Young Tibetans Self-immolate in Protest
Voice of America reports that a 22-year-old Tibetan man named Drugkho self-immolated in Sichuan on...
Tibet coverage
“Almost Total Suppression of Information” After Tibet Fire
Lhasa’s Jokhang temple, a sacred Tibetan Buddhist site dating back in parts to the seventh...
63-year-old Tibetan Monk Self-immolates in Sichuan
Citing Tibetan sources, Radio Free Asia reports that a 63-year-old Tibetan monk named Tenga has...
Tibetan Blogger Jailed for “Inciting Separatism”
Tibetan writer and blogger Druklo has been sentenced to three years in prison by a court in...
Pelosi Voices Support for Dalai Lama on China Visit
While in China last week, U.S. House Minority Leader and longtime critic of Beijing’s human...
Tibetans Openly Celebrate Dalai Lama’s 80th Year
The Tibetan Review reports that thousands of Tibetans in the province of Sichuan defied government...
Tibetan Filmmaker Released from Prison
Imprisoned Tibetan filmmaker and activist Dhondup Wangchen has been released from jail six years...
2014: 10 China Stories On The Horizon
At The New Yorker, former China correspondent Evan Osnos predicts next year’s top ten China...
Q&A With ‘Tibet, The Last Cry’ Photographer
Photographer Laurent Zyblerman and writer Eric Meyer were two of the first Western journalists...
Two Self-Immolations in Lhasa, City’s First (Updated)
Two unidentified Tibetan monks reportedly set fire to themselves in front of Lhasa’s Jokhang Temple on Sunday. From Radio Free Asia: “The security forces arrived immediately and put out the fire and all the tourists in the area...
French Newspaper Takes Chinese Line on Tibet?
State news site Tibet.cn celebrates a French newspaper’s departure from the Western “double standards”, “biased reports” and “Cold War mentality” often lamented by Chinese officials,...
“Tibetans And Han Are One Family”
This photograph (via CDT Chinese) was taken in 2010 in Kangding city, in the Ganzi/Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of western Sichuan. The poster’s comment: “As I was out for a stroll, I happened to see a...
Dalai Lama Urges Restraint in Tibet Monastery Crisis
Recent standoff between Chinese military forces and Tibetan monks in Ngaba County in Sichuan has been escalating over the past month. The Dalai Lama has now spoken out, hoping Tibetan protesters will show greater restraint and...
Tibetans Sentenced to Death
Two Tibetans were sentenced to death and two to death with a two-year reprieve for their role in the unrest in Lhasa last March. From the Guardian: According to the Xinhua news agency, Lobsang Gyaltsen will be executed for arson...
China Marks “Emancipation” of Tibet With New Holiday
To recognize the 50th anniversary of the PRC’s rule of Tibet and the Dalai Lama’s exile, China has declared March 28th to be a holiday that marks Tibetan emancipation. From Jason Subler of Reuters: China marked its...
David Bandurski: As China Shouts its Line on Tibet, Is Anybody Listening?
For the China Media Project, David Bandurski looks at coverage of Tibet in the Chinese media, starting from a recent headline carried by all the major official media in recent days: “Treasuring the fruits of democratic...
CDT Interview Series: Chinese Journalists Talk About the Olympics, Tibet, and Cross-Cultural Understanding (4)
[Editor’s Note: Since March, a series of events including unrest in Lhasa and protests following the Olympic torch relay, have brought to the surface a clash between nationalist elements of the Chinese public and...
CDT Interview Series: Chinese Journalists Talk About the Olympics, Tibet, and Cross-Cultural Understanding (3)
[Editor’s Note: Since March, a series of events including unrest in Lhasa and protests following the Olympic torch relay, have brought to the surface a clash between nationalist elements of the Chinese public and...
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