Monthly Archives January 2009

Earthquake in Chapchal

Sunday, 25 January 2009 at 9:47 AM Beijing time (7:47 local time), an earthquake measuring approximately 5.0 on the Richter scale shook the Chapchal Sibe Autonomous County in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of northwestern [...]

The Xinjiang 特产 Speciality You Always Wanted

And now, another lighthearted interlude, from Engrish Funny: A well-known Xinjiang product, 新疆香梨, or Xinjiang Pears, gets an irresistible reinterpretation by a grocer with questionable English abilities.

The Origins and Development of East Turkestan Splittism

Regular readers of our blog will know well by now that I’m a regular complainer about the lack of solid facts, and that the discussion of Xinjiang can only be held on a secondary level, [...]

Ten Named Revolutionary Martyrs, Seven are Uyghur Victims of Violence

From Tian Shan Net via the Associated Press, seven Uyghur victims of violence that occurred during and after Olympics were officially named “Revolutionary Martyrs (革命烈士)” on Monday along with three other individuals who died in [...]

Adel Hakimjan

The BBC has just put up a story on Adel Hakimjan, a.k.a. Adel (Adil) Abdul Hakim or Adel Abdulhehim, one of the five Uyghur detainees in Guantanamo initially taken in by Albania. Adel, 34, describes [...]

New translation of a novel set in Xinjiang

Paper Republic, a literary blog, has an interview by Bruce Humes with the translators of Wang Gang’s novel, English. Set in Xinjiang during the Cultural Revolution, English, which has found popularity in China, follows a [...]