Publications


Forthcoming


Historical Afterword (to 'We Tibetans' by Rinchen Lhamo [1926])


Tim Chamberlain (with Rinchen Lhamo & Louis Magrath King)

'We Tibetans' by Rinchen Lhamo [1926], 100th anniversary edition, 2026


Mountains and Mysticism: Escapism and Authenticity in the Cinematic Exploration of the Himalaya


Tim Chamberlain

Cynthia J. Miller & Sue Matheson (eds.), Explorers on Screen: Adventure, Danger, Romance, Edinburgh University Press, 2025


Articles & Book Chapters


Far Away Frontiers and Spiritual Sanctuaries: Occidental Escapism in the High Himalaya


Tim Chamberlain

Paul Gilchrist Peter H. Hansen & Jonathan Westaway (eds.), Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds, Manchester University Press, 2024


The View from the Legation: British Diplomatic Diaries during the Boxer Siege of 1900


Tim Chamberlain

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society China, vol. 77(1), 2017, pp. 5-28


Books of Change: A Western Family's Writings on China, 1855-1949


Tim Chamberlain

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society China, vol. 75(1), 2013, pp. 55-76


Edge of Empires


Tim Chamberlain

British Museum Magazine, vol. 66(Spring/Summer), 2010, pp. 50-52


The Elusive Urn


Tim Chamberlain

British Museum Magazine, vol. 52(Summer), 2005, pp. 36-38


Book Reviews


Book Review: A Historical Atlas of Tibet, by Karl E. Ryavec


Tim Chamberlain

LSE Review of Books, 2015



Unpublished Essays & Degree Theses


Empirical Adventurers: Science and Imperial Exploration in East Tibet, 1900-1949


Tim Chamberlain

PhD Thesis (Unpublished), Birkbeck College, University of London, 2025


Science and Spies on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier, 1913-1922


Tim Chamberlain

MA Thesis (Unpublished), Birkbeck College, University of London, 2014


Japanese and American Colonial Assimilation through Education in Taiwan and The Philippines


Tim Chamberlain

MA Essay (Unpublished), Birkbeck College, University of London, 2013


British Influence on the Decline of the Ottoman Empire in the Late Nineteenth Century


Tim Chamberlain

MA Essay (Unpublished), Birkbeck College, University of London, 2013


An Ailing Empire: Maintaining the Qing Dynasty's Imperial Mandate into the Twentieth Century


Tim Chamberlain

MA Essay (Unpublished), Birkbeck College, University of London, 2012


Samizdat in Czechoslovakia: Communitas and Resistance


Tim Chamberlain

BSc Essay (Unpublished), University of East London, 1996


Personal Blogs & Other Publications


Shinobazu Pond 俳句


Tim Chamberlain

Personal Blog - Haiku & Short Verse, 2025


Jack Kerouac: Lonesome Traveller in London, 1957


Tim Chamberlain

Beat Scene Press, Chapbook No. 79, 2023


From Shanghai to Old Tachienlu: Travel & Research in China & Tibet


Tim Chamberlain

Travel & Fieldwork Journal, 2023


Waymarks ~


Tim Chamberlain

Personal Blog - History & Travel Writing, 2011