MCLC: street brawl

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: Jacqueline Winter (dujuan99 at gmail.com)
Subject: street brawl
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Source: South China Morning Post (5/13/13):
http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1236762/ai-weiwei-shares-video-be
ijing-street-brawl-between-chinese-and

Ai Weiwei shares video of Beijing street brawl 'between Chinese and
Tibetans'
By Patrick Boehler

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei on Sunday uploaded this video of a
fierce brawl in Beijing's Guijie Street, describing it as a fight between
Tibetan and Han Chinese street vendors.

Beijing-based Tibetan activist Tsering Woeser commented in a tweet [1]
that she discovered that most Tibetan hawkers belonged to the Qiang ethnic
minority from Aba prefecture in Sichuan province.

Around 10,000 Tibetans lived in the capital, a 2011 study estimated
<applewebdata://72A284C4-9273-46FE-B75E-BD84A82EEE90> [2]. They make up a
tiny minority in the megacity of 19.7 million people. According to the
2010 census <applewebdata://72A284C4-9273-46FE-B75E-BD84A82EEE90> [3],
about 4 per cent of Beijing's population, or 800,000 people, belonged to
ethnic minorities, most of whom were Mongolian or Manchurian.

Ethnic tensions are rarely reported in the capital.