Palden Gyal

Palden Gyal is a PhD candidate in Modern Tibetan and Late Imperial Chinese history at Columbia University.

Refusal and responsibility: The predicament and precarity of Tibetan intellectuals in China

According to Michel Foucault "the intellectual was rejected and persecuted …when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes." The thick mist of the pandemic

By Palden Gyal

/ 26 Aug 2022

Refusal and responsibility: The predicament and precarity of Tibetan intellectuals in China

‘Locale of fear and ferocity’: On the Tibetan poet Theurang’s works

In a poignant letter to his sister from Mianyang prison in southwestern China, Tibetan poet Tashi Rabten, popularly known as Theurang, asks: "Are there any people more unfortunate than

By Palden Gyal

/ 27 Jan 2022

‘Locale of fear and ferocity’: On the Tibetan poet Theurang’s works