The New York Times recently published an article about how China has re-cast the 1904 British invasion of Tibet for their own propaganda purposes. In their version, the Tibetans are “stand-ins” for the Chinese who were oppressed by foreign powers during the Qing dynasty. The Tibetan resistance has been glorified with a museum, a block-buster 1997 movie (Red River Valley), a musical, two plays, a novella and another movie about the newly-renamed “City of Heroes.”
The putative goal of all this effort is to bolster the anti-British sentiment that the Chinese government began ramping up around the time of the hand-over of Hong Kong, according to the article.
The irony of China’s trumpeting Tibetan resistance to invaders while themselves being merely the latest wave is not lost on the author.
Here’s the link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/world/asia/10gyantse.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
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