Lhasa Riot Rage Rendered in Hip-Hop
Chinese anger over the Tibet riots and Western media’s coverage of them has now been immortalized in a rap song. Entitled “Dragon’s Roar” (龙哮), the song and an accompanying video have been circulating...
Read MorePosted by Zhaohua Li | Apr 11, 2008
Chinese anger over the Tibet riots and Western media’s coverage of them has now been immortalized in a rap song. Entitled “Dragon’s Roar” (龙哮), the song and an accompanying video have been circulating...
Read MorePosted by Wu Nan | Mar 19, 2008
The Tibet provincial government just stopped issuing travel permits to individual international visitors. From Bloomberg. Chinese authorities discouraged tour groups from visiting Tibet, saying pro-independence activists damaged...
Read MorePosted by Xiao Qiang | Mar 16, 2008
Tibetan unrest has prompted the Chinese government to undertake its most comprehensive Internet censorship campaign in recent memory. YouTube has been blocked inside China, presumably to stop the spread of videos of the chaos in...
Read MorePosted by Liu Yong | Apr 29, 2008
The number of jailed Lhasa protesters now roars to 30. From Bloomberg: Chinese authorities in Tibet said 30 people were jailed yesterday for taking part in pro-independence riots in Lhasa last month. Three protesters were...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | Mar 14, 2008
Posted by Josh Rudolph | Jan 26, 2015
In 2012, China became the world’s largest source of overseas students, and the number of...
Read MorePosted by Anne Henochowicz | Jun 19, 2012
Most foreigners, with some notable exceptions, will be allowed back in Tibet starting tomorrow....
Read MorePosted by Scott Greene | May 31, 2012
Security forces in Lhasa have detained or expelled hundreds of residents and pilgrims, according to a local source, after two monks reportedly set themselves on fire outside the Jokhang Temple on Sunday in the most serious...
Read MorePosted by Liu Yong | Jul 31, 2009
From Reuters: China’s central and regional propaganda offices have concluded that their strategy of media openness following ethnic riots in the far western city of Urumqi was a success, the Xinhua news agency said on...
Read MorePosted by dwang | Nov 27, 2008
Shortly after postponing a summit with the European Union in protest over French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s plans to meet with the Dalai Lama, a Chinese official announced through state media that over 1,000 people...
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