High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written on February 10, 2013 for the Mandarin service of Radio Free Asia, as well as the Tibetan service and published on her blog on February 11, 2013. Following on from the last translation where Woeser looked back on the year 2012, the post below turns to Losar (Tibetan New [...]

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written between December 27, 2012 and January 1, 2013 for the Mandarin service of Radio Free Asia, as well as the Tibetan service and published on her blog on January 3, 2013. The blogpost is a look back on 2012 and, despite being several months old, is still a moving read. [...]

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written on December 20, 2012 for the Tibetan service of Radio Free Asia and published on her blog on December 26, 2012. In this blogpost, Woeser highlights foreign media reporting on the self-immolations in Tibet, specifically efforts by French journalists to travel in Tibet and visit areas directly affected by [...]

High Peaks Pure Earth is very grateful to Elliot Sperling for his translation of a blogpost by Woeser originally written for the Mandarin service of Radio Free Asia on May 4, revised on May 6 and posted on her blog on May 7, 2013. The blogpost is an appeal to save Lhasa from destructive modernisation and has already attracted media [...]

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written on February 5, 2013, for both the Tibetan service and Mandarin service of Radio Free Asia and published on her blog on February 6, 2013. The subject of Woeser’s piece is the CCTV-produced TV drama “Secret Tibet”, previously featured on High Peaks Pure Earth in February when we translated [...]

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated an announcement by Woeser about the electronic Tibetan version of her book “Forbidden Memory: Tibet During the Cultural Revolution”. The blogpost was published on Woeser’s blog on March 31, 2013. “The Tibetan Version of ‘Forbidden Memory: Tibet During the Cultural Revolution’ Is Now Available for Download Free of Charge” By Woeser Since 1999, based [...]

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written in September 2012, for the Tibetan service of Radio Free Asia and published on her blog on January 9, 2013. The post focuses on recent increased measures to “maintain stability” in Tibet Autonomous Region, also noticed by Human Rights Watch as detailed at length in their report of March [...]

High Peaks Pure Earth presents an English translation of a blogpost by Woeser written on March 30, 2013, and published on her blog on the same day. The blogpost was written by Woeser in immediate response to the fatal landslide in Gyama Valley in central Tibet that engulfed a gold mining area. As mentioned in the blogpost, Woeser has long [...]

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written on December 2, 2012, for the Tibetan service of Radio Free Asia and published on her blog on December 19, 2012. The post was published in two parts on Woeser’s blog with the title “Notes from Leaving Lhasa”, the first part “Humanisation” and “Hype” was published earlier this week [...]

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written on December 2, 2012, for the Tibetan service of Radio Free Asia and published on her blog on December 19, 2012. The post was published in two parts on Woeser’s blog, the second part will be published on High Peaks Pure Earth on Thursday and can be seen as a [...]