Tibetans Are Looking to the Post‐Olympic Era |
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| Authors: | SAMDHONG RINPOCHE |
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| Affiliation: | Scholar and monk, is the prime minister of the Tibet government‐in‐exile. He spoke with Matt Schwartz in Dharmshala, India, where the government‐in‐exile is headquartered, for the May/June issue of Good magazine. This interview was syndicated through NPQ's weekly Global Viewpoint column. |
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| Abstract: | Will China's authoritarian leaders succeed in building a future by erasing the past? Can the ideology of “nationalist consumerism” obliterate memory altogether? Will the Olympic applause drown out the weak and exiled witnesses of the Tiananmen crackdown? In this section we listen to a key Tiananmen student leader two decades on as well as check in with today's young elites in Beijing. A political leader from the reformist regime in 1989 calls for justice from house arrest and a young Chinese novelist wonders what kind of identity is possible without memory. |
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