asian Library. This Tibetan-language newspaper was published from 1925 to 1963 in Kalimpong, India, and chronicles the most dramatic social and political transformation to have occurred in Tibet during a time when vernacular writing was relatively scarce, and a Tibetan media otherwise non-existent. Columbia's holdings represent about 30% of the paper's full run. |
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