Some were angered by the railway project, and by those roads named “Beijing Road,” “Jiangsu Road,” “Sichuan-Tibet road,” but others accept them happily. Some say that you (Han Chinese ...
In the Dalai Lama’s new memoir, Voice for the Voiceless, the spiritual leader directly addresses Tibet’s struggle for ...
On March 17, the Dalai Lama fled, trekking through treacherous Himalayan terrain, narrowly avoiding Chinese patrols. After ...
In the thin air of Tibet's sprawling plateau, a quiet battle rages — not fought with weapons or armies, but with language, ...
After nearly 70 years of repressive Chinese state rule, government policies that seek to forcibly assimilate non-Han peoples ...
There are some 60 languages spoken on the Tibetan Plateau. But harsh Chinese policies mean many minority languages may not be passed down to future generations.
In his new book, the Dalai Lama has said that his successor will be born in a free country outside of Chinese control ...
If Tibetans stop speaking Manegacha and other minority languages, this will contribute to the Chinese government’s efforts to ...
Since 2009, at least 159 Tibetans have resorted to self-immolation, a desperate act of protest against China’s severe ...
Tibetan children watch their parents shout slogans during a protest to commemorate the 1959 uprising in Tibet against the ...
Government policy forces all Tibetans to learn and use Mandarin Chinese ... and even violence from the dominant Han ethnic group. Meanwhile, support for Tibetan language education has slowly ...