When a British diplomat was found murdered in southwest China in 1875, near the Burmese border, a political spat was triggered that would have wide-ranging ramifications.

Read Thomas Bird's review of A Murder in Yunnan by David Leffman: chinabooksreview.com/2026/04/16/y...

"There is always a delay in the print process while it goes through a body in China that checks up things. There are sensitivities about maps and anything that mentions Tibet for example"

"Necropolitics, Sino-Tibetan Relations, and the Panchen Lama" Seminar with anthropologist Charlene Makley (Reed College) at LSE on Monday, Apr 27 from 2-5 pm.

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The Eightfold Salt Path

A Banned Tibetan Epic Returns Suppressed in China, Tsering Döndrup’s novel reaches English readers with an unflinching account of imprisonment, famine, death, and generational trauma.

The Great Amdo Rebellion was an uprising in the Amdo region of Tibet against Chinese Communist authorities in 1958. Learn more in Tsering Döndrup’s unflinching account of imprisonment, famine, death, and generational trauma.
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Baihanluo (Bahang) Catholic Church, set up by Father Jules Dubernard of the French Missions Etranger. The conversion of Tibetans greatly angered the local lamas and he was murdered by a mob in 1905.

Of Dispersal(s) — ཡུལ་གྱར་གྱི་སྐོར། While a few individual Tibetans returned to Tibet in the 1970s and 1980s, it was in the 1990s that a noticeable group of returnees came to be formed. Many families in Tibet who had initially left t…

What happens when children sent by parents in #Tibet to Tibetan #refugee schools in #India in the 1980s are forced to return to Tibet in the 1990s due to #Chinese gov orders? Tsering Dolkar tells us in this personal account in #Tibetan & English on Lhakar Diaries

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Thanks for asking! We're thinking summer!

Check in at Cizhong guesthouse and the laoban is plucking a goose.
Got a room with a view of the Catholic church. #China

The exhibition runs until 27 September 2026, well worth a visit!

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Looking for new titles from well-versed writers? Our latest #PageOne includes Sonia Sanchez’s 24th book, This Is Not a Small Voice; Mark Haddon’s 15th book, Leaving Home; and Tsering Woeser’s 24th book, Ocean, as Much as Rain, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain + Dechen Pemba. at.pw.org/PageOne2026x2

Revered Tibetan Buddhist Teacher Kyabje Chime Rinpoche Has Died at 85 - Buddhistdoor Global Marpa House in the United Kingdom announced the passing of Kyabje Chime Rinpoche on 24 March and ongoing prayer ceremonies

BDG News: Revered Tibetan Buddhist Teacher Kyabje Chime Rinpoche Has Died at 85

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#Buddhism #TibetanBuddhism #Obituary #BuddhistTeacher #ChimeRinpoche #MarpaHouse #Parinirvana #Vajrayana

Our friends in The Confluence Collective have made a short film of our Kalimpong exhibition.

बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head” Kalimpong, India 21-27 February 2026

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#Himalaya #Archives #IndigenousWork #Mountaineering #OtherEverests

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Joining @tibetcurator.bsky.social Emma Martin with activists Te Nam + Tsering Passang discussing #Tibet in the Museum for the "Dissent! #Museums & Political Disagreement" conference on March 26 at the Uni of Manchester, UK

Admission free. Click link for more info: www.eventbrite.com/e/dissent-mu...

Deepzang: the digital propaganda front in China’s Tibet narrative March 19, 2026 Chinese state media reported extensively on March

ICT report: #Deepzang: the digital propaganda front in #China’s #Tibet narrative. "The very name DeepZang feeds into the CCP strategy of #Sinicization by including the Chinese term “Zang” for Tibet rather than using the Tibetan term “Bod.” " "གཏེར་ཚང་"རིག་ནུས་ཐོག་ང་ཚོའི་སྙན་ཐོ། savetibet.org/deepzang-the...

New Ethnic Unity Law Threatens Minority Languages and Cultural Identity During the recently concluded “Two Sessions” annual legislative meetings, the National People’s Congress (NPC) passed a new “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress” that many scholars and educator...

New Ethnic Unity Law Threatens Minority Languages and Cultural Identity

A collage of the twelve featured books from the March/April Page One installment.

Looking for new titles from well-versed writers? Our latest #PageOne includes Sonia Sanchez’s 24th book, This Is Not a Small Voice; Mark Haddon’s 15th book, Leaving Home; and Tsering Woeser’s 24th book, Ocean, as Much as Rain, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain + Dechen Pemba. at.pw.org/PageOne2026x2

I will be screening of "Amala" tomorrow, March 17 at Leiden University. It traces Jetsun Pema's life in Tibet, escape in India, and four decades of leadership at Tibetan Children’s Village school for Tibetan refugee children in India. For info on Film & Location visit: www.iias.asia/events/amala...

This Thursday, on how #Chinese #colonialism in #Tibet persists through state-led discursive and ethnographic practices in the making of the Chinese #empire. QR to Register (Required). ⏰ March 19 | 4:15pm - 5:45pm 📍Wijnhaven, Turfmarkt 99, 2511 DP The Hague, Leiden University (Room 3.48)

Ocean, as Much as Rain by Tsering Woeser | Book Discussion with Dechen Pemba | #tibet #podcast YouTube video by DRUKTALK PODCAST

Thank you to Druktalk Podcast for the book discussion on a cold and foggy east London morning!

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Watch the full video here (in Tibetan):

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Thank you to Voice of Tibet for this discussion on "Ocean, as Much as Rain" by @woeser.bsky.social

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View photos from the successful London book launch event for "Ocean, as Much as Rain" by @woeser.bsky.social at SOAS with Dechen Pemba, Fiona Sze-Lorrain and Jemimah Steinfeld highpeakspureearth.com/photos-from-...

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For those in Vancouver, "Ocean, as Much as Rain" by Tsering Woeser available! #AAS2026

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China’s rubber-stamp parliament set to approve ‘ethnic unity’ law New legislation will require schools to use Mandarin by default, taking priority over minority ethnic languages such as Tibetan, Uyghur and Mongolian

New legislation will require schools to use Mandarin by default, taking priority over minority ethnic languages such as Tibetan, Uyghur and Mongolian.

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NPC 2026: China to Enshrine Xi-Era Ethnic Policy in New Law China's new assimilationist ethnic policy mandates forging a common Han-centric Chinese culture and identity, while muting minority identity expression.

Once passed, this law will finalize the collapsing of many ethnic identities in China that I write about in my book, Let Only Red Flowers Bloom npcobserver.com/2026/03/05/c...

Thank you to all attendees of today's book launch event for "Ocean, as Much as Rain" by @woeser.bsky.social at SOAS London @dukepress.bsky.social Such a great turnout and engagement!

Thank you to @jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.social for moderating @indexoncensorship.org 🙏🏽

A new law in China will formalise a sweeping project to erase much of what remains of its ethnic distinctiveness. It marks a grim milestone econ.st/4lpeibQ

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Why is China set to approve a new law promoting 'ethnic unity'? A law that could threaten the rights of minority groups is a sign of the direction Xi is taking China.

#China’s new “ethnic unity” law, to be passed this week, will accelerate the attempted forced assimilation of the country’s ethnic minorities into the dominant Han culture, according to academics and human rights groups. A piece by me:
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