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The Economist: Why China takes young Tibetans from their families
June 13, 2024June 17, 2024
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The Economist: Why China takes young Tibetans from their families

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. Visiting a Tibetan region where children must attend Chinese-language boarding schools Illustration: Chloe Cushman June 13, 2024 Original Article from the Economist: https://www.economist.com/china/2024/06/13/why-china-takes-young-tibetans-from-their-families An air of quiet piety hangs over Rongwo Monastery in the western province of Qinghai. The streets near this ancient complex draw pilgrims and Tibetan Buddhist monks in dark red robes....

Rumors, Rumors: An Official Celebration of Mao Vanishes from the Record
May 24, 2016November 22, 2017
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Rumors, Rumors: An Official Celebration of Mao Vanishes from the Record

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The Chinese government’s efforts to quell rumors – code for any communication critical of or threatening to The Party – seem to just foster more rumors. Never quite knowing what is going on is much more intriguing than the simple facts would be. This is the case with the “Maoist Revival” that David Bandurski of...

Xi, Mao, and the Unraveling of Deng’s Reforms
May 16, 2016November 22, 2017
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Xi, Mao, and the Unraveling of Deng’s Reforms

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Recently, the New York Review of Books published an insightful article by Andy Nathan, a leading China scholar and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. Here are a few excerpts from Andy Nathan’s observations on the ways in which Xi Jinping is similar to, and different from, Mao, and how his power consolidation project has...

Tactics of Concentration and Dispersion
December 14, 2015November 22, 2017
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Tactics of Concentration and Dispersion

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To Concentrate or to Disperse One useful way of classifying the various nonviolent tactics is to divide them into tactics of concentration and tactics of dispersion. For example, protest demonstrations or rallies are tactics of concentration, because they tend to concentrate hundreds or thousands of people in one location. Tactics of dispersion, on the contrary, are...

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