Gu Jiegang News Today

Chinas discovery of archaeological sites in Tibet from pre-historic periods is used as proof destroying the narrative of Lhasa having its own history and giving emphasis on the fact that it was always an integral part of Beijing.

Foreword

1.As Beijing prepared to host the 2008 Olympics, a small drama was unfolding in Hong Kong. Two years earlier, middlemen had come into possession of a batch of waterlogged manuscripts that had been unearthed by tomb robbers in south-central China. The documents had been smuggled to Hong Kong and were lying in a vault, waiting for a buyer.Universities and museums around the