Woeser is a poet, writer, and blogger. She was born in Lhasa in 1966 and now lives in Beijing with her husband Wang Lixiong. Her books include Notes on Tibet (2003) and Forbidden Memory: Tibet During the Cultural Revolution (2006). Her blog is here Her latest book of poems is Tibet's True Heart (Ragged Banner, 2008), translated from the Chinese by AE Clark. For more information and/or to order the book, click here
openAwakening in conjunction with the University of East London is organizing a three-part event series on ‘The Tahrir Square Meme’ to be held at UEL's Dockland Campus.
Our first event is Rap and the Arab Spring.
Read Anthony Barnett's lecture for the Raymond Williams Society and his foreword to the new edition of The Long Revolution:
The Long Revolution Raymond Williams
Jim Gabour Sunday Comics
James Warner Standing Perpendicular, as books do
Markha Valenta Inter Alia: religion, politics, culture
Paul Rogers on Global security
Li Datong on China from the inside
Mary Kaldor on Human security
Daniele Archibugi on Cosmopolitan democracy
