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China’s Colonial Polices and its Practice in Tibet

China’s Colonial Polices and its Practice in Tibet

Introduction The expansion of China’s colonial boarding school system in Tibet represents one of the most far-reaching sociocultural transformations in the region’s modern history. While Chinese officials present these institutions as vehicles for ‘poverty alleviation’ and ‘modernisation’, a growing body of scholarship argues that their design reflects settler-colonial logics aimed at restructuring Tibetan identity, language, […]

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