• Some recent history on Tibet by Chinese-born writer Jianglin Li.

    From Peter Terpstra@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 15 16:33:11 2016
    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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