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#freetibet #tibetchinaproblem #dalailama The 1959 Tibetan uprising or the 1959 Tibetan rebellion began on 10 March 1959, when a revolt erupted in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Area, which had been under the effective control of the People's Republic of China since the Seventeen Point Agreement was reached in 1951.[10] Armed conflict between Tibetan guerillas and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) had started in 1956 in the Kham and Amdo regions, which had been subjected to socialist reform. The guerrilla warfare later spread to other areas of Tibet and lasted through 1962.
The anniversary of the uprising is observed by Tibetan exiles as the ''Tibetan Uprising Day'' and Woman's Uprising Day. The anniversary of its end is officially celebrated in the Tibetan Autonomous Region as Serfs Emancipation Day.
Alexandra David-Néel: from Sikkim to Forbidden Tibet
Before 1923, Tibet was represented on the maps by a white spot. Alexandra David-Néel will be the first to draw this hidden face of the world. Alexandra David-Néel was the first Westerner to enter Lhasa, the forbidden city.
This achievement made her world famous. Through the picturesque and touching testimony of Marie-Madeleine Peyronnet, her last governess, who follows in her footsteps, live the story of this extraordinary explorer, who died at the age of 101, just after having her passport renewed.
Historical materials tell the truth: Tibet is part of China
==Tang Dynasty & Song Dynasty(618-1279)==
By the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the Tibetans and Hans had, through marriage between royal families and meetings leading to alliances, cemented political and kinship ties of unity and friendship and formed close economic and cultural relations, laying a solid foundation for the ultimate founding of a unified nation. In Lhasa the statue of the Tang Princess Wen Cheng, who married the Tubo tsampo, king of Tibet, in 641, is still enshrined and worshiped in the Potala Palace. The Tang-Tubo Alliance Monument marking the meeting for this purpose between Tang and Tubo erected in 823 still stands in the square in front of the Jokhang Monastery. The monument inscription reads in part, The two sovereigns, uncle and nephew, having come to agreement that their territories be united as one, have signed this alliance of great peace to last for eternity! May God and humanity bear witness thereto so that it may be praised from generation to generation.
==Yuan Dynasty(1271-1368)==
In the early 13th century, Genghis Khan established the Mongol Khanate in north China. The Mongol regime changed its title to Yuan in 1271 and unified the whole of China in 1279, establishing a central government, achieved great unification of various regions and races. Tibet became an administrative region directly under the central government. The Yuan emperor established the Xuanzheng Yuan or Ministry for the Spread of Governance to directly handle important affairs of the Tibet region. In Tibetan, local military and administrative organs were set up, which was under the Xuanzheng Yuan. It also had troops stationed in Tibet. The central government set up post stations which were linked up in a communication line extending from Tibet up to Dadu (Beijing), and also conducted censuses in Tibet, in 1268, 1287 and 1334.
==Ming Dynasty(1368-1644)==
In 1368 the Ming Dynasty replaced the Yuan Dynasty, and inherited the right to rule Tibet. The emperor conferred honorific titles on religious leaders of Tibet such as the prince of Dharma. The Dalai Lama and the Bainqen Lama are the two leading incarnation hierarchies of the Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism. The Gelug Sect rose during the Ming Dynasty, and the 3rd Dalai Lama was the abbot of one of the sect's monasteries. The central government of the Ming Dynasty showed him special favor by allowing him to pay tribute. In 1587 he was granted the title of Dorjichang or Vajradhara Dalai Lama.
==Qing Dynasty(1644-1911)==
When the Qing Dynasty replaced the Ming Dynasty in 1644, it further strengthened administration over Tibet. In 1653 and 1713, the Qing emperors granted honorific titles to the 5th Dalai Lama and the 5th Bainqen Lama, henceforth officially establishing the titles of the Dalai Lama and the Bainqen Erdeni and their political and religious status in Tibet. In 1719, Qing government troops were sent into Tibet to dispel the Zungar forces, and set out to reform Tibet's administrative system. The emperor made a young Living Buddha of the Xikang area the 7th Dalai Lama and had him escorted into Tibet, and appointed four Tibetan officials to handle Tibet's political affairs. From 1727, high commissioners were stationed in Tibet to supervise local administration on behalf of the central authorities. In order to perfect Tibet's administrative organizations, the Qing Dynasty on many occasions enacted regulations to rectify and reform old systems and establish new ones. The Authorized Regulations for the Better Governing of Tibet, promulgated in 1793, casted to a Golden Book, had 29 articles.
