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Update: Bomb Threat, Not Hijacking, Reported on Airplane Bound for Xinjiang

Posted by Sherin on August 10, 2009 Xinjiang in the News

According to updates from the Associated Press, Xinhua is now reporting that there was a bomb threat–not a hijacking–on a Xinjiang-bound airplane.  There are few details at the moment, but apparently the flight in question [...]

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Chinese Consulate Officials Attempt to Block Australia’s Showing of Uighur Film

Posted by Sherin on July 16, 2009 Society and Culture in Xinjiang § Xinjiang in the News

Chinese consulate officials in Austrailia attempted to have a film withdrawn from Melbourne’s International Film Festival because it focuses on Rebiya Kadeer and her family. The festival’s director refused, and later commented to the media [...]

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Two Uighurs Shot Dead in Urumqi by Chinese Police

Posted by Sherin on July 14, 2009 Society and Culture in Xinjiang § Xinjiang in the News

Two Uighurs were shot dead by Chinese policemen today in Urumqi, according to the BBC. Another man was injured in the shooting. A spokesmen for the Chinese government claims that the shooting occurred as a [...]

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Urumqi Incident Analysis at Global Voices

Posted by Tewpiq on July 07, 2009

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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Uighurs in the Media

Posted by Sherin on May 25, 2009 Society and Culture in Xinjiang § Xinjiang in the News

The Christian Science Monitor is clearly concerned with the rights of Uighurs. Their latest Uighur-related article interviews Abu Bakker Qassim in Tirana, Albania. The piece focuses on his perspective, as a now freed, former Guantánamo [...]

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Xinjiang recipes series

Posted by Porfiriy on May 07, 2009

There’s another regularly updated Xinjiang blog out on the block and that’s This is Xinjiang. It’s mostly a record of the personal experiences of an academic teaching English at a university, and among the entertaining [...]

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Josh Summers’ review of Wang Gang’s English

Posted by Porfiriy on April 07, 2009

One of the very few fictional portraits of Xinjiang hit the shelves in the English language just a few days ago, and Josh Summers of Far West China has a review of it up at [...]

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More Xinjiang Links

Posted by Porfiriy on April 03, 2009

My apologies for another run-and-gun style post. We mentioned in a previous roundup that Uighurbiz, an outspoken online community, was shut down, and that its owner, Ilham Tohti, dropped off the radar for a few [...]

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Fictional Xinjiang Novel Reveals State Insecurities

Posted by Porfiriy on April 01, 2009

The Cultural Revolution is a sensitive topic inside of China’s borders, spoken of quietly, indirectly, or simply not at all.  And that is why I was surprised that the China Daily decided to put out [...]

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Sebastian Veg’s Review of "My Far West, Your East Turkistan"

Posted by Porfiriy on March 20, 2009

Unfortunately, the academic discussion of Uyghur issues inside of China is fettered by a closed environment which follows very narrow avenues of discussion and for the most part accepts only those conclusions which are in [...]

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James Millward on Guantanamo Uyghurs

Posted by Porfiriy on February 27, 2009

James Millward, a Xinjiang scholar at Georgetown who recently published a definitive history of Xinjiang titled Eurasian Crossroads, has published a piece at The China Beat discussing the evolution of the media perception of the [...]

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Latest from the CECC

Posted by Tewpiq on February 05, 2009

The Congressional-Executive Commission on China has just released its latest newsletter.  This issue includes four excellent pieces on topics of interest to Xinjiang watchers: The PRC is promoting a new program of  “ethnic unity education“. [...]

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