Article: Serf's Offsprings Live Happy Life

Article: Changed Life of Former Tibetan Serf Owner (1)
Xinhua English Newswire;  March 9, 1999 ;     450 words ...Soinam Dorje, a former Tibetan serf owner, has said that he did not complain when ... income standing at middle level among the serf-owner class of Tibet. "The Democratic Reform ... the structures of Tibet's serf and serf-owner class and its economy," he said. As ...

Article: China Exclusive: Former manor of Dalai Lama's mother undisturbed ...
Xinhua News Agency;  March 19, 2008 ;     537 words ... ... involvement in the riot that killed 13 innocent people. Shexing village appears to be undisturbed by the violence. Zhoi'ma smiled ... homes. Before Tibet's democratic reform in the 1950s, Shexing village had just 18 families, all of whom were serfs working on ...

Article: FEATURE: Dalai Lama family's former manor celebrate "spring ...
Xinhua News Agency;  March 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... for our homeland to be peaceful." FEUDAL MANOR LOST In Shexing Village today, few people remember the life before 1959, the year ... official for 40 years before he retired last year, moved to Shexing Village to live with his wife's family in 1960. "I just heard ...

Article: Slave trade contracts reveal lack of human rights in serfdom- ...
Xinhua News Agency;  June 8, 2008 ;     646 words ... ... the contracts, made in 1914, showed a serf owner named Gykangba paid his debt to another serf owner Rampa by parting with possession of four ... Tuesday are the contract with which a Tibetan serf owner named Kaqui Tarawa sold her serf Kelsang ...

Article: Farmers in Southern Tibet Becoming Prosperous
Xinhua English Newswire;  July 25, 1996 ;     611 words ... ... total amount of grain he produced for his serf owner during a ten-year period. "Now I ... rented 1.3 hectares of farmland from the serf owner. But after delivering grain as land rents to the serf owner, my father even had to borrow seeds ...

Article: New Life of Former Tibetan Serfs (1)
Xinhua English Newswire;  March 3, 1999 ;     519 words ... ... like house that is comparable to the manor of any former serf owner," said the 65-year-old Tibetan woman, pointing to her ... belonging to themselves and had to rely on renting land from the serf owner and borrowing usurious loans to support the whole family ...

Article: Serfs' emancipation topples dark rule in Tibet: scholar
Xinhua News Agency;  January 21, 2009 ;     641 words ... ... committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region. In old Tibet, the serf-owner class, who made up merely five percent of the Tibetan population ... the one million Tibetan serfs to topple the dark rule of the serf owner class," said Lhagpa Phuntshogs. But those rebellious forces ...