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Ugen

Ugen is a Tibetan student from the Amdo region, now in exile and studying at a university in the United States.

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Tibet's postal protest

China's government claims it is protecting Tibet's culture, but Tibetan activists find their tongues tied by Chinese bureaucratic knots. Ugen, an exile from the Ando region, proposes a novel form of dissent

(This article was first published on 4 November 2005)