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 ...

Asia: Many former serfs have aligned with China and against the Dalai Lama. They struggle with tradition versus modernity. A Tale of Torn Loyalties for Tibetan Officials - Los Angeles Times ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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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. Skip to main content.