A year ago February, authorities in the highly restrictive Tibet Autonomous Region of China picked up Tsering Dorje, who lived in a village near Mt. Everest. They held him for a month in what they ...
At his Culturally Curious blog, Matt Adler talks to Columbia University’s Robert Barnett about the complexities of Tibetan language and its situation in China. Both dialects and policies, Barnett ...
Three days after he was released from prison in December, a Tibetan village leader named Gonpo Namgyal died. As his body was ...
China’s ban on Tibetan language classes has come full circle after a new policy bars children from taking even informal lessons outside of school. “No individual or organization is allowed to hold ...
Tibet’s future remains imperiled by the Chinese government’s continued efforts to sever the generational links that sustain Tibetan culture. Recent reports have analyzed how this dynamic plays out in ...
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Wang Yang, chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), center, waves as he arrives in Lhasa to attend the ceremony to ...
The People's Republic of China seized control of Tibet in 1950 in what its leaders termed the "peaceful liberation" of a theocracy. Generations of Tibetans in exile continue to call it an invasion and ...
This World Radio Day, 13 February 2026, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) warns that China’s state-owned broadcaster China National Radio (CNR) has rapidly expanded its Tibetan-language programming, ...
A year ago February, authorities in the highly restrictive Tibet Autonomous Region of China picked up Tsering Dorje, who lived in a village near Mt. Everest. They held him for a month in what they ...