{"id":37895,"date":"2009-04-25T07:43:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T14:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=37895"},"modified":"2009-04-25T12:39:37","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T19:39:37","slug":"a-tibetan-blogger-always-under-close-watch-struggles-for-visibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/04\/a-tibetan-blogger-always-under-close-watch-struggles-for-visibility\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tibetan Blogger, Always Under Close Watch, Struggles for Visibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/25\/world\/asia\/25woeser.html\"><strong>The New York Times interviews<\/strong><\/a> Tibetan blogger Woeser:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA graceful, soft-spoken woman whose disquieting tales are often punctuated by nervous laughter, Ms. Woeser has become an accidental hero to a generation of disenfranchised young Tibetans. Like many of her peers, she was schooled in Mandarin, part of a policy of assimilation that left her unable to write Tibetan, and she grew up embracing the official version of history \u2014 that the Communist Party brought freedom and prosperity to a backward land.<\/p>\n<p>HER pedigree is all the more notable because her father, the son of a Han father and a Tibetan mother, was a deputy general in the Chinese Army who oversaw Lhasa.<\/p>\n<p>It was only at 24, after seven years studying Chinese poetry and literature, that she reconnected with her Tibetan DNA. During a visit to Lhasa, an aunt dragged her to the Jokhang Monastery, one of Tibetan Buddhism\u2019s holiest sites, and she found herself overwhelmed by the emotional intensity of the faithful. \u201cI was crying so loudly a monk told my aunt, \u2018Look at that pathetic Chinese girl, she can\u2019t control herself.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was that moment I realized I had come home,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times interviews Tibetan blogger Woeser: A graceful, soft-spoken woman whose disquieting tales are often punctuated by nervous laughter, Ms. Woeser has become an accidental hero to a generation of disenfranchised young Tibetans. 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