NEW YORK, August 8, 2023 — Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick discusses her most recent book, Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Tow, which portrays the struggle of modern-day Tibetans in China, fighting to preserve their cultural, religious, and linguistic identity against a relentless superpower that enforces forced assimilation in state-run residential schools. Asia Society Chief Programming Officer Philipp Ivanov moderated the conversation. (1 hr., 6 min.)