XPost: hk.politics, soc.culture.china, soc.culture.indian
XPost: soc.culture.usa, talk.politics.tibet
Generations of Chinese have been taught that the Tibetan people are grateful to China
for having liberated them from “feudalism and serfdom,” and yet Tibetan protests,
including self-immolations, continue to erupt against Chinese rule. In “Tibet in Agony:
Lhasa 1959,’’ to be published in October by Harvard University Press, the Chinese-born
writer Jianglin Li explores the roots of Tibetan unrest in China’s occupation of Tibet in the
1950s, culminating in March 1959 with the People’s Liberation Army’s shelling of Lhasa
and the Dalai Lama’s flight to India. In an interview, she shared her findings.
Read more on:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/world/asia/china-tibet-lhasa-jianglin-li.html?_r=0
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