Tsering Topgyal

@BhamTsetop

Department of Political Science and International Studies

University of Birmingham

birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles… Joined September 2016

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Tsering Topgyal @BhamTsetop Mar 8

Full article: “The greatest risk facing China in the 21st century is national disintegration”: ontological insecurity and self-grasping in China’s nationalities Policy tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

www.tandfonline.com “The greatest risk facing China in the 21st century is national disintegration”: ontological... Why do states seeking security by forging a singular national identity adopt policies that reinforce the very distinctiveness they seek to erase? This article addresses this puzzle through ontologi...

Tsering Topgyal @BhamTsetop Oct 27

Narrative ‘Self-Grasping’ and Ontological Insecurity: Beijing’s Sinicisation of Tibetan and Uyghur Histories - Tsering Topgyal, 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…

journals.sagepub.com Narrative ‘Self-Grasping’ and Ontological Insecurity: Beijing’s Sinicisation of Tibetan and Uyghur... This article interrogates the Chinese state’s pursuit of ontological security (OS) through the Sinicisation of history, conceptualised as narrative self-graspin...

Tsering Topgyal @BhamTsetop Jun 13, 2024

EU being EU!
ft.com/content/d9a320… via @ft

www.ft.com What the EU’s tariffs on electric vehicles mean for China Brussels’ duties heighten trade tensions with Beijing but are unlikely to stop the advance of Chinese-made electric cars

Tsering Topgyal @BhamTsetop Mar 10, 2024

Tibet in Asia’s Future: Repression, Resilience and Relevance link.medium.com/KPdUZDblRHb

Forthcoming on the RSAA Blog, but self-published here in time for the 10th March Anniversary.

link.medium.com Tibet in Asia’s Future: Repression, Resilience and Relevance Forthcoming, Royal Society of Asian Affairs blog: https://rsaa.org.uk/blog/.

Tsering Topgyal @BhamTsetop Mar 9, 2024

Yay! We are no longer 6 million! :-)

Andrew M. Fischer @AndrewM_Fischer Mar 7, 2024

Some #Tibet data as I'm getting back into #China's 2020 population #census. The census counted just over 7 million Tibetans.

Assuming a conservative natural pop increase rate of around 0.8% (based on what I've seen from the data) current population would be about 7.232 million.
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