Japhet Weeks

Japhet Weeks is a graduate student in Asian Studies and Journalism at UC Berkeley.

Foreign Correspondents Blog the Quake

Posted by | May 12, 2008

Here are a few thoughts on the recent Wenchuan earthquake from the blogs of various foreign correspondents. Bill Powell at Time magazine’s China blog wonders if the earthquake caused any damage to the Three Gorges Dam...

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Olympic Flame Reaches Mount Everest Peak

Posted by | May 7, 2008

Chinese climbers, including Han and ethnic Tibetans, summited Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, with an Olympic flame. From AP via the New York Times: Live television footage showed a Chinese mountaineering team...

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The Smiling Spirit of Tibet

Posted by | May 7, 2008

Pico Iyer, who has written a new book on the Dalai Lama, The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, has a long profile piece of the exiled Tibetan leader in last weekend’s Financial Times: Last...

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Is Beijing Softening on Tibet?

Posted by | May 6, 2008

In Time magazine, Simon Elegant examines the changing relationship between Beijing and Tibet’s exiled leader, the Dalai Lama: Monday yielded one clear clue when Chinese media carried stories on the meeting the previous day...

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