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Read MoreToday marks 50 years since the failed uprising in Tibet which led to the Dalai Lama fleeing to India, where he has lived ever since. AP reports on security measures that are assuring no protests will be tolerated in the region...
Read MoreJane Macartney of Times Online profiles Tibetan blogger and strong critic of China, Tsering Woeser: Catching up with Tibet’s most popular blogger isn’t simple. Tsering Woeser is under constant surveillance, so we...
Read MoreThis is a continuation of the series on CDT relating to relevant China issues in 2008. This article deals with Chinese Nationalism and Internet Culture. Please see also previous posts on the Developing World. Chinese nationalism...
Read MoreIn relation to a previous article on CDT, Chen Daojun (陈道军), the journalist/activist sentenced to three years in prison for three articles posted online, follows a growing trend of bloggers and other citizens being arrested for...
Read MoreFrom Christian Science Monitor: Woeser’s fans have plenty of reasons to worry that she’ll be thrown in jail soon. The famed Tibetan writer has sued the Chinese government. She’s investigating the March uprising...
Read MoreChinese intellectual Wang Lixiong posted an essay on his wife Woeser’s blog in which he predicts that an uprising in Tibet following the Dalai Lama’s death will be even larger in scale than the protests in Lhasa this...
Read MoreWritten by Dan Southerland, Executive Editor of Radio Free Asia (RFA), from RFA: “Most of all I wish you courage,” the American poet Pam Brown wrote to her daughter decades ago. “That usually takes care of everything else.”...
Read More[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...
Read MoreFrom AP: The poet Woeser has long been a rarity — a Tibetan living in China who doesn’t flinch from publicly criticizing the Chinese government. Now the activist is taking another unusual step. After being repeatedly...
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