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INEVITABLE, INTRACTABLE, INCURABLE HUMAN MISERY

TIBET AS A LAND OF INEVITABLE, INTRACTABLE, INCURABLE HUMAN MISERY Blog one of four on POVERTY, IMMISERISATION and DESTITUTION in TIBET Note: these blogs are adorned by classic Tibetan proverbs on poverty and wealth.[1] “The CPC Central Committee has drawn up a plan for poverty elimination. By 2020 all impoverished people in rural areas will […]

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CONTIGUOUS TIBETAN DESTITUTION

MAPPING DESTITUTION ONTO THE GEO-BODY OF TIBET Blog two of four on POVERTY, IMMISERISATION and DESTITUTION in TIBET   China’s official designation of the whole of the Tibetan Plateau as inevitably and incurably poor is grounded in a line across the map of China drawn by a geographer in 1935, still hailed today as a […]