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Monthly Archives April 2010

Ilham Tohti: Blacklists that Prohibit Leaving the Country Openly Trample the Law

Posted by Porfiriy on April 27, 2010 under Xinjiang in the News

Two weeks ago, outspoken Uyghur activist and intellectual Ilham Tohti was prevented from going to Turkey to attend an academic conference on Turkic culture. A quick background on the spat can be found here, at [...]

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Secretary Wang Lequan transferred, replaced with Zhang Chunxian

Posted by Tewpiq on April 26, 2010 under Politics in Xinjiang , Xinjiang in the News

On 14 April 2010, Wang Lequan (王乐泉) was removed from his post as Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) for the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region by order of the Central Committee of the [...]

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More Verbal Mayhem Brought to You by the Uyghur Language

Posted by Porfiriy on April 17, 2010 under Language in Xinjiang

A few days ago I introduced the intricacies of the Mood Category of Uyghur grammar and how the grammatical fixation on how information was obtained lead to some really mystifying sentence structures. Today, drawing from [...]

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Citation Needed: The Delightful Inscrutability of the Mood Category in Uyghur Grammar

Posted by Porfiriy on April 13, 2010 under Language in Xinjiang

The bear that broke my arm was this big! – Naw, dude, you’re totally shittin’ me! There are people with linguistic training that are far more qualified than I am to write about Uyghur grammar, [...]

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Two Poems by Memtili Ependi

Posted by Tewpiq on April 06, 2010 under History of Xinjiang , Translations into English

Muhemmet Éli (Memtili) Toxtaji (1901-1937), better known as Memtili Ependi or Tewpiq, is a singular figure in the history of Xinjiang. He came from a family of prominent businessmen and activists for modern education and [...]

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Oghlaq Tartishish: An Intro to the Sport “Goat Tussle” in Uyghur

Posted by Porfiriy on April 04, 2010 under Society and Culture in Xinjiang

Oghlaq Tartishish, a traditional Central Asian sport which could roughly be rendered into English as “Goat Tussle,” or “Contending over a Goat” and better known by its Persian name, buzkashi, is something you’ll inevitably hear [...]

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