NOTES FROM ACADEME

In China, a Race to Save Tibetan Songs

By PAUL MOONEY

Red Cliff Village, Qinghai

Cairang Ji sits on a bed in the main room of a farmhouse here holding her two grandchildren on her lap as she quietly speaks the verses of an old folk song. Two other grandmothers dutifully repeat the words, heads bent close to one another as if in prayer, each...

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