High Peaks Pure Earth presents a guest post by Thubten Samphel*. The guest post is a book review of “Yak Horns”, the most recent publication by Tibetan writer Bhuchung D. Sonam. This new Book Reviews section on High Peaks Pure Earth is a place where we will publish reviews of writings by Tibetans which are also relevant to this site. “Yak [...]

Newspaper headlines describe Woeser as Tibet’s most famous woman writer and blogger and a lone Tibetan voice, intent on speaking out. Until now, Woeser has perhaps been best known as a Tibetan dissident writer whose blogs are banned and have either been repeatedly shut down in China or hacked by Chinese nationalists. Her collection of poems, short stories and essays [...]