CONTENTS OF TIBETAN REVIEW - OCTOBER 1997

TIBET NEWS: Tibetan culture declared “Non-Buddhist”; Dalai Lama targeting intensified; 9 years for writing a prisoner list; Chadrel Rinpoche in high security secret prison

OUTSIDE TIBET: China swallowing Tibet, warns US Congressman; Tibet situation veering towards violence, warns mission; Swiss and German delegations visit Tibet; Dalai Lama attends Prague conference, visits Italy; A fruitful Italian visit; Statement of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the demise of Mother Teresa; Taiwan approves Tibet office; Dalai Lama greets India on golden jubilee; Tibetan lamas offer fire puja for India; Music stars call for Choephel’s release; Exile Tibetans celebrate democracy

EDUCATION: Medical college seat for Tibetans: Reservation within reservation, by Thondup Tsering

ARCHITECTURE: Potala, the national architecture of Tibet, by Michael Carrington

REFERENDUM: Where are the conditions for holding a referendum? by Tseten Norbu

BOOK REVIEW: Kundun: A biography of the family of the Dalai Lama, by Mary Craig; Dolma ling, A Pilgrim’s Progress Across the Himalayas, by Lucas Myers

CHINA WATCH: Challenges ahead for Jiang Zemin, The Economist, Sep 21-27; China to bury economic socialism all but in name, Time magazine, Sep 22; Is the CCP in the throes of an upheaval?TOI, Sep 15; McDonald’s price of doing business in Beijing, The Wall Street Journal, Sep 7; Academic’s fate could signal party’s direction, FEER, Aug 21

LETTERS: Making women’s reproductive rights count; A question of reality; A settlement in neglect

EDITORIAL: From “Bamboo Curtain” to “iron mask”