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    Unbiased perspectives on China and Tibet from a student of Chinese culture: From a review: "i'd say this truly is a little chasm... The chasm in thinking between Dharamsala, India, the base for the Tibetan government-in-exile, and Beijing, is evident in statements made recently by... more

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  • Rated by gavinski on Mar 21 2008, 9:13pm

    Unbiased perspectives on China and Tibet from a student of Chinese culture: From a review: "i'd say this truly is a little chasm... The chasm in thinking between Dharamsala, India, the base for the Tibetan government-in-exile, and Beijing, is evident in statements made recently by both sides. On Open Democracy, Gabriel Lafitte, advisor to the government-in-exile, writes: What do Tibetans find so objectionable about today's China? Why is it that Tibetans and Chinese, neighbours for thousands of years, cannot get on? Media coverage focuses on immediate causes, but there is a deeper story. The experience of working with Tibetans for thirty years, and of seeing Chinese development projects in Tibet for myself (as well as of having been briefly imprisoned for it), I can share what my Tibetan friends tell me. Contemporary Chinese capitalist modernity is as problematic for Tibetans as past state violence and repression. China today pours money - overwhelmingly state money - into Tibet: into railways, highways, tourist infrastructure and a top-heavy administrative elite. Glass towers, shopping-malls, enormous brothels masquerading as discos, towering offices, now dominate urban Tibetan skylines which only twenty years ago were a sacred landscape of prayer flags, temples and meditation. On the face of it, that's progress. If Lhasa now looks like any Chinese boomtown, that's just the price of modernity - or so many outsiders say. But Tibetans find themselves excluded from the material benefits of modernity, watching powerlessly as gangs of non-Tibetan immigrants take over even the unskilled jobs on construction sites and in driving taxis. Tibetans remain poor, socially excluded, on the margins of a state-funded construction boom that reduces them to a minority meant to smile for the tourist cameras as they try to focus on their spiritual pilgrimage. While Zhang Qingli, the Communist Party secretary of the Tibetan Autonomous Region, was quoted in yesterday's New York Times as saying: "The Communist Party is like the parent to the Tibetan people, and it is always considerate about what the children need," Mr. Zhang said last year. He later added: "The Central Party Committee is the real Buddha for Tibetans.""

  • Rated by LegacyReset on Nov 24 2007, 12:39pm

    A great many thanks for sharing your wonderful resources with us.

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    For language, pictures, China and more. Wonderful links on this stumbler's pages. Thumbs up!

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    Another stumbler I will return to.

  • Rated by jasonstone on Mar 07 2006, 7:08pm

    atongchan's is the place for unique, cool sites and great Chinese culture pages. Thanks for the great Stumbles!

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  • Rated by gpc on Feb 22 2006, 7:18pm

    Most comprehensive collection on Asia that I've seen on SU; thanks for the work, atongchan.