The Tibet Vernacular paper is the first modern newspaper to have been established in Tibet. Written in both Tibetan

Tibetan language

The Tibetan languages are a cluster of mutually-unintelligible Tibeto-Burman languages spoken primarily by Tibetan peoples who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering the Indian subcontinent, including the Tibetan Plateau and the northern Indian subcontinent in Baltistan, Ladakh,...

 and Chinese

Chinese language

The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...

, it was founded in April 1909 by amban

Amban

Amban is a Manchu word meaning "high official," which corresponds to a number of different official titles in the Qing imperial government...

 Lian Yu, and his deputy Zhang Yintang, in the final years of the Qing Dynasty

Qing Dynasty

The Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a brief, abortive restoration in 1917. It was preceded by the Ming Dynasty and followed by the Republic of China....

. It was lithographically printed and its print-run was fewer than 100 copies a day.

See also

Bai Runsheng, Abrégé de l’histoire de (la) presse chinoise, Éditions de Chine Nouvelle, 1998

• The Tibet Mirror
  Tibet Mirror
  The Tibet Mirror is the English name of a Tibetan-language newspaper that was published in Kalimpong, India, from 1925 to 1962 and circulated in Tibet...