Therefore, the Tibetan feudal serf system under the integration of religion and politics was a dictatorship of monks and aristocrats. "Under such a system, serfs ...

Later in the same year, I encountered two child beggars fighting for food with stray dogs outside a monastery in Northern Tibet‘s Nagqu pastoral area. Both of them were Duchung, who were in the lowest ...

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The reform freed one million Tibetan serfs, or 90 percent of the region's population at that time. Nyima Tsering, a 71-year-old retiree, said he has joined in the public celebration every year.

Tibetan serf Droldrol can never forget the moment when she was given the first pair of shoes in her life from a soldier of the People’s Liberation Army in 1959.

At that time, an armed rebellion was staged by the 14th Dalai Lama and a group of high-ranking Tibetan feudal serf owners who attempted to preserve the serfdom, and some rebels were looting in Tamshol ...

This Saturday they will launch an annual "Serf Emancipation Day" public holiday in Tibet to mark the ... "This holiday is just another 'made in China' product," said one radical Tibetan, ...

The democratic reform, which started in 1959, gave personal freedom, right to serfs’ life, ... Story of a serf-born Tibetan shows how Xizang experienced earth-shaking progress on democracy, ...

Saturday, China will observe a newly created holiday: Serf Emancipation Day, which commemorates the day in 1959 when the Tibetan government was dissolved after the Chinese government crushed a ...

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BEIJING — Pema Tseden, the Tibetan filmmaker and writer, felt ashamed. For years, he had written stories and screenplays switching between Chinese and his native Tibetan with a nimble linguistic ...