About - KOBAYASHI Ryōsuke

Kobayashi Ryōsuke 小林亮介 is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies at Kyushu University, Japan. He specializes in modern Tibetan history, and his research interests include the local history of Eastern Tibet and the Ganden Phodrang government’s foreign relations in the early twentieth century. His publications include The Resurgence of “Buddhist Government”: Tibetan-Mongolian Relations in the Modern World (as coauthor; Union Press, 2019); “Zhang Yintang’s Military Reforms in 1906–1907 and Their Aftermath: The Introduction of Militarism in Tibet,” in “Asian Influences on Tibetan Military History between the 17th and 20th Centuries,” ed. S. G. FitzHerbert and Alice Travers, special issue, Revue d’Études Tibétaines 53 (2020); and Kindai Chibetto seiji gaikōshi: Shinchō hōkai ni tomonau seijiteki chii to kyōkai 近代チベット政治外交史：清朝崩壊にともなう政治的地位と 境界 [Political and Diplomatic History of Modern Tibet: Tibetan Political Status and Boundaries following the Collapse of the Qing Dynasty] (Nagoya University Press, 2024).