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Museums are guardians of historical narratives and play inherently political roles in shaping perceptions across time and space.
-by Inkstick Media
While visiting the Silk Roads exhibit at the British Museum, a seemingly minor detail caught my eye. On one of the plaques about Tibet, the word “Xizang” was also used. Most visitors would likely not even have noticed, but I recognized the inclusion of that word as a deeply political and controversial choice.
I had first learned of the concerted Chinese campaign to start replacing “Tibet” with the word “Xizang” — the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin word for Tibet — last year, during research for a story on Dr. Gyal Lo, a scholar and expert on the colonial-style Tibetan boarding schools. During our interview, I asked him about a video I had seen circulating on s...
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