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

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.

Beijing has carefully cultivated Tibetan officials such as Chunphel, many of whom are also former serfs.

For many fellow Tibetans, Sitar is a Chinese government puppet, but for the Communist Party, the former serf is a model of loyalty and rising political star.

BEIJING, June 4 (Xinhuanet) -- In 1956, I was employed by the Tibet Daily as a news photographer. During those early days, I witnessed many cases in which serfs suffered indescribably heavy manual ...

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 ...

Some "serfs" were also wealthy landowners in their own right, with serf-servants of their own, making a more complex social picture than is reflected in Beijing's official line.

Tenzin's family, along with a million Tibetan serfs, were emancipated after the democratic reform in Tibet in 1959, which was led by the Communist Party of China. Since then, they have stood up for ...

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.

By Xinhua writers Cao Bin, Wang Yangang LHASA, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Wang Jianguo, 70, didn't have a name until he was 20. Wang was born a serf in old Tibet's Nagqu. His parents, both beggars at the ...

"These accusations about human rights, torture and killing are totally groundless," he said, calling 1959 a moment of "democratic reform" that has "liberated millions of Tibetan serfs" and brought ...

The serfs and their families lived miserable lives. Now, 62 years later, Tenzin Chosphel, a former serf, says, "The CPC has shown us the right path, and the Tibetan people have embarked on a journey ...