Tibet and Chinese Turkestan 1

Chinese donkey friends in Tibet: evidence from the cyberspace community

Re-visiting ‘Galen in Tibet’1

This paper readdresses the assertion found in much secondary literature that Greek medicine was adopted in Tibet in the seventh and eighth centuries. I discuss some of the traces of Galenic medical knowledge in early Tibetan medicine, and raise the question of why Tibetan medical histories who mention Galen give Galenic medicine a much more significant place than is evidenced in the Tibetan med...

Raising tibet.

Thermochronologic, sedimentologic, oceanographic, and paleoclimatic studies suggest that rapid uplift and unroofing of southern Tibet began about 20 million years ago and that the present elevation of much of the Tibetan plateau was attained by about 8 million years ago. Hypotheses advanced to explain the tectonic evolution of the India-Asia collision, which began about 40 to 50 million years a...

Burden of disease resulting from chronic mountain sickness among young Chinese male immigrants in Tibet

BACKGROUND In young Chinese men of the highland immigrant population, chronic mountain sickness (CMS) is a major public health problem. The aim of this study was to measure the disease burden of CMS in this population. METHODS We used disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) to estimate the disease burden of CMS. Disability weights were derived using the person trade-off methodology. CMS diagno...

Constructing the Qinghai-Tibet Railroad: new challenges to Chinese permafrost scientists

The new Qinghai-Tibet railroad will run across the world’s highest permafrost region for 632 km, of which about half is high-temperature and ice-rich permafrost. Therefore, an important and challenging engineering problem is the possible instability and sensitivity of permafrost. Chinese permafrost scientists are now making efforts to solve the problem by carrying out numerous field and laborat...