The Cultural Revolution in Tibet: A Photographic Record. By LUO SILING

In 1999, the Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser came across Wang Lixiong’s book “Sky Burial: The Fate of Tibet.” On finishing it, she sent Mr. Wang photographs taken by her father, who was with the People’s Liberation Army when it entered Tibet in the 1950s and documented the early years of the Cultural Revolution in Lhasa in the 1960s.… Read More The Cultural Revolution in Tibet: A Photographic Record. By LUO SILING

14th August 2022 Dilip

10 MARCH: THE STORY OF AN UPRISING

On March 10th, 1959, hundreds of thousands of Tibetans had banded together around the Norbulingka (the summer palace of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, in Lhasa) to revolt, in defiance of the Chinese invasion, a decade earlier. This peaceful protest was violently crushed by the Chinese. China’s invasion of Tibet began a decade before the Uprising… Read More 10 MARCH: THE STORY OF AN UPRISING

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The Cultural Revolution in Tibet: A Photographic Record. By LUO SILING

10 MARCH: THE STORY OF AN UPRISING