==Republic of China(1912-49)==
In 1911 revolution took place and establishing the Republic of China. In the republic's first constitution, it was clearly stipulated that Tibet was a part of the territory of the Republic of China. When the Chinese Kuomintang formed the national government in 1927 and held the national assembly in 1931, both the 13th Dalai Lama and the 9th Bainqen Erdeni sent representatives to participate. The Tibetan local government and the Bainqen's administrative body, Kampus Assembly, also sent representatives to the national assembly in 1946.
==People's Republic of China(1949 - )==
The People's Republic of China was founded in 1949. In 1950 however, the then Tibetan local government rejected the call for negotiation from the central government, and selected armed resistance. Under such circumstances, the central government ordered the People's Liberation Army to enter Tibet. After that the central government once again urged the Tibetan local government to send delegates to Beijing for negotiations. The 14th Dalai Lama accepted the proposal. In February 1951, the Dalai Lama appointed his delegates and sent them to Beijing for the negotiations.
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The True Face Of The Dalai Lama
by Kalovski at 4-2-8
[Part.1]
This is a backgrounder of the struggle in Tibet and how the US has been building up Dalai Lama
to pursue their ideological struggle. In the US many uninformed people had been awed by his
philosophy on peace and non-violence. This article will bare facts to the real color and
intent of the Lama, why the US had given him a Nobel Prize and many more. - Kalovski Itim, The
True Story of Maoist Revolution in Tibet, When the Dalai Lamas Ruled: Hell on Earth
Revolutionary Worker #944, February 15, 1998
Hard Climate, Heartless Society
Tibet is one of the most remote places in the world. It is centered on a high mountain plateau
deep in the heart of Asia. It is cut off from South Asia by the Himalayas, the highest mountains
in the world. Countless river gorges and at least six different mountain ranges carve this
region into isolated valleys. Before all the changes brought about after the Chinese revolution
of 1949, there were no roads in Tibet that wheeled vehicles could travel. All travel was over
winding, dangerous mountain trailsby mule, by foot or by yaks which are hairy cow-like mountain
animals. Trade, communications and centralized government were almost impossible to maintain.
Most of Tibet is above the tree-line. The air is very thin. Most crops and trees won't grow
there. It was a struggle to grow food and even find fuel for fires.
At the time of the revolution, the population of Tibet was extremely spread out. About two or
three million Tibetans lived in an area half the size of the United Statesabout 1.5 million
square miles. Villages, monasteries and nomad encampments were often separated by many days of
difficult travel.
Maoist revolutionaries saw there were Three Great Lacks in old Tibet: lack of fuel, lack of
communications, and lack of people. The revolutionaries analyzed that these Three Great Lacks
were not mainly caused by the physical conditions, but by the social system. The Maoists said
that the Three Great Lacks were caused by the Three Abundances in Tibetan society: Abundant
poverty, abundant oppression and abundant fear of the supernatural.
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A Amazing Place in Tibet
We just meet a peacefull place in Tibet...
SOME FACTS ABOUT TIBET-----Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpa, Qiang, and Lhoba peoples and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han Chinese and Hui people. Tibet is the highest region on Earth, with an average elevation of 4,900 metres (16,000 ft). The highest elevation in Tibet is Mount Everest, Earth's highest mountain, rising 8,848 m (29,029 ft) above sea level.
The Tibetan Empire emerged in the 7th century, but with the fall of the empire the region soon divided into a variety of territories. The bulk of western and central Tibet (Ü-Tsang) was often at least nominally unified under a series of Tibetan governments in Lhasa, Shigatse, or nearby locations; these governments were at various times under Mongol and Chinese overlordship. The eastern regions of Kham and Amdo often maintained a more decentralized indigenous political structure, being divided among a number of small principalities and tribal groups, while also often falling more directly under Chinese rule after the Battle of Chamdo; most of this area was eventually incorporated into the Chinese provinces of Sichuan and Qinghai. The current borders of Tibet were generally established in the 18th century.[1]
Following the Xinhai Revolution against the Qing dynasty in 1912, Qing soldiers were disarmed and escorted out of Tibet Area (Ü-Tsang). The region subsequently declared its independence in 1913 without recognition by the subsequent Chinese Republican government.[2] Later, Lhasa took control of the western part of Xikang, China. The region maintained its autonomy until 1951 when, following the Battle of Chamdo, Tibet became incorporated into the People's Republic of China, and the previous Tibetan government was abolished in 1959 after a failed uprising.[3] Today, China governs western and central Tibet as the Tibet Autonomous Region while the eastern areas are now mostly ethnic autonomous prefectures within Sichuan, Qinghai and other neighbouring provinces. There are tensions regarding Tibet's political status[4] and dissident groups that are active in exile.[5] It is also said that Tibetan activists in Tibet have been arrested or tortured.[6]
The economy of Tibet is dominated by subsistence agriculture, though tourism has become a growing industry in recent decades. The dominant religion in Tibet is Tibetan Buddhism; in addition there is Bön, which is similar to Tibetan Buddhism,[7] and there are also Tibetan Muslims and Christian minorities. Tibetan Buddhism is a primary influence on the art, music, and festivals of the region. Tibetan architecture reflects Chinese and Indian influences. Staple foods in Tibet are roasted barley, yak meat, and butter tea.
