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I am a researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in the research project “e-Topia: China, India and Biometric Borders”. I have received my doctoral degree in China studies from the University of Oslo. I am also an authorized interpreter in Tibetan and Chinese languages in Norway. My research interests include Tibetan identity, language, cultural change, pastoralism, development discourses, and digital governance, with a particular focus on Chinese state development drive.
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The Chinese development drive in Tibet is characterized by rapid urbanization of Tibet's small towns, along with an ever-increasing influx of migrants from China's inland provinces. Based on the author's memories and personal experiences of Lhasa, as well as his later field studies in the Tibetan capital, this article takes a critical look at the t...
The term "development" defines the Chinese official discourse on Tibet and Tibetans. Officials speak of development in symbolic and practical terms as it serves the overall policy strategy towards Tibet. This paper examines the meaning of development in the context of encounters between government officials and local residents in Dartsedo (Chin.:Ka...
This report describes and analyses the data of the lDongpa dialect of Lamo concerning the ten phrases for the special volume of the Journal of the Institute of Language Research 14, which focuses on the cross-linguistic study of ‘passive expressions’.
Lamo (Tibeto-Burman; spoken in mDzogong County of Chamdo, TAR) is a tone language with a two-way distinction between H (high) and L (low) just like its sister languages, Larong sMar and Drag-yab sMar. In describing its suprasegmental system, we find a word-tone system similar to many Tibetic languages, but different from them in the tone-bearing un...
Lamo (Tibeto-Burman; spoken in mDzogong County of Chamdo, TAR) is a tone language with two-way distinction: H (high) and L (low). So are its sister languages Larong sMar and Drag-yab sMar. In describing its suprasegmental system, we find a word-tone system, which is similar to many Tibetic languages but differs from them in the tone-bearing unit. T...
This article describes numeral forms of three newly-recognised languages named Lamo, Larong sMar, and Drag-yab sMar spoken in Chamdo Municipality of the Tibet Autonomous Region. It principally focuses on word forms of the numerals from ‘one’ to ‘twenty’. Through a contrastive description, these three languages have to some extent received the influ...
This article describes the evidential system of Lamo (Kyilwa dialect), focusing on the copulative and existential verbs and referring to the model of the evidential system of Tibetic languages. Lamo is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in lDongpa and Zhonglinka Townships in mDzogong County, Chamdo Municipality, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The art...
This article presents information regarding newly recognised non-Tibetic Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in three counties, Dzogang, Markham, and Drag-yab, of Chamdo Municipality and the adjacent Dzayul County in the Tibet Autonomous Region. First, we introduce four languages – Lamo, Larong sMar, Drag-yab sMar, and gSerkhu – identifying the location...
