What is the price of development? On top of the necessary capital, there has also been a social and a cultural cost to China’s economic boom — one that has left marginalized communities and ethnicities behind and sullied China’s international reputation. Nowhere has this been more obvious in recent years than in Xinjiang, where hundreds of thousands of ethnic Uighurs have been interred in re-education camps to eradicate their culture. But it is also happening in Tibet, where this month’s
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