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Reds Under The Bed: A Review Of Peter Hartcher’s Quarterly Essay

Reds Under The Bed: A Review Of Peter Hartcher’s Quarterly Essay

In 2012, Perry Anderson identified a growing body of literature that, rather than being Sinology proper, sought to answer the question: ‘China – what’s in it for us?’ It ‘consists of works that appear to be about China, or some figure or topic from China,’ he wrote,...
The Foremost Donation of All

The Foremost Donation of All

‘To free ourselves is to trespass, and to transform. It is through a creation of the new that that which has not yet existed begins to exist. To free yourself is to trespass. To trespass is to exist. To free ourselves is to exist.’ Augusto Boal, Theatre of the...
A Visit to the Dalai Lama’s Birthplace

A Visit to the Dalai Lama’s Birthplace

On July 6, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, celebrated his 83rd birthday in Ladakh, the Himalayan region in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. On the other side of the world’s highest mountain range sits Lhasa, the Tibetan capital that he fled in 1959...
Tibetan Self-immolation

Tibetan Self-immolation

‘Wherever there is oppression, there is resistance.’ Mao Zedong   For all the book’s flaws, Albert Camus’ Myth of Sisyphus remains one of the best encapsulations of what it means to engage in political struggle. Faced with insurmountable adversity, in...