I was pleased to learn of the publication of Tenzin Jinba's ethnography of recent state-local conflicts (in the first decade of the 2000s) over discovering the ancient locale of the so-called “Eastern Queendom” amidst a tourism boom in the Gyarong region of the Sino-Tibetan frontier zone. For a variety of reasons, gender as an analytic has been a nonstarter in Tibet scholarship both within and outside of the People's Republic of China (PRC). This is one of only a handful of books and articles (in any language) since the 1990s addressing gender politics among Tibetans, and it is the first book since my own in 2007 that situates gender as an important aspect of the politics of ethnicity among Tibetans in the PRC's western frontier zone.1
Further, as a Gyarong Tibetan scholar who got his PhD in anthropology in the United States at Boston University, Tenzin Jinba provides us...