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Episode 164 - Why Can You See a Picture of the Dalai Lama in Modern China?
July 13. I'm back at the Tibetan Buddhist temple I was at yesterday, discussing the political situation in Ganzi. All areas in the western region of Sichuan province are contested between the Han and Tibetans, and today, in my hostel, a girl was almost raped. This is a word of caution to travelers in this area.
Here is my travel blog for traveling in China:
My travel pics are at
Both of these are kind of rough and untidy (unsorted) because outside websites are slow in China and I don't have time to sit in front of a computer all day.
Profiles in Courage: Tibetan Resistance 1959-2009
Milwaukee Art Museum Summer of China
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett recently dedicated summer 2011 as The Summer of China, here in Milwaukee. The Milwaukee Art Museum will open its Summer of China exhibit to the public on Saturday, June 11, though guests at MAM After Dark on Friday will be able to get a sneak peek.
The museum will host a series of five exhibitions included its feature exhibition The Emperor's Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City. The exhibition features 90 objects from the historic Qianlong Garden, a 2 acre meditation area designed for China Emperor Qianlong.
中国の近代化を撮る - Photographing the Modernization of China
急速な経済成長の中、目まぐるしい変化を続ける今の中国。中国で3番目に大きい都市、広州市を拠点とする写真家のゼン・ハンは、一台の大判カメラで、変わり続けるこの町の風景を収めている。
Our photography show Picture Perfect visits Zeng Han as he documents the modernization of Guangzhou, the third-largest city in China.
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Tibet (1912–1951) | Wikipedia audio article
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Tibet (1912–1951)
00:01:32 1 History
00:01:41 1.1 Downfall of Qing dynasty (1911–12)
00:03:50 1.2 Simla Convention (1914)
00:07:43 1.3 After the death of the 13th Dalai Lama in 1933
00:10:02 1.4 1930s to 1949
00:17:55 1.5 Incorporation into the People's Republic of China
00:19:16 2 Politics
00:19:24 2.1 Government
00:19:33 2.2 Military
00:20:54 2.3 Foreign relations
00:24:48 3 Society and culture
00:28:23 4 See also
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The historical era of Tibet from 1912 to 1951 followed the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1912, and lasted until the incorporation of Tibet into the People's Republic of China by the People's Republic of China. The Tibetan Ganden Phodrang regime was Protectorate of the Qing until 1912, when the Provisional Government of the Republic of China replaced the Qing dynasty as the government of China, and signed a treaty with the Qing government inheriting all territories of the previous dynasty into the new republic, giving Tibet the status of a Protectorate with high levels of autonomy as it was Protectorate under the dynasty. At the same time, Tibet was also a British Protectorate. However, at the same time, several Tibetan representatives signed a treaty between Tibet and Mongolia proclaiming mutual recognition and their independence from China, although the Government of the Republic of China did not recognize its legitimacy. With the high levels of autonomy and the proclaiming of independence by several Tibetan representatives, this period of Tibet is often described as de facto independent, especially by some Tibetan independence supporters, although most countries of the world, as well as the United Nations, recognized Tibet as a part of the Republic of China.
The era ended after the Nationalist government of China lost the Chinese Civil War against the Chinese Communist Party, when the People's Liberation Army entered Tibet in 1950 and the Seventeen Point Agreement was signed with the Chinese affirming China's sovereignty over Tibet the following year.
China’s Tibetan and Uighur Nationalities | Fairbank Center 60th Anniversary Symposium Panel
Among China’s 55 officially recognized ethnic minorities, two of the largest groups are Tibetan and Uighur ethnic minorities. This panel, chaired by Harvard’s Professor Leonard van der Kuijp, unpacks the position of these two minority groups in the contemporary People’s Republic of China, featuring presentations by Weirong Shen (Renmin University of China), Brenton Sullivan (Colgate University), Ryosuke Kobayashi (Toyo Bunko, Japan), and Rian Thum (Loyola University).
