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Mongolia and China: History, Rage, and Reincarnation
Last month, the Dalai Lama traveled to Mongolia, a country with long religious and cultural ties...
Beijing Protests Dalai Lama’s Meeting With Slovak Pres
Currently on a tour of Europe, the Dalai Lama had lunch on Sunday with Slovakian president Andrej...
Troubled Times: Voices of Tibetan Refugees
In 2010, Tel Aviv-based Chinese writer Tang Danhong and Tibetan writer Sangjey Kep traveled to...
Social Cohesion by Myth and Marriage in Western China
With deep-seated ethnic tensions on prominent display in China’s far west, Andrew Jacobs...
After Winding Odyssey, Tibetan Texts Find Home
An American scholar of Tibet has collected thousands of Tibetan language books and donated them to...
VOA on Tibet: ‘Fire in the Land of Snow’
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...
China’s Tibetan Theme Park
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...
Woeser: Who Are the Real “Orientalists”?
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...
Woeser: Replaying the Film “Serf” Won’t Brainwash Anyone!
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...
The Dalai Lama’s ‘Deception’: Why a Seventeenth-Century Decree Matters to Beijing
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,...
China Seizes On a Dark Chapter for Tibet
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...
Elliot Sperling: Tibet as ‘Hell on Earth’
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,...
The Heights Traveled to Subdue Tibet
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...
Dialogue on Tibet: Past, Present and Future
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...
China to Mark Defeat of Tibet Uprising
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...
Elliot Sperling: Don’t Know Much About Tibetan History
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...
New Museum Offers the Official Line on Tibet
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...
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