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“Collecting Eyewitness Accounts in Lhasa”: An Interview That Made Me Continue to Think About the Cultural Revolution in Tibet – Part 7 By Woeser

The female Tibetan doctor Tsephel came from Lhasa’s famous Nyarongsha aristocratic doctor’s family. During the Cultural Revolution, she and her parents who were also famous medical doctors and educators and her elder brother were denounced by marching through the streets. (Photo taken by Woeser at the time of interview in February 2003)

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser, originally written for the Mandarin service of Radio Free Asia and published on her blog on April 27, 2018. This is the seventh essay in a long series of posts about the Cultural Revolution in Tibet. Read more

September 12, 2018 / by High Peaks Pure Earth / Tags: Aristocracy, Cultural Revolution, Denunciations, Forbidden Memory, Jokhang, Jokhang Temple, Lhasa, Luo Siling, Nyarongsha, Photographs, Photography, Red Guards, Samding Dorje Phagmo, Sampo Tsewang Rigzin, Tsering Dorje

Tibetan Film Director Pema Tseden: “Jinpa” is Different From All My Earlier Films

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a profile of Tibetan film director Pema Tseden that was circulated via WeChat on August 1, 2018. The profile focuses on Pema Tseden's new film, "Jinpa". Read more

September 6, 2018 / by High Peaks Pure Earth / Tags: Film, Jet Tone Films, Jinpa, Kekexili, Paths of the Soul, Pema Tseden, Tibetan Cinema, Tibetan Film, Venice Film Festival, Wong Kar-wai

Music Video: “City” By Lobsang Nyima

High Peaks Pure Earth presents the music video "City" by Lobsang Nyima which came out in January 2018. Read more

August 16, 2018 / by High Peaks Pure Earth / Tags: City, Lobsang Nyima, Menlha Kyab, Urban, Urbanisation

Two Music Videos by ANU: “Leaving Home” and ANUism”

Going further into the back catalogue of songs by popular Tibetan duo ANU, High Peaks Pure Earth presents two videos from their debut "ANUism" EP which was released in July 2016. Read more

August 1, 2018 / by High Peaks Pure Earth / Tags: ANU, ANUism, Bhuchung D. Sonam, Tibetan Pop, Tibetan Rap, Youth

“The Cultural Revolution Has Not Been Purged”: An Interview That Made Me Continue to Think About the Cultural Revolution in Tibet – Part 6 By Woeser

Red Guards changed the name of Norbulingka, the summer residence of the Dalai Lama, into “People’s Park”. Underneath the centre portrait of Mao, the man with the glasses and the peaked cap is the main creator of Lhasa’s Red Guards, Tao Changsong. (Photo by Tsering Dorje)

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser, originally written for the Mandarin service of Radio Free Asia and published on her blog on February 20, 2018. This is the sixth essay in a long series of posts about the Cultural Revolution in Tibet. Read more

July 25, 2018 / by High Peaks Pure Earth / Tags: Cultural Revolution, Forbidden Memory, Great Alliance Command, Jokhang, Lhasa, Luo Siling, Norbulingka, Photographs, Photography, Red Guards, Revolutionary Rebels Headquarters, Tao Changsong, Tibet Remembered, Tibetan Academy of Social Science, Tsering Dorje

High Peaks Pure Earth Summer 2018 Reading List

A Selection of the Summer 2018 Reading List

High Peaks Pure Earth presents the Summer 2018 Reading List! We've updated the previous Winter Reading List to include 26 (!) more titles covering the span of the entire Tibetan Buddhist world. Please note the reading list is best viewed on your computer’s browser, each link opens in a new tab. Read more

July 18, 2018 / by High Peaks Pure Earth / Tags: Asian Borderlands, Asian International Relations, Buddhism, Buddhist Art, Columbia University Press, Costumes, Dalai Lama, Darjeeling, Development, Diaspora, Exile, Gendun Chopel, Golden Urn, Grasslands, Himalayan Borderlands, History, Identity, Jewellery, Kalimpong, Ladakh, Leh, Lhasa, Love, Medicine, Memory, Mount Wutai, Murals, Nomads, Orient Black Swan, Pastures, Qing Empire, Sex, Shambhala Publications, Speaking Tiger, Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Medicine, University Press of New England, Uyghur Community

“Pastures of Change: Contemporary Adaptations and Transformations among Nomadic Pastoralists of Eastern Tibet” By Gillian Tan

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Published by Springer in April 2018, "Pastures of Change: Contemporary Adaptations and Transformations among Nomadic Pastoralists of Eastern Tibet" by Gillian Tan offers a novel examination of socio-environmental change in a nomadic pastoralist area of the eastern Tibetan plateau. Read more

July 18, 2018 / by High Peaks Pure Earth / Tags: Gillian Tan, Kham, Nomads, Springer, Tibetan Pastoralists

“The Battle for Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China” By Charlene Makley

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Published in May 2018 by Cornell University Press, "The Battle for Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China" by Charlene Makley looks at the rising stakes of Tibetans’ encounters with Chinese state-led development projects in the early 2000s. The book builds upon anthropology’s qualitative approach to personhood, power and space to rethink the premises and consequences of economic development campaigns in China's multi-ethnic northwestern province of Qinghai. Read more

July 18, 2018 / by High Peaks Pure Earth / Tags: Charlene Makley, Cornell University Press, Development, Economic Development, Marginalization, Personhood, Power, Space