By Ma Rong
This large survey records Tibetan society over 5 many years, together with inhabitants constitution in rural and concrete parts, marriage and migration styles, the upkeep of language and conventional tradition, fiscal transitions in terms of source of revenue and intake behavior, academic improvement, and the expansion of civil society and social businesses. as well as family surveys accomplished over 20 years, the ebook presents a scientific research of all on hand social and census facts published by way of the chinese language govt, and an intensive assessment of Western and chinese language literature at the subject. it's the first ebook on Tibetan society released in English by means of a mainland China pupil, and covers numerous delicate matters in Tibetan reviews, together with inhabitants alterations, Han migration into Tibetan parts, intermarriage styles, and ethnic relations.--Ma Rong is a largely revered demographer and professor of sociology at Peking collage. He spent 5 years in internal Mongolia throughout the Cultural Revolution, and was once one of many first chinese language scholars to review within the US after Deng Xiaoping's reforms, receiving his doctorate measure from Brown University.-- "The educational research of Tibet nonetheless suffers from an absence of exact information and regulations on entry to Tibet for study. This very invaluable research increases the standard of the dialogue and aid to right many misguided Western impressions of Tibet." - Gerard Postiglione, collage of Hong Kong-
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All Rights Reserved. 1. The Geographic Distribution of Ethnic Tibetans in China Province* Num. 0 Tibetan population in 1953 census Province* Num. Province* Num. Province* Num. Province* Inner Mongolia 377 Guizhou 16 Hebei 6 Rehe Beijing 334 Heilongjiang 10 Hunan 5 Guangxi Shaanxi 57 Anhui 9 Shandong 4 Ningxia Xinjiang 37 Guangdong 9 Hubei 3 Jiangxi 30 Jiangsu 9 Fujian 3 Above 24 Zhejiang 28 Liaoning 8 Jilin 3 Shanxi 24 Shanghai 6 Henan 2 Tibetan population in 1964 census Shaanxi 2420 Shanghai 69 Heilongjiang Xinjiang 958 Hebei 65 Anhui Beijing 808 Shanxi 60 Jiangsu Inner Mongolia 459 Liaoning 45 Zhejiang Henan 152 Hunan 45 Ningxia Guangdong 83 Hubei 36 Guangxi Guizhou 76 Shandong 29 Jilin Tibetan population in 1982 census Xinjiang 1967 Shandong 173 Hubei Shaanxi 1120 Guangxi 149 Jiangsu Beijing 820 Hebei 127 Shanxi Henan 521 Anhuei 105 Liaoning Inner Mongolia 504 Shanghai 104 Heilongjiang Guangdong 388 Hunan 95 Ningxia Gueizhou 205 Fujian 87 Jiangxi Tibetan population in 1990 census Xinjiang 2235 Jiangsu 866 Hunan Henan 1606 Inner Mongolia 807 Tianjin Beijing 1329 Hubei 760 Shanxi Shaanxi 1319 Gueizhou 677 Jiangxi Guangdong 1307 Shanghai 637 Zhejiang Hebei 995 Liaoning 625 Fujian Shandong 932 Anhuei 558 Guangxi Tibetan population in 2000 census Guangdong 7020 Shandong 2733 Guizhou Xinjiang 6153 Jiangsu 2659 Heilongjiang Henan 3953 Chongqing 2292 Jiangxi Hebei 3096 Anhui 2263 Hubei Shaanxi 3048 Guangxi 2194 Shanghai Hunan 2930 Inner Mongolia 2062 Jilin Beijing 2920 Liaoning 2017 Shanxi 28 23 23 22 15 14 8 6 4 3454 Above 24 8897 552 505 474 397 393 282 211 1787 1655 1649 1648 1642 1615 1544 (c) 2011 Hong Kong University Press.
Some of (c) 2011 Hong Kong University Press. All Rights Reserved. The Geographic Distribution and Changes in the Tibetan Population of China 35 them were still single, and most married people left their children and the elderly at home. These government employees would rejoin their families in home regions after their service period in Tibet ended. If it really was the case that “a huge amount of Han in-migrants occupied the home and land of Tibetans (as is often claimed by the Tibetans in exile),” the Han population pyramid would be normal and close to that of the Tibetans, a real pyramid rather than a spindle.
Goldstein is the foremost scholar in Tibetan studies in the United States. Based on systematic and in-depth research of official documents and personal interviews, his publications are widely accepted and the most influential in the field. His field research stated, For the Lhasa ‘masses’, most individuals we spoke to said that they were not sure what the official rules were but that limits were not being strictly enforced . . In the summer of 1990, a new policy was implemented in Lhasa, which, for the first time, clearly stipulated that the urban ‘masses’ were permitted to bear only two children per couple, this bringing them into line with the regulation for Tibetan cadre.