When Tibet Loved China

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

JANUARY 22, 2013

There are still some people who remember this woman, writes Woeser. She came from a family of wealth and power, but gave it all up to become a nun. The poster, written in Tibetan, accuses her of being a "counter-revolutionary."

 

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.