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Pantusov’s introduction to Mulla Bilal’s Holy War in China

Posted on June 21, 2010 under History of Xinjiang , Translations into English

The following is a translation from Russian of Pantusov’s introduction to his printed text version of Mullā Bilāl’s 1876 Ghazāt dar mulk-i Chín (“Holy War in China,” Russian Война мусульманъ противъ китайцевъ). This version was [...]

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Xinhua Deputy Chief Editor Reveals New Details of the Urumqi Riots

Posted on June 04, 2010 under Xinjiang in the News

A 15 May lecture by Xinhua Deputy Chief Editor Xia Lin (夏林) at Tianjin Foreign Studies University began making the English-language media rounds today. You can find the English translation of the lecture, transcribed by [...]

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Secretary Wang Lequan transferred, replaced with Zhang Chunxian

Posted on April 26, 2010 under Politics in Xinjiang , Xinjiang in the News

On 14 April 2010, Wang Lequan (王乐泉) was removed from his post as Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) for the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region by order of the Central Committee of the [...]

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Two Poems by Memtili Ependi

Posted on April 06, 2010 under History of Xinjiang , Translations into English

Muhemmet Éli (Memtili) Toxtaji (1901-1937), better known as Memtili Ependi or Tewpiq, is a singular figure in the history of Xinjiang. He came from a family of prominent businessmen and activists for modern education and [...]

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Airplane reported hijacked in Xinjiang

Posted on August 10, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The AP, the BBC, and now several Western-language media outlets are now reporting the hijacking of an airplane in Xinjiang, according to a brief report from Xinhua. No details are available. TND is looking for [...]

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Eighteenth-Century Map of Xinjiang

Posted on July 20, 2009 under History of Xinjiang

Dear readers, we interrupt your regularly schedule posting to bring you a neat old map. What you see below is the 新疆總圖 or “General Map of Xinjiang.” This particular version is from the work 欽定新疆識略 [...]

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A Letter from Kashgar

Posted on July 10, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The following is a letter from an anonymous foreign traveler currently in Kashgar, Xinjiang. The New Dominion presents this letter for the consideration and edification of its readers. There has been little news out of [...]

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Images from Tuesday Urumqi Demonstrations

Posted on July 08, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The first wave of Uyghur actions in Urumqi on Sunday evening brought at least a thousand people, mostly young Uyghur men, probably members of Urumqi’s small middle class, into the streets. They occupied public spaces [...]

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Urumqi Incident Analysis at Global Voices

Posted on July 07, 2009 under Links

We at TND recommend this article at Global Voices for a strikingly nuanced discussion of Chinese attitudes towards the riots in Urumqi.  Reading, translating, and analyzing Chinese-language on-line sources, they present some different viewpoints from [...]

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140 Dead, 828 Injured in Riots

Posted on July 06, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

UPDATE: Xinhua claims that the Urumqi authorities dispatched 20,000 police and military personnel to quell the riots. They used “tear gas grenades, stun grenades, and high-pressure water guns” on the demonstrators. Others have suggested that [...]

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Madame Butterfly’s Son a Uyghur

Posted on July 06, 2009 under History of Xinjiang

On Tuesday, 30 June 2009, Shi Peipu, known to the world as “M. Butterfly,” died in Paris at the age of 70, The New York Times reports. The biologically male Chinese opera singer and spy [...]

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Demonstrations in Urumqi – Official Response

Posted on July 06, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The Xinhua news agency is now reporting that, between 8:00 PM on 5 July and 12:30 AM on 6 July (Beijing time), rioting broke out in several parts of the city of Urumqi. They report [...]

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