{"id":13059,"date":"2024-10-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/nieuws\/unfortunate-clumsiness-musee-du-quai-branly-to-stop-using-the-term-xizang-to-refer-to-tibet\/"},"modified":"2024-10-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T22:00:00","slug":"unfortunate-clumsiness-musee-du-quai-branly-to-stop-using-the-term-xizang-to-refer-to-tibet","status":"publish","type":"nieuws","link":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/unfortunate-clumsiness-musee-du-quai-branly-to-stop-using-the-term-xizang-to-refer-to-tibet\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cUnfortunate clumsiness\u201d: Mus\u00e9e du Quai Branly to stop using the term \u201cXizang\u201d to refer to Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Paris \u2013<\/strong> On 1 October, the LDH (Ligue des droits de l\u2019Homme), FIDH and International Campaign for Tibet met with the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mus\u00e9e du Quai Branly, Mr. Emmanuel Kasarh\u00e9rou, and the Director of Heritage and Collections, Ms. Anne-Sol\u00e8ne Roland, following a <a href=\"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/FIDH-LDH-ICT-Lettre-au-Muse%CC%81e-du-Quai-Branly.pdf\">joint letter<\/a> sent on 11 September. During the meeting, Mr. Kasarh\u00e9rou gave assurances that the term \u201cXizang Autonomous Region\u201d would be entirely removed from the catalog and labels of the permanent exhibition by the end of October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Representatives of the Mus\u00e9e du Quai Branly explained that the term \u201cXizang Autonomous Region\u201d had been included in their database since 2018 for internal use (for the traceability of collections) and that its appearance in public catalogs and on labels for the permanent exhibition was due to a technical problem that was an \u201cunfortunate blunder\u201d and \u201cerror,\u201d which had infiltrated against the policy put in place by the Museum, of openness and dialogue towards the populations of the regions from which the works originated. No pressure was brought to bear by the Chinese authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vincent Metten, EU Policy Director for the International Campaign for Tibet, said: \u201cWe welcome the Mus\u00e9e du Quai Branly\u2019s decision to remove the term \u201cXizang Autonomous Region\u201d from its public catalog and cartels. We hope that the Mus\u00e9e Guimet will also revise its terminology and use \u201cTibet\u201d instead of \u201cHimalayan World\u201d in exhibitions featuring Tibetan art. It is essential that international museums resist Beijing\u2019s efforts to erase the name Tibet and continue to refer to Tibet in their public communications. In Tibet, an aggressive assimilation policy imposed by the Chinese Communist Party threatens to eradicate not only the term \u201cTibet\u201d, but the entire culture and identity of the Tibetan people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nathalie Tehio, President of the French Human Rights League (LDH) said: \u201cIt is understandable that Tibetans may suspect a priori that the Chinese authorities are pressuring French museums to remove the term Tibet from their collections, in view of the repression they face and the imposed policy of assimilation aimed at erasing their identity and culture. French museums must be vigilant not to feed this suspicion, even inadvertently. They must also resist attempts to erase threatened and repressed peoples around the world, where they exist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Antoine Madelin, Director of International Advocacy for the FIDH, adds: \u201cThe voices of Tibetans, who have borne the full brunt of the Chinese regime\u2019s repression since the invasion of Tibet over 70 years ago, must be heard. After the Mus\u00e9e du Quai Branly, we invite the Mus\u00e9e Guimet to engage in a dialogue with the Tibetan community, to best represent the objects from its collections.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/malheureuse-maladresse-le-quai-branly-cessera-dutiliser-le-terme-xizang-pour-parler-du-tibet\/\">Press statement in French<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the Mus\u00e9e du Quai Branly confirms that the term \u201cXizang\u201d used by Beijing in place of \u201cTibet\u201d will be withdrawn from its public catalogs and cartels by the end of October. The museum had been using the term internally since 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13058,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categorie":[691],"news_tag":[720],"class_list":["post-13059","nieuws","type-nieuws","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie-news","news_tag-chinese-influence-and-propagandaeurope-and-tibet"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u201cUnfortunate clumsiness\u201d: Mus\u00e9e du Quai Branly to stop using the term \u201cXizang\u201d to refer to Tibet - Campaign for Tibet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/unfortunate-clumsiness-musee-du-quai-branly-to-stop-using-the-term-xizang-to-refer-to-tibet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cUnfortunate clumsiness\u201d: Mus\u00e9e du Quai Branly to stop using the term \u201cXizang\u201d to refer to Tibet - Campaign for Tibet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The president of the Mus\u00e9e du Quai Branly confirms that the term \u201cXizang\u201d used by Beijing in place of \u201cTibet\u201d will be withdrawn from its public catalogs and cartels by the end of October. 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