{"title":"Tsering Woeser","description":"Tsering Woeser is a Tibetan poet and essayist. She is the most prominent commentator on the Tibet issue still living within China and has written twenty-one books in Chinese, with eighteen translations of her work published in nine other languages, including Voices from Tibet, Tibet on Fire, and two others in English. Woeser has received the Prince Claus Award from the Netherlands and the U.S. Department of State's International Women of Courage Award. She lives under close surveillance in Beijing. Tsering Dorje (1937-91) was a Tibetan officer in the People's Liberation Army who served in Tibet during the Cultural Revolution. Robert Barnett is a leading scholar of modern Tibetan history and politics who founded and directed the Modern Tibetan Studies program at Columbia from 2000 until 2017. His books include Lhasa: Streets with Memories, and he is currently a professorial research associate at SOAS, University of London. Susan T. Chen is a longtime collaborator with Tsering Woeser and translator of her work. She received her PhD in contemporary Tibetan culture from Emory University and is visiting assistant professor of history at Wingate University in North Carolina.","products":[{"product_id":"forbidden-memory-tibet-during-the-cultural-revolution-hardcover","title":"Forbidden Memory: Tibet During the Cultural Revolution - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eAccess the glossary of Tibetan terms. \u003cbr\u003eAccess the glossary of Chinese and English terms. \u003cbr\u003eAccess the Index. When Red Guards arrived in Tibet in 1966, intent on creating a classless society, they unleashed a decade of revolutionary violence, political rallies, and factional warfare marked by the ransacking of temples, the destruction of religious artifacts, the burning of books, and the public humiliation of Tibet's remaining lamas and scholars. Within Tibet, discussion of those events has long been banned, and no visual records of this history were known to have survived. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eForbidden Memory\u003c\/i\u003e the leading Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser presents three hundred previously unseen photographs taken by her father, then an officer in the People's Liberation Army, that show for the first time the frenzy and violence of the Cultural Revolution in Tibet. Found only after his death, Woeser's annotations and reflections on the photographs, edited and introduced by the Tibet historian Robert Barnett, are based on scores of interviews she conducted privately in Tibet with survivors. Her book explores the motives and thinking of those who participated in the extraordinary rituals of public degradation and destruction that took place, carried out by Tibetans as much as Chinese on the former leaders of their culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Heartbreaking and revelatory, \u003ci\u003eForbidden Memory\u003c\/i\u003e offers a personal, literary discussion of the nature of memory, violence, and responsibility, while giving insight into the condition of a people whose violently truncated history they are still unable to discuss today.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367722549471,"sku":"9781612349695","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/qxX2GvqY319781612349695.webp?v=1789113377"},{"product_id":"ocean-as-much-as-rain-stories-lyrical-prose-and-poems-from-tibet-paperback","title":"Ocean, as Much as Rain: Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from Tibet - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOcean, as Much as Rain\u003c\/i\u003e presents for the first time in the English-language world a collection of masterfully translated literary writings by prominent Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser. In these stories, lyrical essays, and poetry, Woeser interweaves texts, photographs, silences, and documentary details. Featuring a distinctively imaginative use of satire and digressive rhetoric, Woeser's stories bring to life Tibetan characters whose lives are entwined with politics, history, and religion. Woeser illuminates the ruins and places that she has come across during her various sojourns in Chinese-ruled Tibet, reviving sites from the past of her parents and their generation. These writings range from ingenious retellings of cultural encounters and confrontation to insightful commentaries on ecological issues and tourism in Tibet that never shun contradictions, dilemmas, or questions about the future. With an introduction by Fiona Sze-Lorrain and an author interview by editors-translators Sze-Lorrain and Dechen Pemba, \u003ci\u003eOcean, as Much as Rain\u003c\/i\u003e is a landmark publication that celebrates the work of a steadfast dissident and a leading Tibetan literary figure of our times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376765010143,"sku":"9781478033110","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/MjYTM513t29781478033110.webp?v=1789225278"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/tsering-woeser.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}