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Monthly Archives June 2008

Let the magic carpet jokes begin.

Posted by Porfiriy on June 25, 2008 under Links

Reuters via the New York Times already gets the roll bowling with its “can’t resist to joke” article “China Pulls Rug from Under Flying Carpet Drug Smugglers.” As someone who now sees Xinjiang as my [...]

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A minkaohan on minzu relations in Xinjiang

Posted by Tewpiq on June 23, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

The intelligent and thought-provoking Blogging for China has put up a full English translation of a forum post entitled “Don’t endulge our ‘race (minzu 民族) complex’”. The original post (“别放纵自己的民族情结”) can be found here on [...]

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The one time a Han would want to be a Uyghur.

Posted by Porfiriy on June 21, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

I found on Reuters an amusing article describing the harebrained plot of three Shandong natives to pay off some rather steep gambling debts they dug themselves into. Common sense says that when you’re in such [...]

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Urumchi Olympic Torch Relay in Retrospect

Posted by Tewpiq on June 18, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

Updates: Reuters has an informative article on the broken promise of press freedom in the Xinjiang and Tibet torch relays, part of a series on the Olympic flame. The New York Times also has an [...]

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Olympic Torch Relay, in Urumchi Tomorrow, May Have Few Spectators

Posted by Tewpiq on June 16, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

The Olympic torch, originally scheduled to be in Tibet this week, will be arriving in Urumchi tomorrow (Tuesday 17 June). The flame flew into Urumchi from Chongqing yesterday evening, and it will leave Xinjiang on [...]

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

Posted by Tewpiq on June 10, 2008 under Reviews of Xinjiang Material , 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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Police Station Attacked in Sangong (三宫) Hui Village

Posted by Tewpiq on June 09, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

查看大图 (All GoogleDitu maps now automatically focus at the all-China level. Please scroll west.) According to sparse reports from the international press, a police station was assaulted last week in Sangong Hui Village by a [...]

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The Awakened Land – Chapter Three, Part Two

Posted by Tewpiq on June 03, 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. 54-60. New readers are encouraged to start from the beginning, Chapter One, Part One. This translation is presented [...]

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