Mind Games: The Dalai Lama Takes Harvard

The Dalai Lama is a lot more playful than your average Harvard professor, which is one reason his appearance at a Harvard psychology conference on Friday was so enterta

Life is a trial for Chinese lawyer

For the family of Gao Zhisheng, a maverick lawyer under house arrest for years after confronting the Communist Party head-on, security was so tight that police sometimes sat in the bedroom of their Beijing apartment,

China orders officials to smoke

The authorities in Gong’an county had told civil servants and teachers to smoke 230,000 packs of the locally-made Hubei brand each year. Those who did not smoke enough or used brands from other provinces or overseas faced being fined or

China reject latest US report on religious freedom

The commission said Washington should include concerns about China’s religious freedoms in its bilateral discussions at the highest level and continue to push to be allowed to set up consulates in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, and

A talk with the Dalai Lama

Drawing a distinction between autonomy for Tibet and political independence, he explained the request his envoys made to Chinese officials last summer, shortly after the violent clashes on the Tibetan plateau in March 2008