Website of the Envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
China Media Project Fellow, Column by Hu Shuli
[NOTE: In our recent piece on Wen Jiabao's Shenzhen speech, in which the Premier spoke about the need for political reform, we took issue with the idea that this was a radical departure of some kind, pointing out that Wen's remarks fall within a tradition of Party discourse [...]
Ellen Bork, The Wall Street Journal
Over the past few years, Beijing’s repressive policies have increasingly
alienated Tibetans. One indication was the March 2008 uprising and riots
across Tibet. Yet Beijing responded not by moderating its policies but by
intensifying repression-launching a "patriotic education" campaign and
targeting members of the educated elite, many of whom have long gotten along
with, and [...]
Stephen Vines, South China Morning Post / Op-ed
Why are authoritarian regimes so obsessed with the suppression of local languages, or dialects, as they generally prefer to describe them? The Soviet Union was ruthless in trying to obliterate the many languages that existed within its borders, Fascist Spain criminalised the use of the nation’s minority languages [...]
Zhang Wen at My1510.cn
The former information officer at the French embassy in China, Mr. Henuo (transliteration of name into Chinese) recently grouped me alongside Han Han, Xu Jinglei, Wang Xiaofeng and Hong Huang as the five most famous Chinese bloggers in a French magazine. This is somewhat embarrassing for me.
Strictly speaking, Wang Xiaofeng and I [...]
By Sreeram Chaulia, Asia Times Online
BEIJING - This year marks the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the People’s Republic of China and India, a momentous occasion that invites reflection on where the two Asian giants are heading in the much-touted “Asian century”.
Awareness that this bilateral relationship is critical to the current world order is [...]
By EMILY PARKER, International Herald Tribune
The Chinese-Canadian writer Denise Chong’s 1994 book “The Concubine’s Children,” a memoir of her maternal grandparents, won admiring reviews and spent more than a year and a half on The Globe and Mail’s best-seller list. But when her later book, “Egg on Mao,” came out in 2009, many people responded [...]