PROVINCIAL MINDS What the global diaspora of Tibetans seldom manage to do is to look at Tibet thru Chinese eyes, not only in Beijing’s eyes but also from the perspective of Lanzhou, Chengdu, Xining and Lhasa. Things look very different if these provincial capitals are the starting point. Lhasa is showered with central money, whatever […]
URBAN TIBET UNDER XI JINPING’S NEW “MASS LINE” Blog 1 of 2 on ideologies and technologies of silencing Tibetans In a secret internal directive to all 80 million members of the Chinese Communist Party, the CCP has made explicit its many fears and siege mentality. The central command is to NOT SPEAK of […]
HOW TO LIVE UNDER LOCKDOWN: URBAN TIBET IN CHINA’S HI-TECH GRID SYSTEM OF SURVEILLANCE AND BEHAVIOURAL COMPLIANCE Blog 2 0f 2 China’s agenda in Tibet explicitly requires Tibetans to state publicly, on the record, their gratefulness to the Chinese Communist Party, and all it has done for Tibet. These public statements of compliance with […]
Spoiling Tibet: China and Resource Nationalism on the Roof of the World by Gabriel Lafitte available now from Zed Books reviewed by Kerry Brown A few years ago, I was seated next to a professor of geology at Oxford University. We broached the subject of China’s resource assets. “China has very little that is easily exploitable,” he said. I asked about […]