Tsering Woeser

Tsering Woeser studied at Southwest Minzu University. The recorded working language is Standard Chinese, Chinese and Central Tibetan. Places of work recorded in the authority are Tibet and Tibet Autonomous Region. Works named in the authority record are Forbidden Memory.Tibet during the Cultural Revolution, Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule and Amnyé Machen, Amnyé Machen. Distinctions recorded are International Women of Courage Award, Courage in Journalism Award and Prince Claus Award.

• Name — Tsering Woeser • Born — 21 July 1966 • Birthplace — Lhasa • Occupation — Writer • Language — Chinese, Tibetan • Ethnicity: Tibetan • Education — Southwest University for Nationalities • Genre — Short story, poetry, essays • Notable Works — Notes on Tibet • Spouse — Wang Lixiong • Awards — Prince Claus Awards; International Women of Courage Award[22]

Woeser, a quarter Han Chinese and three quarters Tibetan, was born in Lhasa. Her grandfather, Chinese, was an officer in the Nationalist Army of the Kuomintang and her father was a high rank Army officer in the People's Liberation Army.[3] When she was very young, her family relocated to the Kham area of western Sichuan province. In 1988, she graduated from Southwest University for Nationalities in Chengdu with a degree in Chinese literature. She worked as a reporter in Garzê and later in Lhasa and has lived in Beijing since 2003 as a result of political problems. Woeser is married to Wang Lixiong, a renowned author who frequently writes about Tibet. According to Reporters Without Borders, "Woeser is one of the few Tibetan authors and poets to write in Chinese."[4] When the government refused to give her a passport, she sued the authorities.[5]

• Illustration — Video to honor Woeser by the Prince Claus Fund for her 2011 award Woeser is the author of the book, Notes on Tibet. The Tibet Information Network quotes unnamed sources that the book was banned by the government around September 2003.[6] According to UNPO, shortly after the alleged ban, Woeser was also fired from her job and lost her status with her work unit.[7] Radio Free Asia reported that she continued to post a variety of poems and articles to her two blogs: Maroon Map (oser.tibetcul.net), which, according to the author, was visited primarily by Tibetans and the Woeser blog (blog.daqi.com/weise), which was visited primarily by those of Han ethnicity. According to RFA, on July 28, 2006, both blogs were closed by order of the government, apparently in response to postings in which she expressed birthday greetings to the Dalai Lama and touched on other sensitive topics. Woeser stated that she would continue writing and speaking.[8] • Illustration — Woeser in her Beijing apartment in 2009 in front of her Tibetan Buddhist altar During the Tibetan unrest of 2008, Woeser and her husband were put under house arrest after speaking to reporters.[9] In December 2008, Woeser and her husband were among the first of the original 303 signatories to Charter 08,[10] since joined by thousands more.[12] Liu Xiaobo, the author of Charter 08, was sentenced for eleven years of prison and awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.[13] In July 2009, Woeser and her husband were one of more than 100 signatories to a petition asking Chinese authorities to release detained ethnic-Uyghur professor of economics Ilham Tohti.[14] When she was awarded the Prince Claus Award in 2011, she was forbidden to receive the prize in the Dutch embassy.[15] Tsering Woeser defended Tibetan actions in the 1905 Tibetan Rebellion, saying that Zhao Erfeng invaded the region to "brutally stop Tibetan protests", listing atrocities committed by Zhao.[16] Her "Garpon La's Offerings," translated by Dechen Pemba and Fiona Sze-Lorrain, appeared in The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays.[17]

•; Woeser's First poetry Edition •. Also published in Taiwan as. * •; also published by China Tourism Press in 2004,. * * • Tibet's True Heart. Selected Poems. Dobbs Ferry, NY, 2008 (Ragged Banner Press Excerpts),. Poems by Woeser (Weise), translated by A. E. Clark, Review 10−10−2008 (highpeakspureearth.com) Review 10−10−2008 (savetibet.org) • Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule Verso, London (2016)[23] • Forbidden Memory Tibet during the Cultural Revolution English edition, published 2020 by University of Nebraska Press, By Tsering Woeser, Photographs by Tsering Dorje, Edited by Robert Barnett, Translated by Susan T. Chen, Foreword by Wang Lixiong. • Ocean, as Much as Rain: Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from Tibet, By Tsering Woeser, Translated and Edited by Fiona Sze-Lorrain with Dechen Pemba, Foreword by Pankaj Mishra, Duke University Press (2026)

The authorities additionally record the headings Öser, Woeser, Weise and Oiser. Her recorded languages were Standard Chinese, Chinese and Central Tibetan. Her recorded confession was Tibetan Buddhism. She was the child of Cheng Kuande and Tsering Youdron. She married Wang Lixiong. Work and production. Works recorded as notable number 3: Forbidden Memory.Tibet during the Cultural Revolution, Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule and Amnyé Machen, Amnyé Machen.