ABSTRACT
This chapter summarises the educational and career opportunities open to Tibetan women who were born and grew up after the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region as part of China and after the Cultural Revolution. Sanye, born in 1969, describes the backgrounds of her parents, both from poor sheep herding families, and tells of their incarceration during the Cultural Revolution when she and her siblings were not allowed to attend school. Sanye did go on to university and was assigned work as a translator from Chinese to Tibetan. She is also determined to provide the mostly illiterate Tibetan women in remote areas material on gynaecological and other medical problems that women face, as well as women’s rights. Born around the same time as Sanye, Nimacuo is from a nomadic area in Qinghai province. She was one of the 20 per cent of Tibetan girls to continue in high school beyond the (marriageable) age of 15 and gained a scholarship to study English at university in Xining. After graduation, she returned to her home locality to teach English to the next generation of Tibetan children.
