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Monthly Archives July 2009

Video: Gunned Down in the Streets of Urumqi, Machete in Hand

Posted by Adwokat on July 27, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

Analysis of this video is pending. It appears to be footage of the mosque incident on 7/14. It shows some guys stirring up some folks in a mosque, and then later actual footage of two [...]

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Eighteenth-Century Map of Xinjiang

Posted by Tewpiq on July 20, 2009 under History of Xinjiang

Dear readers, we interrupt your regularly schedule posting to bring you a neat old map. What you see below is the 新疆總圖 or “General Map of Xinjiang.” This particular version is from the work 欽定新疆識略 [...]

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Chinese Consulate Officials Attempt to Block Australia’s Showing of Uighur Film

Posted by Sherin on July 16, 2009 under Links , Society and Culture in Xinjiang , Xinjiang in the News

Chinese consulate officials in Austrailia attempted to have a film withdrawn from Melbourne’s International Film Festival because it focuses on Rebiya Kadeer and her family. The festival’s director refused, and later commented to the media [...]

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Chinese Bloggers Call for Kurdish Independence from Turkey

Posted by Adwokat on July 15, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

In an ironic twist, a number of Chinese bloggers have begun calling for Kurdish independence from Turkey — a riposte to increasingly vocal Turkish support for Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Appearing on Junshi.cn ["MilitaryAffairs.cn"] — a [...]

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Two Uighurs Shot Dead in Urumqi by Chinese Police

Posted by Sherin on July 14, 2009 under Links , Society and Culture in Xinjiang , Xinjiang in the News

Two Uighurs were shot dead by Chinese policemen today in Urumqi, according to the BBC. Another man was injured in the shooting. A spokesmen for the Chinese government claims that the shooting occurred as a [...]

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Chinese Military Bloggers Respond to the Unrest in Xinjiang

Posted by Adwokat on July 13, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

Chinese military blog-watching may be a particularly unscientific form of analysis, but I’ll be darned if it ain’t the best place to find colorful, downright nasty things to say about people involved in the recent [...]

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Visual Misrepresentations in the Turkish Media

Posted by Sherin on July 13, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The Turkish daily newspaper Zaman’s video news story, Urumçi’de çatışma,  about the Urumchi riots is stunning due to its visual misrepresentations. While the Turkish voice over focuses entirely on the situation in Urumchi, for an [...]

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Turkey, China, and Xinjiang

Posted by Sherin on July 12, 2009 under Society and Culture in Xinjiang , Xinjiang in the News

The Turkish government has offered Rebiya Kadeer the opportunity to visit Turkey, as reported by Today’s Zaman. Given that her two previous attempts to visit Turkey were denied, this unprompted invitation is significant. Moreover, the [...]

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A Letter from Kashgar

Posted by Tewpiq on July 10, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The following is a letter from an anonymous foreign traveler currently in Kashgar, Xinjiang. The New Dominion presents this letter for the consideration and edification of its readers. There has been little news out of [...]

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Chinese Media Response to Xinjiang Unrest Goes Proactive

Posted by Adwokat on July 08, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The Chinese media response to ongoing unrest in Xinjiang has been noteworthy for the advertised speed and breadth of its coverage. (To say nothing of its accuracy.) Contrast what we have seen so far with [...]

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Images from Tuesday Urumqi Demonstrations

Posted by Tewpiq on July 08, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The first wave of Uyghur actions in Urumqi on Sunday evening brought at least a thousand people, mostly young Uyghur men, probably members of Urumqi’s small middle class, into the streets. They occupied public spaces [...]

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Urumqi Incident Analysis at Global Voices

Posted by Tewpiq on July 07, 2009 under Links

We at TND recommend this article at Global Voices for a strikingly nuanced discussion of Chinese attitudes towards the riots in Urumqi.  Reading, translating, and analyzing Chinese-language on-line sources, they present some different viewpoints from [...]

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