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by Josh Rudolph | Mar 21, 2018
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by Josh Rudolph | Dec 5, 2016
Last month, the Dalai Lama traveled to Mongolia, a country with long religious and cultural ties...
by Josh Rudolph | Oct 17, 2016
Currently on a tour of Europe, the Dalai Lama had lunch on Sunday with Slovakian president Andrej...
by Sophie Beach | Jun 30, 2016
In 2010, Tel Aviv-based Chinese writer Tang Danhong and Tibetan writer Sangjey Kep traveled to...
by Josh Rudolph | Aug 19, 2014
With deep-seated ethnic tensions on prominent display in China’s far west, Andrew Jacobs...
by Sophie Beach | Feb 16, 2014
An American scholar of Tibet has collected thousands of Tibetan language books and donated them to...
by Josh Rudolph | Jun 6, 2013
The U.S. government’s official external broadcaster Voice of America has been closely following the ongoing wave of protest by self-immolation against Beijing’s policies in Tibetan regions of China. During an...
by Sophie Beach | Sep 13, 2011
A theme park in Chengde presents Beijing’s version of its historical relationship with Tibet through an elaborate performance. In the New York Review of Books blog, Richard Bernstein reports on the park, its historical...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 8, 2011
In a blog post translated at High Peaks Pure Earth, Woeser takes Chinese scholars’ criticism of an orientalist Western “Shangri-La complex” regarding Tibet, and turns it around to face them. It is really...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 12, 2011
In a blog post translated by High Peaks Pure Earth, Tibetan poet and writer Woeser describes Chinese efforts to dominate accounts of Tibet’s history. The Chinese government proclaimed in January 2009 that a festival called...
by Sophie Beach | Apr 7, 2011
In the New York Review of Books, Tibet scholar Robert Barnett writes about the Dalai Lama’s recent announcement that he was retiring from his political position as head of the Tibetan government-in-exile, and explains why,...
by Sophie Beach | Aug 10, 2010
The New York Times revisits the history of the British in Gyantse, Tibet and looks at how the government is trying to shape the narrative: These days, Gyantse resembles other towns in central Tibet. Its dusty roads are lined...
by Sophie Beach | Mar 27, 2009
Elliot Sperling, professor at Indiana University, writes for the Far Eastern Economic Review about Chinese government propaganda about Tibet: There’s no doubt that Tibet’s traditional society was hierarchical and backwards,...
by Paulina Hartono | Mar 14, 2009
Edward Wong for the New York Times reports on the mysterious shroud that has been long-held over Tibet: Tibetans widely resent Chinese rule, and Chinese leaders fear that Tibetans could seize on this month, the 50th anniversary...
by Sophie Beach | Mar 13, 2009
While those at the polar ends of the Tibet debate may see it as a black and white issue, a few efforts have been made recently to show the complexity of the problems involved. China Pictorial, an official travel and photography...
by Sophie Beach | Jan 11, 2009
With the 50th anniversary of the failed Tibetan uprising approaching in March, and with memories of last year’s riots still fresh, Chinese leaders in Beijing have opted this year to mark the occasion by naming a...
by Xiao Qiang | Dec 1, 2008
Elliot Sperling writes the following OP-ED in the New York Times: For many Tibetans, the case for the historical independence of their land is unequivocal. They assert that Tibet has always been and by rights now ought to be an...
by Sophie Beach | Apr 17, 2008
A new museum in Beijing will offer the official view of Tibetan history – a source of much debate in the wake of unrest in the region. From the New York Times: History is often interpreted to meet the political objectives...