Tag: Self-immolations

Ai Weiwei & Mo Yan on Publicity and Responsibility

In an interview and a recent speech, respectively, artist Ai Weiwei and Nobel-winning author Mo Yan expressed sharply different attitudes towards public exposure and social and political responsibility. From Bernhard Zand, talking to Ai Weiwei for Spiegel Online: SPIEGEL: How have you been lately? Ai: In general I am fine; my situation is as good as anybody else’s. It is still difficult but

May 10, 2013 1:35 PM

CCTV Blames ‘Dalai Clique’ for Self-Immolations

As the exiled prime minister of Tibet has been engaging in a series of interviews with world media outlets and as Li Keqi

May 17, 2013 12:43 PM

Conversations with Tibet’s Exiled Prime Minister

Harvard educated Dr. Lobsang Sangay was elected as the Tibetan government-in-exile’s equivalent of prime minister i

May 16, 2013 2:25 PM

Three Tibetan Self-Immolations Reported in One Day

Reports have come in about three separate self-immolation protests today in Tibetan areas of Sichuan. Phayul reports on t

April 24, 2013 11:06 PM

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