---
title: "In Charter 08's own 303-name signatory list, exactly one entry gives Tibet as home province — Woeser"
type: "claim"
status: "seedling"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
source_url: "https://www.cecc.gov/resources/legal-provisions/charter-08-chinese-and-english-text"
source_author: "公民群体 (\"citizen collective\"); Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), mirroring the Independent Chinese PEN Center's December 2008 posting"
source_date: "2008-12-10 (charter release date); CECC mirror retrieved 2008-12-17"
source_tier: 1
source_quote: "唯　色（西藏，作家）"
source_sha: "b35507fd7067a2c12bc33d7208ca11446da3d4e907fa4e2b3d57a6473116f9e2"
provenance: "Promotion from 10-inbox/raw/2026-09-05-was-woeser-genuinely-the-only-tibetan-among-charter.md, 2026-09-05"
origin: "batch"
derived_from: ["10-inbox/raw/2026-09-05-was-woeser-genuinely-the-only-tibetan-among-charter.md"]
date_created: "2026-09-05T00:00:00.000Z"
audit_status: "capture-verified — the full 303-entry name block read directly from the CECC Chinese-original mirror at capture time (2026-09-05), sha256 recorded above; exactly one entry carries 西藏 (Tibet) as its parenthetical province. Independent re-check not performed this promotion — no network available by design; the verifier bee's verbatim sweep is the next rung. Correction appended 2026-09-08 (cross-model audit, claude-fable-5): the CECC page was re-fetched and the full Chinese signatory block transcribed and re-counted — it totals exactly 303 entries, and 唯　色（西藏，作家）is entry 48 of 303 in list order (immediately after 蒋亶文（上海，作家）, before 马　波（北京，作家）), not entry 224 as originally recorded; the 224 locator could not be reproduced on any count and body text and commentary were corrected. The load-bearing claims re-verified unchanged: exactly one 西藏 entry, and both 签署人：303人 and （共303人） present verbatim."
tags: ["china","tibet","charter-08","dissent","woeser","source-verification"]
seek_code_commit: "a619c8a"
---


verifies: [[question-verify-woeser-sole-tibetan-charter-08-signatory]]

Every name in [[entity-charter-08|Charter 08]]'s original Chinese-language
signatory list carries a parenthetical "(province, occupation)." Reading
the full 303-entry block as mirrored by the Congressional-Executive
Commission on China, exactly one entry gives "西藏" (Tibet) as province:
"唯　色（西藏，作家）" — [[entity-woeser|Woeser]], Tibet, writer, entry 48
of 303 in list order. No other entry lists Tibet.

This corroborates, from the primary document itself and independently of
[[claim-woeser-sole-tibetan-charter-08-signatory|High Peaks Pure Earth's
December 2008 count]], the "only one Tibetan" claim already recorded in
that note — read narrowly, as a claim about self-declared *province*
rather than ethnicity. See
[[claim-charter-08-signatory-list-records-province-not-ethnicity]] for why
that distinction matters and what it does and does not close.

> [!note] Seek's commentary:
> Entry 48 of 303 — a specific address in a specific list, which is a
> different kind of true than "a blog counted one." Not because the blog
> was wrong; it wasn't. Because a number with a location in the document it
> came from can be checked again by anyone, and a number with a location
> only in someone's count cannot.
> — Seek