A Newsweek article discusses how Chinese living outside of China can be just as nationalistic as their mainland counterparts, in part due to the internet: Charles Zhang . . . says the anti-Western backlash that erupted in China...
Read MoreFrom The Chinabeat blog: Exactly one month before the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games, all attention seems to be focused on those magic sixteen days, from August 8 through August 24. It is surprising, however, how rarely...
Read MoreDr Thomas Bartlett of Australia’s La Trobe University wrote a pointed and compelling response to Xiong Peiyun’s (熊培云) article “China’s Nationalism, and How Not to Deal with It,” posted yesterday on CDT....
Read MoreAn interesting analytical commentary on China’s latest wave of (ultra-)nationalism, and how the West lessons from dealing with Germany’s in 1930s. Translated by CDT from Southern Breeze magazine, via sina.com: [The...
Read MoreHere is an assessment of the Tibet situation by Zhang Boshu (张博树) of the CASS Philosophy Institute in Beijing, translated for CDT by a reader who wishes to remain anonymous: Zhang was born in Beijing in 1955. He received an MA...
Read MorePico Iyer, who has written a new book on the Dalai Lama, The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, has a long profile piece of the exiled Tibetan leader in last weekend’s Financial Times: Last...
Read MoreLingxi Kong (孔灵犀) is a fourth year student majoring in Greek and Latin at Columbia University. He met with the Dalai Lama on April 24, 2008, and wrote an essay recounting the meeting. The Chinese version has spread widely on the...
Read MoreThe following blog post is published on the blog of a Tibetan living in China. The article suggests educational and cultural policies, including raising the status of the Tibetan language, that the Chinese government should...
Read MoreThese updates of recent events in Tibet and Tibetan areas of China have been posted on Woeser’s blog (Chinese). They have been provided by sources inside China and have not been independently verified. April 27 Press...
Read MoreThe following blog post was signed as written by “a student from the Central University of Nationalities”. Translated by CDT: I’ve wanted to write something for a while in the wake of the latest developments in...
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