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Asian Affairs

Volume 40, Issue 3, 2009

Special Issue:

TIBET: CHINA'S GAZA?

TIBET: CHINA'S GAZA?

DOI:
10.1080/03068370903195139
Jonathan Mirsky*

pages 353-360

Available online: 10 Nov 2009

Abstract

On the fiftieth anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising of 1959, this impassioned article examines the origins of the Uprising and the subsequent course of events. It describes the current situation, discusses the role of the Dalai Lama and examines his pronouncements, as well as trying to explain Chinese attitudes to the Dalai Lama, to Tibet and towards Tibetans. The author comes to a pessimistic conclusion: other countries are not prepared to stand up to China and Tibetan culture is being steadily destroyed by a flood of Han Chinese settlers.

 

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  • Available online: 10 Nov 2009

Author notes

  • Jonathan Mirsky -

    Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist, lecturer and former academic. He studied at Columbia, Cambridge and the University of Pennsylvania and taught at Cambridge, Pennsylvania and Dartmouth. He made six visits to Tibet while he was the Observer's correspondent in China from 1983 to 1993. He was East Asia editor of The Times from 1993 to 1998.

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