WELCOME TANG DANHONG TO THE DIALOGUE--A HAN CHINESE WHO UNDERSTANDS THE TIBETAN SITUATION

Last week, Grace Wang made the headlines of The New York Times at Duke University when she attempted to interject the spirit of dialogue into the vitriolic debates occurring on her campus between the Tibetan supporters and the Chinese.  Welcome now, Tang Danhong, a Han Chinese and filmmaker currently living in Israel.  Her essay, which originally appeared on her Chinese-language blog and is now available here at the Tibetan Women's Association website, is a model in many ways.  It's a moving appeal for human equality coming from someone with first-hand experience of the struggle from both the Tibetan and the Chinese sides.  We can only hope that more people like Tang Danhong will step forward and let their voices be heard.