Feudal serfdom was a social system established by lords in feudal society to exploit serfs living in their territories. According to French historian Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch, the defining ...

Losang, along with some one million serfs, gained freedom after Xizang's democratic reform in 1959, which shattered the centuries-old feudal theocratic serfdom. "No longer do we have to bow to the ...

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Before the reform, the region had been ruled by feudal serfdom under a theocracy for centuries. Nearly 1 million serfs were subjected to estate-holders' cruel exploitation and oppression.

Phurjung (front) poses with his son Ngodrup (1st R, back), his daughter-in-law Qoizong (1st L, back) and his granddaughter Qime Lhamo at home in Samdrutse district of Xigaze City, southwest China's ...

In March 1959, people in Xizang launched the democratic reform that ended the region's feudal serf system, freeing a million serfs. According to a Xinhua report, multiple grand celebrations and ...

[Photo/Xinhua] Feudal serfdom was a social system established by lords in feudal society to exploit serfs living in their territories. According to French historian Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch ...