The Tibetan Government in Exile site contains information on the status of Tibet and human rights abuses by the Chinese Government. The State Visit of Chinese President Jiang Zemin last week represented a thaw in official Sino-US Relations, which have been somewhat chilly since Tiananmen in 1989. Despite reaching agreements on a broad range of security, economic, environmental and law-enforcement...

Working together with the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, Columbia University Libraries Digital Collections have digitized 97 issues of the Tibet Mirror. This remarkable publication was issued from 1925 to 1963 in Kalimpong and "chronicles the most dramatic social and political transformation in Tibet." The paper relayed information about World War II, the...

As stated on the home page, "The Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library is an international community using Web-based technologies to integrate diverse knowledge about Tibet and the Himalayas for free access from around the world." In other words, visitors to THDL can expect more than an image database and digital documents, although these materials are present. The Guide to Resources, accessed by...