In a new book, renowned historian Wu Si debunks the myth that the CCP’s totalitarianism hinders human rights but promotes economic growth. We often hear that the CCP’s totalitarian regime is evil for human rights but good for the economy.Read More →
The Inner Mongolia government also orders schools to phase out Mongolian-medium teaching by the third grade. The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has stepped up moves to eliminate the Mongolian language in schools in its northern region of Inner Mongolia,Read More →
Police in northwestern China’s Qinghai province arrested a popular Tibetan writer and poet on Wednesday after monitoring his activities for signs of political dissent over a long period of time, according to Tibetan sources. Gendun Lhundrup, aged 46 and formerlyRead More →
Ethnic Mongolians in Japan have staged protests during a visit by Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi to the country this week against Beijing’s policy of ending Mongolian-medium education in the northern region of Inner Mongolia. Hundreds of Mongolians currently livingRead More →
In Inner Mongolia, stone tablets on the great emperor have been painted over or destroyed in Hulun Buir, and his portraits removed from schools, while the CCP tries to rewrite history. by Massimo Introvigne Xi Jinping just found aRead More →
Amid the CCP’s campaign to eradicate Mongolian cultural and linguistic identity, schoolteachers and parents are threatened to accept CCP’s cultural genocide policies. by Zheng Jie After the CCP revealed its plans of “bilingual education” in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, gradually replacing MongolianRead More →
The CCP’s policy of eradicating cultural, religious, and linguistic identities is systematic, and derives from Xi Jinping’s reflections on the fall of the Soviet Union. by Massimo Introvigne Bitter Winter has documented in the last few weeks the escalation of theRead More →
The CCP brings gifted students from Tibet to study in inland China, forcing them to give up their culture, language, and traditions in exchange. by Yuan Wei Chanba No. 1 Middle School in Xi’an, the capital of the northwestern provinceRead More →
Nine people have died and thousands have been detained as the authorities launched a region-wide crackdown on ethnic Mongolians protesting an end to Mongolian-medium education with class boycotts and street protests, a New York-based rights group reported on Monday. “AsRead More →
The school year for children living in Tibetan areas of China has started under harsh new restrictions, with children in one Qinghai county ordered by authorities out of their homes and into Chinese boarding schools, and the language of classroomRead More →
A 33-year-old ethnic Mongolian woman has died by suicide in what her family members said was an act of protest over the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s plans to phase out Mongolian-medium education and language teaching in schools. Surnaa, who workedRead More →
A study by Rian Thum shows how the most beloved Uyghur shrines are being either “museumified” or destroyed. by Massimo Introvigne Rian Thum, from the University of Nottingham, is one of world’s leading experts in Uyghur traditions and culture. OnRead More →
A fascinating study by Timothy Grose shows how the “Three News” brutal campaign in Xinjiang is transforming domestic spaces to eradicate Uyghur identity. I learned long ago from Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre (1900–1987) how important are homes’ architecture and decorRead More →
In early April, schools in Ngawa [Ch.: Aba] prefecture, a largely Tibetan region of China’s Sichuan province, reopened following the Covid-19 outbreak. The good news came with a disturbing development: the use of Tibetan language in classes would be scrapped as of September, when the next academic year begins.Read More →
Children in the Tibetan Autonomous Region are losing fluency in the Tibetan language as schools in the region are increasingly teaching subjects in Mandarin on Chinese government orders.Read More →
Teachers from China’s interior are being encouraged to move to and settle in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to provide “aid” for residents, according to sources, but members of the Uyghur exile community say the program is another measure aimed at “colonizing” their homeland.Read More →
Instruction in Tibetan classrooms in Sichuan’s Ngaba prefecture will soon be given exclusively in Chinese, with the students’ mother tongue used only in special classes teaching Tibetan as a language, sources in Ngaba say of a an issue that has emerged as a major sore point among Tibetans.Read More →
