Reviews
3 May, 2008
Exhibition testimony to progress in Tibet/XiZang
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Huang Guangxue, vice-director of the National State Nationalities Affairs Commission in the 1980s, still remembers his first visit to Tibet in 1954. Huang and his colleagues were on a State Council mission to assess the situation in the region.
The young man, who grew up in the countryside, was struck by the poverty of the Tibetans.
In [...]
2 May, 2008
Listen to the other side of Tibet issue
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[Dori Jones Yang of Seattle is a writer who specializes in China; dorijonesyang.com]
When I happily announced to my Chinese husband that I obtained a coveted ticket to hear the Dalai Lama, he frowned. To him, the Dalai Lama is a divisive political leader, not a compassionate holy man.
These days, I feel caught between widespread U.S. [...]
