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Uyghur Historian Kahar Barat Discusses Xinjiang History, Part 1

Posted on July 26, 2010 under History of Xinjiang

Uyghur Scholar Kahar Barat Wang Lixiong Two extremely compelling and intriguing voices on Xinjiang issues today are those of Wang Lixiong and Kahar Barat. Married to Woeser, an outspoken Tibetan blogger and rights advocate, Wang [...]

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Diaspora Uyghurs in America, Norway on Norway Terror Plot

Posted on July 17, 2010 under Xinjiang in the News

A week ago Norway unpleasantly discovered that it, too, Nobel Peace Prizes and fjords and all, was a potential target for Al-Qaeda planned terrorist attacks. Norway’s security apparatuses revealed that they had successfully apprehended three [...]

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Our website is a prominent “node” in online “Uyghur Issue Networks”

Posted on July 11, 2010 under Uyghurs and Information Society

Last month, Professor Yu-Wen Chen of the University of Konstanz published a fascinating and illuminating study on a little-studied aspect of global Uyghur activism: a hyperlink analysis of websites on Uyghur issues with the intent [...]

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Translation: Public Security Foils “East Turkestan Islamic Movement” Terrorist Plot

Posted on June 24, 2010 under Translations into English , Xinjiang in the News

A few hours ago, Public Security spokesperson Wu Heping held a news conference to divulge details on an alleged Uyghur terrorist plot that apparently was foiled by Public Security forces recently. The most comprehensive Mandarin-language report [...]

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Color-coded Guide to Eastern Provinces-to-Xinjiang Economic Aid Pairing

Posted on June 10, 2010 under Politics in Xinjiang

Part of the major support package unveiled by the central government on May 20 is a plan to pair  China’s wealthier provinces and municipalities of the East to jurisdictions in Xinjiang. Just recently, the Beijing [...]

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Blogger Sends Refreshingly Thoughtful Reflections and Suggestions to Secretary Zhang

Posted on May 30, 2010 under Politics in Xinjiang , Society and Culture in Xinjiang , Translations into English

I hope anyone and everyone interested in social justice and ethnic issues in China will take the time to read the letter a Hui individual in Xinjiang has sent to the new Secretary, Zhang Chunxian. [...]

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Uyghur Signage Gets a Facelift in Urumqi After Riots

Posted on May 22, 2010 under Language in Xinjiang

In Xinjiang, there’s a common saying among Uyghurs that “Chinese characters are the eyes, and Uyghur characters are just the eyebrows.” If I remember the Uyghur correctly–don’t quote me here–I believe it’s something along the [...]

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Guangdong TV News Blurb on Opening of Xinjiang Internet

Posted on May 14, 2010 under Video and Audio Material , Xinjiang in the News

From an article at QQ, here’s a blurb of a TV report, apparently named “Morning in Guangdong” (广东早晨) that briefly mentioned the opening of Internet in Xinjiang.  

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Translation: Diligently Protect a Healthy and Open Internet Environment

Posted on May 14, 2010 under Translations into English , Xinjiang in the News

Along with the “Open Letter” to Xinjiang Netizens, Tianshan Net also published an article by a commentator on the significance of the reopening of the Internet and the responsibilities expected of netizens now that everything [...]

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Translation: An Open Letter to All Netizen Friends Throughout Xinjiang

Posted on May 14, 2010 under Translations into English , Xinjiang in the News

As part of the announcement of the reopening of the Internet in Xinjiang, the regional government wrote an “Open Letter” to the Internet users of Xinjiang. Below is our translation of the letter.

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Xinjiang Internet: Restored

Posted on May 14, 2010 under Xinjiang in the News

After almost an entire year under an Internet blackout, Xinjiang has finally been liberated from its digital iron curtain. The grand reopening is currently the main headline on the Xinjiang news site, Tianshan Net. Bold, [...]

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Böre Keldi: Aesop’s Classic Fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” Depicted in a Uyghur Cartoon

Posted on May 02, 2010 under Video and Audio Material

Yesterday I had the luck of stumbling upon what really is a treasure trove of learning material for people of all stripes who are studying the Uyghur language: a compilation of Uyghur cartoons depicting children’s [...]

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