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Along the G316 highway in Tongren City in northwest China’s Qinghai Province, dozens of thangka art academies dot a section of road several kilometers in length. Nearby villages boast painters of the thousand-year-old art.
Despite compelling and apparent evidence of widespread progress in southwest China’s Tibet, naysayers continue to level groundless, and sometimes even fictitious, accusations involving the plateau region.
On a moonless night, two scrawny, exhausted boys frantically escaped becoming nangsan, or house slaves, by slipping out of the city of Lhokha in today’s Tibet autonomous region, and journeying to the present-day regional capital Lhasa.
March 30, 2022 -- Since the 1959 democratic reform in Tibet, profound changes have taken place in the autonomous...
* Sixty-three years ago, about 1 million people in Tibet were liberated from the feudal serfdom.* In old Tibet,...
As spring buds begin to bloom, Nyingchi, a city in Tibet perched at an average altitude of about 3,000 meters, prepares for the annual influx of visitors that flock to this city, high above the clouds.
Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China on Monday celebrated Serfs’ Emancipation Day. This public holiday marks the date in 1959 when people in Tibet launched a democratic reform that ended the region’s feudal serfdom and freed a million serfs, or more than 90 percent of its population at the time.