I have a television, but it stopped working a year ago, and it had probably stopped working long before that. I wouldn’t have known since I’d rarely turned it on. Discovering that it was broken was a mei banfa (what are you gonna do!) moment, the thought of getting it fixed never considered. I am [...]
Yushu Earthquake: Monks and Reconstruction 2
April 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments
Tags: earthquake · Qinghai · relief · resettlement · Yushu
Collapsing Schools and Justice
April 15th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Over the past day I have read several blogs, tweets and comments addressing, once again, the collapse of schools in an earthquake, the latest in the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (TAP) in Qinghai province. We still have no idea of the numbers of students killed or injured by crumbling schools, though if we can draw [...]
Tags: earthquake · Qinghai · Tibet
Music Preservation
November 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
I’ve added The Plateau Music Project to my blogroll, and I’d encourage you to have a look and a listen. I know several of the people involved in this project, doing the difficult work of recording and archiving what is rapidly being lost. The Tibetan Endangered Music Project was founded in order to preserve endangered [...]