Barbara Bower and Barbara Rose Johnston, eds.2007
Left Coast Press
On May 2, 2008 the cyclone Nargis crashed into Myanmar, killing an estimated 78,000 people and inundating countless acres of land. A week later, an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale struck Wenchuan County in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. These two events brought the […]
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Indigenous Peoples of South and Central Asia Book Review
August 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »
Tags: indigenous+peoples · social justice · india · colonialism · China · Tibet · environment
Indigenous Peoples of Tibet
July 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Post to NewsCloud »
The Qinghai-Tibet plateau, home to approximately six million indigenous Tibetans, was historically divided into three provinces: U-tsang, Kham, and Amdo. Today, after the invasion by China, U-stang has been designated the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). Encompassing the central part of the plateau, in which the Tibetan capital of Lhasa is located, the province is also […]
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Historical Fiction on China Great for Summer
June 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »
The Olympics are coming to China this summer and a lot of eyes are on the country as it emerges as a world power. China now is responsible for 14% of the world’s economy, and consumes over half of the global demand for metal and one-third the demand for oil. There are over 1 billion […]
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