Ending the year on a lighter note, High Peaks Pure Earth presents this English translation of an interesting Chinese language post that has been circulating on social media and apps such as WeChat recently.

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a rather bold and surprising statement made by a collective of Tibetan journalists online earlier this month.

High Peaks Pure Earth is grateful to scholar Elliot Sperling for his quick translation of a Facebook post by Woeser of July 8, 2014, documenting the circumstances behind her and her husband Wang Lixiong’s house arrest in Beijing.

High Peaks Pure Earth presents the Summer 2014 Reading List – books on all aspects of Tibet!

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written in December 2013 and January 2014 for the Mandarin service of Radio Free Asia and published on her blog on January 8, 2014.

On International Mother Language Day 2014 today, High Peaks Pure Earth presents the English translation of a blogpost that provides a good summary of a speech on education in Tibet by Jigme Gyaltsen. The opinions were posted to a Tibetan language blog on January 24, 2014.

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written on December 1, 2013 for the Mandarin service of Radio Free Asia and published on her blog on December 10, 2013. The blogpost is about Tibetan filmmakers Dhondup Wangchen and Golog Jigme, both of whom Woeser has written about before. Dhondup Wangchen is currently serving the final year of […]

  High Peaks Pure Earth is happy to see so many Tibet-related publications come out just over the past few months! Since our Summer reading list, there are lots of new books to update you all on. Some of these would make great holiday reading whilst some are academic titles but we hope that you find something of interest nonetheless.

High Peaks Pure Earth has strayed from the usual material and this time translated an article by Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) Chen Quanguo that was published in the primary theoretical journal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party “Qiushi” (literally meaning Seeking Truth) and was posted online on their website on November 1, 2013.

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written on October 17, 2013 announcing the publication of her new book in France by publishers Indigène Éditions.