page_title: Tsering Woeser
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Tsering Woeser / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Tsering Woeser
context_page_description: Tsering Woeser is a Tibetan activist, blogger, poet and essayist. She lives in China.
context_section_description: Woeser is a quarter Han and three quarters Tibetan.  She was born in Lhasa. Her grandfather as a Han ethnic.  He was an officer in the Nationalist Army of the Kuomintang.  Her father was a high ranking Army officer in the People's Liberation Army.
  When Woeser was a small child, her family moved to the Kham area of western Sichuan province. In 1988, she graduated from Southwest University for Nationalities in Chengdu with a degree in Chinese literature. She worked as a reporter in Kardzé and later worked in Lhasa.  In 2003, she moved to Beijing because of political problems. Woeser is married to Wang Lixiong, a famous author.   Lixiong often writes about Tibet.  According to Reporters sans frontières, "Woeser is one of the few Tibetan authors and poets to write in Chinese."  Because the government refused to give Woeser a passport, Woeser sued the government.
caption: Tsering Woeser in 2009.
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