These updates of recent events in Tibet and Tibetan areas of China have been posted on Woeser’s blog. They have been provided by sources inside China and have not been independently verified. For previous updates see here....
Read MoreThe following information was posted on the Beijing-based Tibetan writer Woeser’s blog (hosted outside of China): March 10th 500 monks from Drepong Monastery joined the peaceful demonstration. They were beaten and targeted...
Read MoreHoward French reposted some of the text of a New York Review of Books article from December 19, 2007: Wang Lixiong, who is one of the very few Chinese intellectuals to have met the Dalai Lama, told me that Tibetans have no faith...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Dozens of students held a sit-down protest at a university for ethnic minorities in Beijing on Monday, bringing pro-Tibetan demonstrations to the sensitive capital for the first time. … The protest in the...
Read MoreUpdate to previous post, March 18, 2008 (to be updated throughout the day): According to a Tibet official, 100 people have turned themselves into police after riots rocked the region’s capital of Lhasa. Reuters reports:...
Read MoreUpdate, March 17, 2008: The deadline for Tibetan protesters to surrender to Chinese police has passed, reports the BBC. The Times (London) is reporting that the Chinese army paraded dozens of handcuffed prisoners, their heads...
Read MoreUPDATE (March 16): The Economist has an eyewitness account from their correspondent in Lhasa: After hours of rioting on March 14th, a ring of troops was deployed around the large Tibetan quarter during the night. The next day...
Read MoreUpdate (March 16): The Guardian is reporting from Xining, Qinghai, that protests have spread in Sichuan and Qinghai provinces: In Aba county, Sichuan province, protesters attacked a police station with petrol bombs and fought...
Read MoreFrom Letters from China blog: The photographs were taken by Woeser (ÂîØËâ≤)’s father, a Tibetan People’s Liberation Army’s officer: The Red Guards who damaged the Jokhang Temple. Most of them were the students of Lhasa Secondary School. There was a portrait of Mao Zedong. The banner reads: “Completely destroy the old world! We shall be […]
Read MoreThe New Yorker magazine has a lengthy feature piece by Indian writer Pankaj Mishra about the railroad to Tibet, which he took from Beijing to Lhasa to investigate what impact the train would have on Tibetan culture and society. The article includes an interview with Tibetan writer and blogger Woeser. Unfortunately only an abstract of […]
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