China Letter

Tibet, contrary to many foreign people's wishful thinking, was practically a living hell back then. Serfs, accounting for around 95 percent of the total population in Tibet at that time, were forced to shed sweat and blood for the sumptuous lives enjoyed by powerful lords like the Dalai Lama.

Tibet, which was struggling in severe poverty 53 years ago, has been painted by the Dalai and his supporters as a Shangri-La with seemingly no secular troubles. This heavenly world was only interrupted when the CPC stepped in in the 1950s, according to their theory