Phurjung (front) poses with his son Ngodrup (1st R, back), his daughter-in-law Qoizong (1st L, back) and his granddaughter ...

Losang, along with some one million serfs, gained freedom after Xizang's democratic reform in 1959, which shattered the ...

Feudal serfdom was a social system established by lords in feudal society to exploit serfs living in their territories.

SHANNAN, March 26 (Xinhua) — Yudron is a 90-plus-year-old villager living in Samyai Town of Shannan City, southwest China's ...

"The democratic reform in Xizang completely shattered the feudal serfdom system that had enslaved the Tibetan people for ...

Padma was 17 when the democratic reform was introduced in Xizang in 1959. Before the reform, the region had been ruled by ...

Instead, we've become masters of our own lives," Padma told Beijing Review. After the reform, he received professional training and became a village veterinarian in 1963. "We work for ourselves and ...