22 March 2008
Impasse on high
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With the media spotlight trained on Tibet in the lead-up to the Summer Olympics in Beijing, and the Dalai Lama calling Chinese rule there 'some kind of cultural genocide', what is happening to the language of the Tibetans?
Guests
Melvyn C. Goldstein,
John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology and co-director of the Center for Research on Tibet at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Further Information
Website for Professor Goldstein,
at the Center for Research on Tibet, Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
The Tibet Question, by Melvyn C. Goldstein,
a decade-old article warning of the heightening risk of violence in Tibet, published in Foreign Affairs.
Forked tongue: Tibetan language under attack,
report from the Free Tibet Campaign.
The Tibet-China Conflict: History and Polemics, by Elliot Sperling
An overview of Sino-Tibetan relations, available here in PDF.
Timesonline article on Chinese government pushing Tibetan students
Train across roof of the world a sellout , by James Shrimpton,
from the Sydney Morning Herald, July 17, 2006.
Presenter
Maria Zijlstra
Producer
Carey Dell
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