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Monthly Archives May 2008

Brief Hiatus

Posted by Tewpiq on May 25, 2008 under The Awakened Land , Translations into English

Please expect a longer-than-normal hiatus from The New Dominion in the next week, as our main contributors will be out and about.  The action-packed adventures of Xojiniyaz will return next week in The Awakened Land!

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“Uighur Online” BBS Community Shut Down

Posted by Porfiriy on May 21, 2008 under Links

Just dropping in to link to a post you can’t miss by John Kennedy at Global Voices, documenting the closure of popular multi-ethnic sounding board Uyghur Online and various reactions to what was perceived as [...]

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Exhibition at the Xinjiang Library, 18-28 May 2008

Posted by Tewpiq on May 21, 2008 under Uncategorized

I will begin this review with the following qualification: I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like. That said, I have seen art in Beijing, Shanghai, Kunming, and other, more obscure [...]

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

Posted by Tewpiq on May 19, 2008 under Reviews of Xinjiang Material

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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Interactive Tourist Map of Urumqi

Posted by Tewpiq on May 16, 2008 under Xinjiang Travel

We at The New Dominion strive to make useful information about Xinjiang available to those who need it, especially in a fun, visual form. That includes tourists who, when faced with the Urumchi section of [...]

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The Awakened Land – Chapter Three, Part One

Posted by Tewpiq on May 11, 2008 under The Awakened Land , Translations into English

The following is a serial translation of Abdurehim Ötkür’s 1985 historical novel Oyghanghan Zemin, Chapter Two, pp. 52-54. New readers are encouraged to start from the beginning, Chapter One, Part One. This translation is presented [...]

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Online Humor Affirms Xinjiang Stereotypes

Posted by Porfiriy on May 10, 2008 under Links

So what do you do if you’re interested in ascertaining how a nation’s social imagination classifies and categorizes a particular subset of its citizens? Ask the Internet, of course! This time, John Pasden of Sinosplice [...]

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Hong Kong Tabloid (Wildly) Speculates on Xinjiang Involvement in Shanghai Bus Fire

Posted by Porfiriy on May 08, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

I’m going to state right off the bat, unequivocally, that since portraying a truthful picture of affairs in Xinjiang is one of the top goals of The New Dominion, we’re automatically cautious when dealing with [...]

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The Awakened Land – Chapter Two, Part Five

Posted by Tewpiq on May 04, 2008 under The Awakened Land , Translations into English

The following is a serial translation of Abdurehim Ötkür’s 1985 historical novel Oyghanghan Zemin, Chapter Two, pp. 44-51. New readers are encouraged to start from the beginning, Chapter One, Part One. This translation is presented [...]

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Review: James Millward, Eurasian Crossroads

Posted by schoolhouserock on May 03, 2008 under Reviews of Xinjiang Material

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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May brings more links.

Posted by Porfiriy on May 03, 2008 under Links

Again, the cool-posts-about-Xinjiang rate has reached critical mass and it’s time to share some links. On to the good stuff. Timothy B. Weston at The China Beat has conducted a fascinating interview that sheds some [...]

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Ani Muqin Cai Sibe Restaurant, Ürümchi

Posted by Tewpiq on May 03, 2008 under Uncategorized

The weather is warming all across Xinjiang, and it’s time for tourists of every kind to start exploring this beautiful land. Since Ürümchi gets such a bad reputation from most of the popular guidebooks out [...]

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