High Rivers Run Low
How the Tibetan Plateau is receding because of climate change and what China is trying to do about it
Tibet
Tibet is a plateau region in Asia, north-east of the Himalayas, in the People's Republic of China. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpas, Qiang, and Lhobas, and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han and Hui people. Tibet is the highest region on Earth, with an average elevation of 4,900 metres .
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Hui people | Wikipedia audio article
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Hui people
00:01:54 1 Definition
00:02:02 1.1 Ancestry
00:04:09 1.2 Genetics
00:05:04 1.3 Huihui, and Hui
00:09:41 1.4 Related terms
00:13:44 1.4.1 Zhongyuan ren
00:14:44 1.4.2 Pusuman
00:15:16 1.4.3 Muslim Chinese
00:16:13 1.5 In other countries
00:16:22 1.5.1 Dungan
00:19:10 1.5.2 Panthay
00:19:47 1.6 Official
00:20:14 1.7 Non-Muslims
00:22:30 2 History
00:22:39 2.1 Origins
00:24:56 2.1.1 Converted Han
00:27:04 2.2 Tang dynasty
00:27:50 2.3 Song dynasty
00:29:24 2.4 Yuan Dynasty
00:30:40 2.5 Ming Dynasty
00:34:41 2.6 Qing Dynasty
00:35:33 2.6.1 Muslim revolts
00:40:44 2.6.2 Religious allowances
00:41:52 2.7 Republic of China
00:50:06 2.8 Current situation
00:53:14 2.8.1 Tensions between Hui and Uyghurs
00:55:40 2.8.2 Tibetan-Muslim sectarian violence
00:57:14 2.9 Sects of Islam
00:58:14 3 Relations with other religions
00:59:38 4 Culture
00:59:47 4.1 Sects
00:59:55 4.2 Mosques
01:00:23 4.3 Foot binding
01:00:59 4.4 Cultural practices
01:02:30 4.5 Names
01:03:21 4.5.1 Surnames
01:03:57 4.6 Literature
01:04:50 4.7 Language
01:05:35 4.8 Marriage
01:06:08 4.8.1 Outside marriage
01:09:16 4.9 Education
01:10:10 4.10 Military service
01:15:15 4.11 Politics
01:16:27 5 Outside mainland China
01:18:23 6 Ethnic tensions
01:21:04 7 Notable Hui people
01:26:08 8 Related group names
01:26:30 9 See also
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The Hui people (Chinese: 回族; pinyin: Huízú; Wade–Giles: Hui2tsu2, Xiao'erjing: خُوِذُو; Dungan: Хуэйзў, Xuejzw) are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed of Han Chinese adherents of the Muslim faith found throughout China, mainly in the northwestern provinces of the country and the Zhongyuan region. According to the 2011 census, China is home to approximately 10.5 million Hui people, the majority of whom are Chinese-speaking practitioners of Islam, though some may practise other religions. The 110,000 Dungan people of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are also considered part of the Hui ethnicity.
Their culture has distinct differences that developed from the practice of Islam. For example, as Muslims, they follow Islamic dietary laws and reject the consumption of pork, the most common meat consumed in China, and have given rise to their own variation of Chinese cuisine. Traditional Hui clothing differs from that of the Han primarily in that some men wear white caps (taqiyah) and some women wear headscarves, as is the case in many Islamic cultures. However, since the industrialization and modernization of China, most of the young Hui people wear the same clothes as mainstream fashion trends.
The Hui people are one of 56 ethnic groups recognized by China. The government defines the Hui people to include all historically Muslim communities not included in China's other ethnic groups. The Hui predominantly speak Chinese, while maintaining some Persian and Arabic phrases. In fact, the Hui ethnic group is unique among Chinese ethnic minorities in that it associates with no non-Sinitic language.The Hui people are more concentrated in Northwestern China (Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang), but communities exist across the country, e.g. Beijing,Xi'an Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Hainan and Yunnan.
Village school promotes basketball workouts during morning break
Innovative: A village school in Shanxi, China promotes basketball workouts during the morning break.
Kashmir and the Development of Tibetan Buddhism: Talk by Professor Matthew Kapstein
Matthew T. Kapstein specializes in the history of Buddhist philosophy in India and Tibet, as well as in the cultural history of Tibetan Buddhism more generally. Kapstein has published over a dozen books and numerous articles, among the most recent of which are a general introduction to Tibetan cultural history, The Tibetans (Oxford 2006), an edited volume on Sino-Tibetan religious relations, Buddhism Between Tibet and China (Boston 2009), and a translation of an eleventh-century philosophical allegory in the acclaimed Clay Sanskrit Series, The Rise of Wisdom Moon (New York 2009). With Kurtis Schaeffer (University of Virginia) and Gray Tuttle (Columbia), he has completed Sources of Tibetan Traditions, published in the Columbia University Press Sources of Asian Traditions series in 2013.
