1. China-Bashing Season
(Community/Blogs - English)

... rights record. Michael Posner, an assistant secretary of state, said China was harassing lawyers and activists seen by Beijing as threats to the Chinese Communist Party, repressing Tibetan and Uighur minorities ...

2. China-Bashing Season
(Community/Blogs)

... rights record. Michael Posner, an assistant secretary of state, said China was harassing lawyers and activists seen by Beijing as threats to the Chinese Communist Party, repressing Tibetan and Uighur minorities ...

3. The State Department’s 2009 Report on Religious Freedom Conditions in China
(Articles/Politics)

... have ever been imposed by the U.S. government.   A large portion of the report is concerned with conditions affecting Tibetan Buddhism and Xingyang Muslims.  This article will focus on its segments concerning ...

4. Chinese Religiosities
(Resources and Reviews/Reviews)

... of Tibetan monasteries, and the struggle between the Falun Gong and the Communist government.  The undercurrent connecting all of these articles is how the modern Chinese state interacts with the codification ...

5. Sustainability on the Third Pole: Of Water and Carbon; Policies and People
(Articles/Politics)

... are the purported benefits of urbanization for the environment (leading, for example, to the relocation of one hundred percent of Tibetan nomadic herders in Qinghai province over the next five years by ...

6. Xining
(People and Culture/Major Cities)

... Birds Island, situated on the northwest of Qinghai Lakehas an extensive array of birds. To the southwest of Xining, is the birthplace of the founder of the Gelugpa Sect. The gem of the Tibetan culture-Ta'er ...

7. Lhasa
(People and Culture/Major Cities)

... spiritual history that has helped to create the romantic and mysterious Tibetan religion.   Topography: As the beautiful capital city of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), Lhasa is situated in the South ...

8. Lanzhou
(People and Culture/Major Cities)

... Bao’an, Dongxiang, Tibetan, Yugu and Sala and more.   Topography: The Lanzhou topography is comprised of valleys, basins, hilly land and the Huangtumao ditch and gully area. The Yellow River flows through ...

9. Xizang Autonomous Region
(People and Culture/Provinces)

Tibet (Tibet Autonomous Region or TAR, and Xizang in Chinese). Area: 1,274,900 square kilometers 2nd in the nation Population: 2.77 million Ethnicity: Tibetan-92.8%, Han-6.1%, Hui-.3%, Monpa-.3%, and ...

10. Sichuan Province
(People and Culture/Provinces)

Sichuan is located in the Upper Yangtze Valley in the southwest part of the country. Bordering provinces are Chongqing Municipality, Tibetan Autonomous Region, Qinghai, Ganxu, Shaanxi, Guiahou, and Yunnan. ...

11. Qinghai Province
(People and Culture/Provinces)

... and Tibet Autonomous Region on the southwest. Area:  721,200 square meters Population:  5.432 million Ethnicity: Han-54%, Tibetan-23%, Hui-16%, Tu-4%, Salar-1.8%, Mongol-1/8/% Per Capita GDP: 7310 ...

12. Gansu Province
(People and Culture/Provinces)

... Groups: Han, Hui, Tibetan, Mongol and eight other ethnic groups. Per  capita GDP: 5010 RMB (605 USD) Capital: Lanzhou Major Cities: Dunhuang, Jiayuguan Agriculture: The grassland in Gansu Province ...

13. Chongqing Municipality
(People and Culture/Provinces)

...  Ethnic Groups: Han, Tujia, Tibetan, Miao and other ethnic groups. The total population of the minority groups comes to 1.75 million, of which the Tujia people are the largest, having 1.13 million and ...

14. Achang
(People and Culture/People Groups)

... century. Achangs have a spoken language of their own but through intermarriage also speak both the Dai and Han languages. Their language belongs to the Tibetan-Burmese language family while their written ...

15. Baoan
(People and Culture/People Groups)

The Baoan People The Baoan originally came to the city of Linxia, southwest of Lanzhou in Gansu Province from Baoan, 150 kilometers west of Qinghai, which was populated by Tibetan Buddhists. The decision ...

16. Dong
(People and Culture/People Groups)

... Dong nationality can be found in ancient Chinese historical sources from as far back as the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.). The Dong language belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family, the Kam-Dai branch, ...

17. Jingpo
(People and Culture/People Groups)

... death. The Jingpo language belongs to the Tibetan-Burmese language family. Though they have had a written language of their own for one hundred years, few people use it. Even so, thanks to liberation, ...

18. Kazak
(People and Culture/People Groups)

... live in the Haixi Mongolian, Tibetan, and Kazak Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province and the Aksay Kazak Autonomous County in Gansu Province. As of 1994 there were 1,111,000 Kazaks. Their language ...

19. Lahu
(People and Culture/People Groups)

... County in western Xishuangbanna in Yunnan Province. A large number of Lahu are found in Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos. The Lahu language belongs to the Chinese-Tibetan language family and contains ...

20. Lhoba
(People and Culture/People Groups)

... for the next harvest to be a good one. According to government sources, life is better for the Lhoba since Liberation. Prior to that, they were illiterate, but they now use the Tibetan script and many ...