http://www.thenewdominion.net Your source for all things Xinjiang Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:32:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I promised, a few posts down, another document that refers to "Xinjiang people", not just Uyghur or Han or whatever. Recently, the following post, once found at this address, was passed on to me by a friend. It seems to have circulated on the Web since perhaps early November. ... http://www.thenewdominion.net/209/xinjiang-people-im-sorry-thank-you/ 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 adoptive home in China, I feel a sort of odd pride that drug traffickers in ... http://www.thenewdominion.net/207/let-the-magic-carpet-jokes-begin/ 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 a forum dedicated to minkaohan (民考汉, members of non-Han groups who finish their schooling ... http://www.thenewdominion.net/206/a-minkaohan-on-minzu-relations-in-xinjiang/ 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 a bind the best route to take is extortion, and you can't extort unless you're ... http://www.thenewdominion.net/205/the-one-time-a-han-would-want-to-be-a-uyghur/ 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 interview with noted Tibet scholar Dr. Robert Barnett on the relays in western China.  ... http://www.thenewdominion.net/203/urumchi-olympic-torch-relay-in-retrospect/ 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 20 June. After the end of the Urumchi torch relay, the torch will proceed to Kashgar, ... http://www.thenewdominion.net/202/olympic-torch-relay-in-urumchi-tomorrow-may-have-few-spectators/ 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 published on the history of and discourse surrounding the muqam, a Turkic musical form with Arabic ... http://www.thenewdominion.net/200/book-release-nathan-light-intimate-heritage-creating-uyghur-muqam-song-in-xinjiang/ 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 group of Uyghurs. The Uyghurs are said to have used rocks and gasoline bombs in ... http://www.thenewdominion.net/199/police-stationed-attacked-in-sangong-%e4%b8%89%e5%ae%ab-hui-village/ 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 for information and entertainment purposes only. New sections will be posted every Sunday, pending their ... http://www.thenewdominion.net/198/the-awakened-land-%e2%80%93-chapter-three-part-two/ Please expect a longer-than-normal hiatus from The New Dominion in the next week, as our main contributors will be out and about.  The action-packed adventures of Xojiniyaz will return next week in The Awakened Land! http://www.thenewdominion.net/197/brief-hiatus/