The Potala Palace in Lhasa. Tibet had been an independent state from about 1912, after the collapse of the Qing dynasty in China, till 1951.(File photo/iStock) Maps of Tibet from the 17th century ...
One of the central grievances behind recent unrest in Tibet is the marginalization of Tibetan language. While Tibetan is not among the 40% of China’s minority languages already threatened with ...