This is the full transcript, edited lightly for grammar and clarity, of an interview with Jeremy Brown, a historian at Simon Fraser University, on his book “June Fourth: The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of...
In China, 2021 has been a year for the history books or, more precisely, their revision. In March, the launch of a hotline to report “historical nihilism” presaged a broader campaign against challenges to the Party’s version of...
In Tibet, the Party is pushing a political education campaign to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the region’s annexation. This latest campaign comes amid a widespread “Sinicization” effort that critics claim has severely...
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Last month, the Dalai Lama traveled to Mongolia, a country with long religious and cultural ties...
Currently on a tour of Europe, the Dalai Lama had lunch on Sunday with Slovakian president Andrej...
In 2010, Tel Aviv-based Chinese writer Tang Danhong and Tibetan writer Sangjey Kep traveled to...
With deep-seated ethnic tensions on prominent display in China’s far west, Andrew Jacobs...
An American scholar of Tibet has collected thousands of Tibetan language books and donated them to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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, 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,...
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...
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...
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