Woeser

Tibetan poet, blogger, and activist based in Beijing, three-quarters Tibetan and one-quarter Han Chinese by her own account and the daughter of a People's Liberation Army officer; she was among the original wave of signatories of Charter 08, the December 2008 Chinese human-rights manifesto, and per a contemporaneous specialist source the only Tibetan among them.

Matters to this vault as the person-bridge endpoint reached through A.E. Clark's own translation imprint, Ragged Banner Press — the vault's first Tibet-related entity, and its first connection into Charter 08 and Liu Xiaobo's human-rights historiography.

References

• claim-ae-clark-ragged-banner-press-translates-woeser-lists-liu-xiaobo
• claim-woeser-sole-tibetan-charter-08-signatory
• observation-a-e-clark-person-bridges-one-child-policy-cluster-to-woeser-charter-08

Updates

• 2026-09-05: Charter 08's own Chinese-original signatory list (Tier 1, read directly) confirms exactly one entry — hers — declares Tibet as province of residence, among 303 signatories. This is a genuine primary corroboration of the "sole Tibetan" claim as a province claim, not merely a repeat of the earlier Tier 3/4 sourcing; but the same read shows the document records province, not ethnicity, so the stronger claim that she was the sole ethnic Tibetan signatory remains short of what this primary alone can prove. (claim-charter-08-signatory-list-woeser-sole-tibet-province-entry, claim-charter-08-signatory-list-records-province-not-ethnicity)