Tibetan Cultures Pressured From Within and Without
Since 2009, over 140 Tibetans have self-immolated in protest as authorities have tightened...
nomads
China Fences In Its Nomads, and an Ancient Life Withers
For the New York Times, Andrew Jacobs looks at the consequences of the Chinese government’s...
Heavy Costs of Growth in Inner Mongolia
Martin Patience at BBC News reports that a resource boom in Inner Mongolia has brought pollution,...
Rural Desperation Mounts Amid Urbanization
Amid a renewed commitment to urbanization from China’s new leadership, a recent survey by...
A Mongolian Shaman in Atheist China
The Guardian’s Jonathan Kaiman visits a herder-turned-shaman who acts as a “short...
Tibet: Life on the Climate Front Line
At The Financial Times, Leslie Hook writes that Chinese authorities have misdiagnosed the causes...
China Reaffirms “Absolute Fight” Against Dalai Lama
An article by a Central Party School scholar and reports of experimental concessions in some Tibetan areas have recently given rise to hopes that China might adopt a softer line towards the Dalai Lama. But after police allegedly...
Dislocation and Unrest in China’s West
Following the release last week of a Human Rights Watch report on relocation and resettlement in Tibet, High Peaks Pure Earth translates Tibetan writer Woeser’s description of a return visit to one uprooted community: I...
HRW: End Involuntary Resettlement of Tibetans
Tantalizing signs have recently emerged of possible change in China’s Tibet policy: arguments by a Central Party School scholar, a visit to Tibet this week by U.S. ambassador Gary Locke, and reports that strictly religious...
Landslide Draws Attention to Toll of Mining on Tibet
Rescue work has resumed at the site of a disaster-struck mine near Lhasa after being suspended on Monday due to the risk of further landslides. The bodies of 59 of the 83 workers buried last Friday have now been recovered. China...
Three Self-Immolations Amid Crackdown, Debate
Three Tibetan self-immolations have taken place in recent days, according to exile media, amid vigorous discussion of the protests and a continued crackdown by Chinese authorities. From Dharamsala-based Phayul.com: Tsezung Kyab,...
Tibetan Nomad Self-Immolates in Qinghai
A Tibetan nomad died after setting fire to himself in Qinghai province. This is the latest case in a wave of similar protests that started in 2009 when a monk named Tapey self-immolated during the Tibetan New Year festival of...
China to Speed Up Clearing Nomads from Grasslands
Reuters reports: China’s Inner Mongolia region plans to speed up resettlement of nomads from their traditional grasslands to fixed homes in towns, as part of a conservation programme, a top official said on Thursday. The...
Traditions Fade As China Settles Nomads In Towns
From AP: Herding reindeer and hunting bears and boars in the forests on Siberia’s fringe was Gu Gejun’s life. Now his rifle has been confiscated, and the only reindeer he herds are in an urban tourist park. China has...
For China’s Nomads, Relocation Proves a Mixed Blessing
From Washington Post: Last year, local Communist Party officials relocated a 64-year-old Tibetan cattle and sheepherder named Lhabu to a newly created town called “Nomads’ New Village,” about seven hours south...
China nomads on energy’s cutting edge – Lenora Chu
From the Christian Science Monitor: Gulinar Sitkan’s contribution to China’s pollution problem is four tons of coal a year. It forms heaping black piles outside the shepherd’s log cabin in this mountainous village of China’s northwestern Xinjiang Province. Coal is cheap and readily available, and China burns nearly 2 billion tons a year for energy […]
China’s Nomads Trade Up for an Easier Ride on the Range – Jim Yardley
From the New York Times: At the Doulong Store, the musty shelves are stocked with the necessities for Tibetan nomads. There are kettles for yak butter tea and bolts of colorful fabric for traditional Tibetan robes and clothing. A nomad affluent enough to use a light bulb in his tent can buy an electric generator. […]
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