Tibet The Dalai Lama in Europe 21 Aug 201720 Aug 2017 The following cohesive work ended up on the cutting-room floor just prior to the publication of my essay “Dalai Lama struggles to retain influence over troubled Tibet,” The Irish Times (Dublin),…
China… On Reincarnation 13 Mar 2015 As everyone knows, the Chinese Communist Party is fully committed to reincarnating itself as the Qing dynasty, but with more aircraft carriers and a Communist Dalai Lama who tells choking…
Tibet Dalai Lama in Northern Ireland: Notes on the Situation in Tibet [Updated] 18 Apr 201326 Dec 2015 This essay was originally published as "Dalai Lama struggles to retain influence over troubled Tibet," The Irish Times (Dublin), April 22, 2012, p. 14. Northern Ireland is a long way from…
Chinese communist party… The Dalai Lama in Toulouse: On Soft Power, Le Pen, and Unfallen Shoes 4 Sep 2011 Back in July, while on a late-night stroll through the 5th Arrdondisment looking for Rue Oberkampf, I chanced upon an announcement of the Dalai Lama's mid-August trip to Toulouse, France,…
American Foreign Policy… 33 Questions on The History of Modern Tibet 6 Jun 20116 Jun 2011 Here on Sinologistical Violoncellist, the subject of Tibet seems to be coming up with greater frequency, as it ought to. After all, the Dalai Lama remains floating through the universe…
Tibet… Dalai Lama in Long Beach, California 4 May 20114 May 2011 In the orbit of the greater Los Angeles area, Long Beach serves a peculiar, often gritty, and vital function. A few months ago I experienced enlightenment in Long Beach thanks…
China… Archival Scraps — Lhasa, October 2010 18 Apr 2011 A fragment of an unfinished op-ed I wrote in the Tibet Autonomous Region last fall: As October advances, leaves scatter into Lhasa streets full of pilgrims weaving through the occasional…
China… Melodious Plateau: Politics and Song at Losar (The Tibetan New Year) 19 Mar 201119 Mar 2011 [This is a guest post by Kristiana Henderson of Pacific Lutheran University, based upon research begun in Tibet in October 2010 and continued for the duration of that fall in…
Cello… No Silence for the Unsubjugated: Woeser in the Parisian Press 17 Jan 201120 Jan 2011 Han ideograms of self-praise tattoo the walls of the echo chamber of the PRC; millions of yuan are tilted downward as if out of dump trucks, rushing into the cultural…
China… Nobel Prize Awarded to Liu Xiaobo: A Critique of New York Times Coverage 9 Oct 201011 Oct 2010 Surely you all have read Edward Wong's report in the New York Times about the Nobel Prize award to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. The full text of the article is…
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