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Tibet (2008)

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Tibet protests

Legitimate protest or anti-Chinese prejudice? History or power politics? Feudalism or Imperialism?

The Olympics’ “civilising” legacy: St Louis to Beijing

Susan Brownell
The progressive ideals of the Olympic movement are shadowed by colonial attitudes

China's soft-power failure

Li Datong
Tibet, the torch-relay and Sichuan's quake - Beijing's tense Olympics year highlights a governance deficit

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China’s political colours

Jeffrey N Wasserstrom
A China in social and intellectual ferment is finding new ways to slice the national past 

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Tibet: looking for the truth

Chang Ping
The Chinese netizens mobilising against western media distortions should also look in the mirror

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China’s Olympics: after the tumult

Kerry Brown
Beijing’s months of crisis may come to seem the product of a masterly public-relations campaign

Tibet scholars and China: letter to Hu Jintao

openDemocracy
A group of leading specialists on Tibet from around the world write to China's president

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China and Tibet: the true path

Wang Lixiong
Beijing's policy in Tibet is not working. But the cycle of repression and resistance can change. Plus - Chinese intellectuals speak out on Tibet

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Tibet and Taiwan: Chinese netizens debate

Ivy Wang
Tibet's unrest and Taiwan's vote provoke Chinese bloggers to action, report Ivy Wang and Bob Chen

Tibetan unrest, Chinese lens

Wenran Jiang
A new global cybernationalism is shaping Chinese perceptions of the Tibet and Olympic protests

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Tibet: questions of revolt

Robert Barnett
The ingredients of the crisis that has exploded in Tibet were clear to all but an unprepared Beijing

Tibet, China, and the west: empires of the mind

Dibyesh Anand
The clash over the status and future of Tibet has been transformed by the idea of sovereignty

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How to think about Tibet

Donald S Lopez Jr
The experience of a small country in northwestern Europe offers insight into Tibet's turmoil and possible future

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Tibet’s history, China’s power

George Fitzherbert
Behind the current wave of protest against Chinese rule in Tibet lies the growth of a pan-Tibetan identity

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China-Tibet, America-Iraq: perils of forced modernity

Jeffrey N Wasserstrom
The actions of today's global-imperial powers echo those of Japan's 1930s colonial project

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Tibet: revolt with memories

Gabriel Lafitte
The opposition to China’s oppressive rule evident in the Tibetan uprising is also an affirmation of the right to be different

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