Robert Barnett

Robert Barnett is director of modern Tibetan studies at Columbia University in New York. Among his books are Lhasa: Streets with Memories (Columbia University Press, 2006) and (co-edited with Ronald Schwartz) Tibetan Modernities: Notes from the Field on Social and Cultural Change (Brill, 2008)

Tibet: questions of revolt

The charred bodies and pulped faces of Chinese migrants murdered during the riots in Lhasa on 14 March 2008 are likely to become a new and terrible image of Tibet.

By Robert Barnett

/ 4 Apr 2008