Social Commentary

[ 2010/2/5 23:44:00 | By: joice] See the original article in Chinese A few days ago, I heard a friend of mine had found a Han Chinese girlfriend. At that time no one cared very much, but recently, I found there were many resentful remarks about him within our own circle..

By Laozangmin (Old Tibetan) See the original article in Chinese Group photo of retired cadres and Aku Tenba (from the left: Drolma gyab, Dorje, Tseden, Youla, Dorje Tsering, Louba, Geri, Dorjetar, Guoba) It is difficult to drive through Guomai pass’ wall of fog (“Gu..

By Laozangmin (Old Tibetan) See the original article in Chinese Drolma, in charge of a beauty parlor, is in a thirty-square-meter building facing the street. From her eyes above the bridge of her nose and clear, white skin, she doesn’t look like a local (the local wea..

By Karze ba (See the original article in Tibetan) In 1995 the then vice director of the education department, Ling-la, came to our school. He pointed at the eight auspicious symbols painted above the door. “These are religious designs”, he said, scolding the princip..

By Tri Sempa (See the original article in Tibetan) The relocation of the inhabitants of the Ma-dri-dzasum source region (the sources of the Huanghe, Yangtse and Mekong rivers) is about protecting the environment, for which the state has allocated a great deal of fundin..

Increasing numbers of Chinese tourists are going to Tibet to experience the ‘exotic’ culture that the Chinese Communist Party once described as backwards. On the one hand, some Tibetans view this development favorably, believing that the Chinese have acknowledged an..

This opinion piece written by mgo log kun dga’ tshangs dbyangs was posted on the website: http://www.tibettl.com/luntan/text/04/2007031207.htm. It was submitted by an anonymous translator on April 12, 2007. If there are no seeds of change, there cannot be successf..