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…
Cultural Politics… Plateau Rouge: On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet (2) 7 Nov 20119 Nov 2011 A few weeks ago, I finally received my copy of the new French translation of Tibetan writer Woeser’s text of oral histories on the Cultural Revolution in Tibet. This past…
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,…
Cultural Politics… Tibet on the Horizon 13 Jul 2011 Chamdo in Paris Tonight, wandering north toward the Rue Oberkampf in search of my little home for the week in Belleville (Parisian Chinatown), I ran across a Tibetan restaurant known…
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…
China… High Altitude Social Isolation Tense Political Situation = Dream Job for Foreign Aid Worker in Tibet 6 May 2011 In the best cases, one of the unheralded side benefits of being a professor involves the holding of office hours, the offering of an open door. This morning, the open…
China… On the Events in Aba: Sources 23 Apr 2011 Another Tibet-themed guest post by Kristiana Henderson, Pacific Lutheran University While I was writing this larger piece about the construction of dams in the Tibet Autonomous Region, I was simultaneously…
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…
