When Tibet Loved China

Rare photos of the Cultural Revolution in the Land of Snows.

JANUARY 22, 2013

Tibetans burn Buddhist holy scriptures. It's unclear, says Woeser, who are the fire-starters and who are the onlookers.

 

Tsering Woeser is a Tibetan poet, writer, and blogger living in Beijing. The photographs were taken by her father, Tsering Dorjee, and published in Woeser's 2006 book, Forbidden Memory: Tibet During the Cultural Revolution. Text by associate editor Isaac Stone Fish.