China’s “Comfortable Housing Program” aims to modernize Tibetan society, whether they like it or not.
“In the new settlements, cookie-cutter houses line the roads at regular intervals, striking in their uniformity. The settlements varied in size but were mostly towns, larger than the abandoned villages. The red flag of China flew atop every house.” Stalinism redux? ”It's created a building boom," said Melvyn C. Goldstein, a social anthropologist and expert on Tibet at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. "I think it's phenomenally successful, more than I would've believed."
McClatchy + A/V slideshow | Johnson’s blog | M. C. Goldstein
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