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Review: Invisible China by Colin Legerton and Jacob Rawson

Posted by Tewpiq on May 23, 2009

Colin Legerton and Jacob Rawson. Invisible China: A Journey Through Ethnic Borderlands. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2009. 256 pp. I am pleased to have my very own copy of Invisible China, a remarkable travelogue just [...]

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Down a Narrow Road: Identity and Masculinity in a Uyghur Community in Xinjiang China

Posted by Tewpiq on February 04, 2009

Just yesterday, I was flipping through an old photocopy of Dr. Jay Dautcher’s Berkeley PhD dissertation in Anthropology, “Folklore and identity in a Uighur community in Xinjiang China”. It’s an excellent read, and it’s based [...]

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Tabloid Backlash against New York Times Loulan Beauty Article

Posted by Porfiriy on November 24, 2008

Some of you may have noticed about a week ago an article in the New York Times by correspondent Edward Wong titled, “The Dead Tell a Tale China Doesn’t Care to Listen To,” about the [...]

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Book release: Nathan Light, Intimate Heritage: Creating Uyghur Muqam Song in Xinjiang

Posted by Tewpiq on June 10, 2008 Xinjiang in the News

Nathan Light. Intimate heritage: creating Uyghur muqam song in Xinjiang. Berlin: LIT Verlag. 2008. Pp. 352. 34.90 EUR. (Part of the series Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia) A new book is to be [...]

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Review: Äsät Sulayman, Özlük wä Kimlik (Ego and Identity)

Posted by Tewpiq on May 19, 2008

Äsät Sulayman. Özlük wä Kimlik – Yawropa Qirghaqliridin Märkiziy Asiya Chongqurluqlirigha Qarap. Ürümchi: Shinjang Uniwersiteti Näshriyati. 2006. Pp. 443. 47.00 RMB. (English title: Ego & Identity – Cultural Dialogue between Inner Asia and Scandinavia) I [...]

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Review: James Millward, Eurasian Crossroads

Posted by schoolhouserock on May 03, 2008

James A. Millward. Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang. New York: Columbia University Press. 2007. Pp. xix, 440. $40.00 James Millward has done the Xinjiang studies community a great service by authoring the first comprehensive [...]

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