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A Tibetan serf's relentless fight for emancipation

Guard dogs were viciously barking behind them when, on a moonless night, three undernourished and exhausted teenagers climbed frantically over a wall, ran out of Tamshol Village and all the way to Kharila Mountain.

2019-04-02

Feature: A Tibetan serf's relentless fight for emancipation

Guard dogs were viciously barking behind them when, on a moonless night, three undernourished and exhausted teenagers climbed frantically over a wall, ran out of Tamshol Village and all the way to Kharila Mountain.

2019-04-02

Life on Plateau: How the Tibetan mastiffs become stray dogs?

In Tibetan folklore, it's a Tibetan mastiff that brings the first highland barley seed to the plateau. Tibetan mastiffs used to be loyal companions and good guardians of houses and livestock for Tibetan families. However, they suddenly ...

2019-03-27

Into the heart of the glacier

For most of his career, Yao Tandong has led researchers to drill into the heart of glaciers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to collect ice cores, a key to understanding climate change.

2019-03-23

Tibetans up for business are pulled back to their hometowns

As China pushes ahead with its rural revitalization strategy, a craze for entrepreneurship has swept across regions populated by Tibetans, once the economic backwater of the country.

2019-03-20

Tsering Tsotan: From shepherdess to leader of poverty alleviation

Tsering Tsotan, who was born in the 1980s, is a National People's Congress representative from the Changtang Grassland in Tibet. She is the Party branch secretary of Na Village in Chagtse Township, Biru County, Nagqu Prefecture, Tibet A...

2019-03-19

And then there was one

By the time Ash Dykes had reached Chongqing in Southwest China 178 days after setting out to trek the Yangtze River from its source to the sea he had shed 10 kilograms.

2019-03-18

Samdrup Drolma: happy life is the secret to my long life

82-year-old Samdrup Drolma is wearing a Tibetan chuba (dress) and standing on the roof of her home, looking out into distance and thinking about of her past.

2019-03-14

A dream protector of minority students

Kelsang Dekyi was born in 1978 to a farming family in Gendeng Village, Bangxin Township, Medog County, southwest China's Tibet. At the age of seven, she entered a private primary school. She remembers her school as "having a thatched ro...

2019-03-14

I myself have four homes: says an emancipated serf

68-year-old Zhachu is a villager in Chamdo City, southwest China's Tibet. Before the democratic reforms in Tibet in 1959, all seven members of his family were serfs. After the reform, Zhachu's family's life got better and better...

2019-03-06

The end of feudalism in Tibet autonomous region, 60 years on

Samdrub Drolma, 82, has been a farmer her whole working life.The overthrow of

2019-03-05

Li Zuixiong: 18 trips to Tibet to save murals

Li Zuixiong, born in 1941, has worked for more than 50 years on education, research, and project management of cave mural paintings and ancient architecture relics. He has led 40-plus major researches and international partnership collabora...

2019-03-05