{"id":168870,"date":"2014-02-11T19:57:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T03:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=168870"},"modified":"2014-02-12T08:50:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T16:50:13","slug":"woeser-voice-tibet-china-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/woeser-voice-tibet-china-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Woeser: The Voice of Tibet for China and the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s episode of PRI&#8217;s The World profiles\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/shanghaiist.com\/2012\/03\/01\/woeser-prince-claus-arrest.php\">frequently<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/06\/woeser-under-house-arrest-once-again\/\">house-arrested<\/a> Tibetan blogger and activist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/woeser\/\">Tsering Woeser<\/a>, who along with her husband <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/wang-lixiong\/\">Wang Lixiong<\/a> recently published the book <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=XioWAgAAQBAJ&amp;source=productsearch&amp;utm_source=HA_Desktop_US&amp;utm_medium=SEM&amp;utm_campaign=PLA&amp;pcampaignid=MKTAD0930BO1\"><em>Voices From Tibet: Selected Essays and Reportage<\/em><\/a>. Amid a wave of Tibetan protests by self-immolation, Woeser has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/03\/woeser-calls-for-self-immolations-to-end\/\">called for Tibetans to cease the practice<\/a>, and has been <a href=\"http:\/\/woeser.middle-way.net\/\">diligently keeping record of immolators and documenting the repressive atmosphere in Tibetan regions of China<\/a> on her blog (<a href=\"http:\/\/highpeakspureearth.com\/category\/woeser\/\">English translations of many of her posts<\/a> can be found at High Peaks Pure Earth). The World&#8217;s profile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2014-02-11\/woman-voice-tibet-china-and-world\"><strong>focuses on Woeser&#8217;s persistence and how her use of the Chinese language makes her a unique figure<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/node\/63210\/embedded\" height=\"76\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2014-02-11\/woman-voice-tibet-china-and-world\">Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>126 Tibetans have <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/self-immolations\/\">self-immolated in protest of Beijing&#8217;s policies<\/a> since 2009, the <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/rfa-reports-first-tibetan-self-immolation-2014\/\">most recent of which occurred on February 5<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s episode of PRI&#8217;s The World profiles\u00a0the frequently house-arrested Tibetan blogger and activist\u00a0Tsering Woeser, who along with her husband Wang Lixiong recently published the book Voices From Tibet: Selected Essays and Reportage. Amid a wave of Tibetan protests by self-immolation, Woeser has\u00a0called for Tibetans to cease the practice, and has been diligently keeping record of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":985,"featured_media":168873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,34,14744,14745,14746,100,5],"tags":[28,15009,69,6582,4765,3619],"class_list":["post-168870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-human-rights","category-level-2-article","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-politics","category-society","tag-public-intellectuals","tag-self-immolations","tag-tibet","tag-tibet-protests","tag-tibetans","tag-woeser","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Woeser: The Voice of Tibet for China and the World<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/woeser-voice-tibet-china-world\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Woeser: The Voice of Tibet for China and the World\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today&#8217;s episode of PRI&#8217;s The World profiles\u00a0the frequently house-arrested Tibetan blogger and activist\u00a0Tsering Woeser, who along with her husband Wang Lixiong recently published the book Voices From Tibet: Selected Essays and Reportage. 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