Research on the Tibetan tribal system

Author: Compiled by the Institute of Tibetan Studies, Shenghai Provincial Academy of Social Sciences
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Publishing Date: 2002-12-01
Features: China is the homeland of Tibetan studies. Tibet is an integral part of China, and the Tibetan people are an important member of the Chinese nation. These are precisely the fundamental conditions for the emergence and development of Tibetan studies, as well as an inexhaustible source of inspiration. This humanities and social science discipline, which has grown and flourished on the Chinese mainland, has now become a world-renowned field of study. To showcase the achievements of Tibetan studies in China, strengthen academic exchanges with international peers, promote the prosperity and development of Tibetan studies, and serve the construction of civilization in Tibet and other Tibetan regions, we have compiled and published this series of books, The Modern Chinese Tibetan Studies Library, under the leadership of the China Tibetology Research Center. The series primarily includes four aspects: academic monographs by Chinese Tibetan scholars (including scholars from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan); Tibetan studies documents of significant value (including historical documents compiled by modern scholars); Tibetan academic masterpieces translated into Chinese; and doctoral theses in Tibetan studies (outstanding master's theses may be included on a case-by-case basis). All included works are evaluated solely based on their academic value, and literary works, travelogues, popular reading materials, etc., are not included. As a fundamental construction project in Chinese Tibetan studies, we will continue this work in the long term. This book attempts to explain the process of social system development and evolution in Tibetan tribal areas before liberation, as well as the characteristics of Tibetan tribes that retained bloodline tribal organizational forms but had essentially long entered a feudal society and become regional tribes, in terms of politics, law, military, economy, religious beliefs, and social culture, using the theory of human society's development by Marxism as a guiding principle.