Director of Tibetan Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris and Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School, Matthew T. Kapstein addressed aspects of the history of Buddhist philosophy and literature in Kashmir and their legacy in Tibet, illustrated with examples from the art of these lands.
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The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from July 7, 1937, to September 2, 1945. It began with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937 in which a dispute between Japanese and Chinese troops escalated into a battle.
China fought Japan with aid from the Soviet Union and the United States. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the war merged with other conflicts of World War II as a major sector known as the China Burma India Theater. Some scholars consider the start of the full-scale Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to have been the beginning of World War II. The Second Sino-Japanese War was the largest Asian war in the 20th century. It accounted for the majority of civilian and military casualties in the Pacific War, with between 10 and 25 million Chinese civilians and over 4 million Chinese and Japanese military personnel dying from war-related violence, famine, and other causes.
The war was the result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy to expand its influence politically and militarily in order to secure access to raw material reserves, food, and labor. The period after World War I brought about increasing stress on the Japanese polity. Leftists sought universal suffrage and greater rights for workers. Increasing textile production from Chinese mills was adversely affecting Japanese production. The Great Depression brought about a large slowdown in exports. All of this contributed to militant nationalism, culminating in the rise to power of a militarist fascist faction. This faction was led at its height by the Hideki Tojo cabinet of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association under edict from Emperor Hirohito. In 1931, the Mukden Incident helped spark the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. The Chinese were defeated and Japan created a new puppet state, Manchukuo; many historians cite 1931 as the beginning of the war. The view has been adopted by the PRC government. From 1931 to 1937, China and Japan continued to skirmish in small, localized engagements, so-called incidents.
Initially the Japanese scored major victories, capturing both Shanghai and the Chinese capital of Nanking in 1937. After failing to stop the Japanese in the Battle of Wuhan, the Chinese central government was relocated to Chongqing (Chungking) in the Chinese interior. By 1939, after Chinese victories in Changsha and Guangxi, and with Japan's lines of communications stretched deep into the Chinese interior, the war reached a stalemate. The Japanese were also unable to defeat the Chinese communist forces in Shaanxi, which waged a campaign of sabotage and guerrilla warfare against the invaders. While Japan ruled the large cities, they lacked sufficient manpower to control China's vast countryside. During this time, Chinese communist forces launched a counter offensive in Central China while Chinese nationalist forces launched a large scale winter offensive.
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and the following day the United States declared war on Japan. The United States began to aid China by airlifting material over the Himalayas after the Allied defeat in Burma that closed the Burma Road. In 1944 Japan launched the invasion, Operation Ichi-Go, that conquered Henan and Changsha. However, this failed to bring about the surrender of Chinese forces. In 1945, the Chinese Expeditionary Force resumed its advance in Burma and completed the Ledo Road linking India to China. At the same time, China launched large counteroffensives in South China and retook West Hunan and Guangxi.
Despite continuing to occupy part of China's territory, Japan eventually surrendered on September 2, 1945, to Allied forces following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Soviet invasion of Japanese-held Manchuria. The remaining Japanese occupation forces (excluding Manchuria) for ...
CAS Speaker Series: Campus Visit of Contemporary Tibetan Artist Gonkar Gyatso, April 5, 2016
Gonkar Gyatso presents Buddha in the Bathroom: Appropriation and Pop Culture in Contemporary Tibetan Art. Widely considered the father of contemporary Tibetan art, Gonkar Gyatso was one of a number of young Tibetans seeking new vehicles for creative expression and co-founded the Sweet Tea House artists’ collective in Lhasa in in 1984. Later he left Tibet first for the exile community in Dharamsala and then to pursue further studies in the UK. Throughout his career, Gonkar has produced mixed media works that disrupt traditional Tibetan art, referencing conceptual frameworks ranging from Kandinsky to Cubism as well as drawing on Buddhist symbols. Controversial to some, Gonkar’s works emphasize questions of identity performance, displacement and exile, and the commodification of Tibetan Buddhism.
Underground structure capped for Xiongan high-speed rail station
The underground structure has been capped for Xiongan railway station in Hebei, China. Upon completion, it will be the largest newly-constructed station on a high-speed line linking it with Beijing. #HighSpeedRail
Return of Ten Thousand Dharmas: A Celebration in Honor of Patricia Berger
Professor Patricia Berger, UC Berkeley, keynote speech