Tibet Vernacular Paper

The Tibet Vernacular paper is the first modern newspaper to have been established in Tibet. Written in both Tibetan and Chinese, it was founded in April 1909 by amban Lian Yu, and his deputy Zhang Yintang, in the final years of the Qing Dynasty. It was lithographically printed and its print-run was fewer than 100 copies a day.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Protection and Development of Tibetan Culture (White Paper), China Daily, 25-09-2008, p. 7: Old Tibet had only one lithographically printed newspaper in the Tibetan language in the last years of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), titled The Tibet Vernacular Newspaper, and its print-run was fewer than 100 copies a day.
  2. ^ Thubten Samphel, Virtual Tibet: The Media, in Exile as challenge: the Tibetan diaspora (Dagmar Bernstorff, Hubertus von Welck eds.), Orient Blackswan, 2003, 488 pages, especially pp. 171-172 ISBN 81-250-2555-3, ISBN 978-81-250-2555-9: Tibet's first newspaper, Vernacular Paper, was started by the Manchu amban, Lian Yu, ad his deputy, Zhang Yintong in April 1909. The newspaper was bilingual, in Tibetan and Chinese.

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