Profile: Tsering Woeser, Tibet's courageous poet

Yesterday, while spending her time in house arrest in Beijing, poet and dissident Tsering Woeser was honoured by president Obama. She was born in Lhasa, Tibet, but grew up in Sichuan province and was educated in Chinese—she speaks Tibetan but never learned to read and write in her native language. Her parents were Tibetan, but they were also members of the Chinese Communist Party.

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