Feature: From serfdom to freedom, new life arising from old Xizang manor

by Xinhua writers Liu Zhoupeng, Lyu Qiuping and Bai Mingshan

LHASA, March 21 (Xinhua) -- Had it not been for democratic reform 65 years ago, Tseten from southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region would have been sold by his master and separated from his parents.

At 13, an age when serf children were traded among manors, the Tibetan boy was about to be brought to the market for trading when democratic refo