Lauran Hartley

ADJUNCT LECTURER IN TIBETAN LITERATURE

Office:  300 Kent Hall
Office Hours: By appointment
Phone: (212)854-9875
Email: lh2112@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: Northwestern University (’85)
MA: Indiana University (’98)
PhD: Indiana University (’03)

Classes Taught

EAAS GU4553 Survey of Tibetan Literature

Research Interests

Tibetan Literature and Cultural Production, Translation Studies

Lauran Hartley is Tibetan Studies Librarian for the C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University and occasionally serves as Adjunct Lecturer in Tibetan Literature for the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. She has also taught courses on Tibetan literature and religion at Indiana and Rutgers universities. In addition to co-editing the book Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change (Duke University Press, 2008) and serving as Inner Asian Book Review Editor for the Journal of Asian Studies, she has also published several literary translations and articles on Tibetan intellectual history. Her current research focuses on literary production and discourse from the eighteenth century to present.

Selected Publications

Co-editor, Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change (Duke University Press, 2008)

“The Advent of Modern Tibetan Free-Verse Poetry in the Tibetan Language” in A New Literary History of Modern China (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017)

“Self as a faithful public servant: The autobiography of Mdo mkhar ba Tshe ring dbang rgyal (1697–1763)” in Mapping the Modern in Tibet. Proceedings of the 11th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, 2006 (Andiast, Switzerland: International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies GmbH, 2011)

“Ascendancy of the Term rtsom-rig [literature] in Tibetan Literary Discourse” in Contemporary Tibetan Literary Studies. Proceedings of the 10th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, 2003 (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007)

“Tibetan Publishing in the Early Post-Mao Period.” Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie 15 (2005)

 

Patrick Booz

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Office Hours: W 9:00 am-12:00pm
Email: prb2126@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: University of Wisconsin (’78)
MPhil: University of Oxford (’06)
DPhil: University of Oxford (’11)

Classes Taught

ASCE 1359                 INTRO TO EAST ASIAN CIV: CHINA

Research Interests

Borderland Studies, Economic History, Transport Geography, Tea, Material Culture, History of Printing

I wrote my thesis on “Tea, Trade and Transport in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands.” This work focuses on the convergence of geography, history, and anthropology, particularly in the regions of southwest China. Border issues and commodity economics, especially the history of Sino-Tibetan economic relations, are main areas of research. In addition to tea, I have a strong interest in the development of printing, bookmaking and manuscripts in Chinese civilization. In the area of visual culture, I spent several years researching color and painting, and also locating, documenting and preserving historic photographs, art historical and other visual materials related to China and Tibet.

Selected Publications

“Tibet and Tea: A Summary of Trade, Social Customs and Sino-Tibetan Relations Dealing with Ja/Cha.” In Commerce and Communities – Social Status and Political Status and the Exchange of Goods in Tibetan Societies (Mid 17th to mid 20th centuries). Berlin 2018.

“To Control Tibet, First Pacify Kham”: Trade Routes and “Official Routes” (Guandao) in Easternmost Kham.” Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review. Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, e-journal, June 2016.

“In and Out of Borders: The Beifu Tea Porters Encounter Tibet.” Cahiers no. 23, 2014 d’Extrême-Asie. École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO), centre de Kyoto. 29 Kita-shirakawa bettō-chō, Sakyō-ku, Kyōto 606-8276, Japan.

“Fear of Indian Tea and the Failure of British India to Break the Chinese Tea Monopoly in Tibet.” In Buddhist Himalaya: Studies in Religion, History and Culture. 2011. Gangtok, Sikkim: Namgyal Institute of Tibetology.