When the People’s Republic of China was founded, in 1949, it was explicitly a multinational state. Although Han Chinese make up more than 90 percent of the country’s population, China’s constitution and subsequent laws grant minority nationalities autonomy in specific regions and promise them collective agency as “masters of their own homes.” For decades, the...
The Atlanta-area spa shootings — in which a White gunman allegedly slaughtered eight people, including six Asian women — have propelled the subject of anti-Asian violence to the center of the national conversation. For first-generation Asian Americans such as myself, who never begrudged our collective invisibility so long as our personal security was assured, it is profoundly...
In this episode of The Little Red Podcast Tibet Action’s Tenzin Dorjee joined author Barbara Demick and historian Benno Weiner to discuss alarming developments in China’s colonial strategies toward Tibet. They discuss Beijing’s three-front assault on Tibetan language, religion and way of life, the sharp rise in the general level of fear among ordinary people,...
