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Monthly Archives February 2009

Self-Immolating Beijing Protestors were Uyghur, claims “Source”

Posted by Porfiriy on February 27, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

On Wednesday a car pulled turned into the famous Wangfujing pedestrian shopping street in Beijing. When police officers pulled up to the car to cite a traffic violation, already roused to suspicion by the car’s [...]

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James Millward on Guantanamo Uyghurs

Posted by Porfiriy on February 27, 2009 under Links

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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Hakim Siyit’s Petition Video in Full

Posted by Porfiriy on February 18, 2009 under Society and Culture in Xinjiang

Thanks to a frequent commenter and invaluable contributor who goes by the name “Uyghur,” I now know that Hakim Siyit’s petition video, in which he and many other farmers air their grievances against farming practices [...]

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IETab for Reading Uyghur in Firefox

Posted by Porfiriy on February 17, 2009 under Language in Xinjiang

Firefox is delightful. I use it, and you should too. However, for the small demographic of Uyghur-reading Firefox readers, there’s the problem that on many pages the Uyghur script doesn’t render correctly. It’s a bummer, [...]

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The Xinjiang Snow Leopard Project

Posted by Porfiriy on February 10, 2009 under Nature in Xinjiang

For what is perhaps a sorely-needed break from the usual content here on The New Dominion, I refer our readers to the Xinjiang Snow Leopard Project. The Xinjiang Snow Leopard Project (XSLP) is an initiative [...]

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Uyghur Farmer Produces Media Content to Air Grievances

Posted by Porfiriy on February 07, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The story of a disgruntled farmer gathering what is, for him, a significant amount of savings and traveling to Beijing to lay down his grievances before the authorities is nothing new to China. It is [...]

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Latest from the CECC

Posted by Tewpiq on February 05, 2009 under Links

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

Posted by Tewpiq on February 04, 2009 under Reviews of Xinjiang Material

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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Bilingual Education News

Posted by Tewpiq on February 03, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

It’s the beginning of a new year, and that means it’s time for Xinhua to publish statistics. Most interesting to me are some new figures on the PRC’s efforts to promote “bilingual” education. “Bilingual” education [...]

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