It’s only two weeks away
It’s that time of year again. How will you be celebrating Serf Emancipation Day? I find it kind of droll that on the big day I’ll be in the Long Beach Opera House watching this. An eerie coincidence....
View ArticleNew photocopy rules for Tibetans
I know, their lives are better, their roads are better, their schools are better, they get more funding than any other minority and they’re grateful the shackles of serfdom have been lifted. Still, no...
View ArticleMedia bias against China
I do hope everyone who points approvingly to Anticnn and insists the US media are hopelessly biased against China gets to listen to this superb podcast over at Popup Chinese. It touches on many...
View Article“Patriotic re-education” in Tibet
A once militant Tibetan monk named Norgye stops worrying and learns to love the CCP. Norgye demonstrated with other monks in 2008 shouting “Tibet is not free!” Now, after some struggle sessions, he...
View ArticlePacifying Tibet
One person’s aid is another’s oppression. Or so it always seems in Tibet, where the CCP is striving, as usual, to create harmony through relatively lavish investment. They come by new high-altitude...
View ArticleWhy won’t they love and appreciate us?
A NY Times reporter describes his state-run tour of Tibet (and state-run is the only type of tour a foreign journalist is going to get in Tibet): One warm morning on the campus of Tibet University, a...
View ArticleTibet – Shangri-La on steroids
Somehow I missed this priceless column in The Global Times (and I thank this blogger for pointing it out). This extraordinary travelogue tripe article by the former UN ambassador to Bolivia. After...
View ArticleTibet, one big bundle of joy
From today’s Global Times. The country’s Tibetan-populated regions are in a party mood as the Tibetan New Year, or Losar, falls today, striking a stark contrast with the call by the “Tibetan government...
View ArticleSoft Power
I’ve already posted about how much I love this new blog. Go now and read their ominously hilarious post about how China manages to shoot itself in the foot whenever it comes to its neverending quest...
View ArticleTibetans, second-class citizens?
Yes, I know all about the schools, the hospitals, the highways and the end of serfdom. I know about improvements in the quality of life and all the economic benefits. I know how Chinese people see...
View ArticleSelf-immolating Tibetans
I was delighted to see that longtime commenter Kevin Carrico has translated into English Tsering Woeser’s book Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule, and a generous sample has been...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....