Abstract: Based on a content analysis of five Tibetan newspapers in the Himalayan region in the first half of the 20th century, this study identified obvious Chinese factors in their founding background and content. Tibetan newspapers in the Himalayan region originated from missionary newspapers and presented different styles in the east and west wings. Ladakh News was one of the earliest Tibetan newspapers. They then embarked on different secular and religious development paths. Tibetan newspapers in the east and west wings of the Himalayas had strong connections and interactivity in content In addition they invented many methods of distribution such as bazaar communication inn communication and caravan communication. Their emergence and cross-border spread showed that it was penetrated by modernized western missionary newspapers to China. It was not only from the southeast coast, but also from both eastern and western China. Tibetan newspapers outside the Himalayan region served as tools for western colonial countries to infiltrate China’s Tibet in terms of religion, culture, and politics. They eventually became the most important mass media intermediary for information dissemination from China mainland to China’s Tibet in the first half of the 20th century. Under the power game of tributary and colonial systems, early Tibetan newspapers in the Himalayan region showed strong antagonism due to religious conflict and geopolitics．
