In recent weeks, Tibet-focused media outlets have reported that Tsewang Norbu, a popular young singer, died after self-immolating in front of the Potala Palace in Lhasa. CDT was unable to independently confirm the reports and...
Minority languages in China are increasingly under threat. Over the past week, the language learning app Talkmate and the online video streaming site Bilibili appeared to remove Tibetan and Uyghur languages from their platforms...
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...
Five years after his arrest on charges of inciting separatism, Tashi Wangchuk, an advocate for Tibetan-language education, has been released from prison. He attempted to use legal avenues to reinstitute Tibetan-language...
The Associated Press’ Huizhong Wu reports that at least 23 people have been detained following protests across Inner Mongolia against recently announced language education reforms. The new policies would gradually replace...
In an interview with Himal Southasian, University of British Columbia historian Tsering Shakya...
Tibetan entrepreneur and language education activist Tashi Wangchuk was detained in January 2016,...
Last week, Tibetan activist Tashi Wangchuk was tried in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture,...
Tibetan entrepreneur and language education advocate Tashi Wangchuk was detained in January 2016...
Since 2009, over 140 Tibetans have self-immolated in protest as authorities have tightened...
Tibetan entrepreneur and language education advocate Tashi Wangchuk, who was earlier this month...
The New York Times’ Edward Wong reports on the erosion of Tibetan language by official...
While China is often accused of stoking ethnic tensions by marginalizing minority languages, the...
At his Culturally Curious blog, Matt Adler talks to Columbia University’s Robert Barnett...
The South China Morning Post reports that, amid an ongoing drive to promote the use of...
Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser was born in Lhasa, but attended high school and university in...
Radio Free Asia reports that a Tibetan singer was arrested last weekend after a concert in Aba...
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...
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