THE HIDDEN KINGDOM.(Tibet)

From: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication | Date: September 28, 2001 | Copyright information

Tibet After 50 Years of Chinese Rule

If Tibet didn't actually exist, it would be hard to imagine such a place.

Picture in your mind's eye a vast land lying at the top of the world, surrounded by snow-covered mountains and buffeted by cold winds that blow lonely across rocky plains. Picture a capital city of temples and low, flat-roofed houses dominated by a hilltop fairy-tale palace. Picture a people whose lives were, not too long ago, guided from birth to de...

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