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Blogger Sends Refreshingly Thoughtful Reflections and Suggestions to Secretary Zhang

Posted by Porfiriy on May 30, 2010 under Politics in Xinjiang , Society and Culture in Xinjiang , Translations into English

I hope anyone and everyone interested in social justice and ethnic issues in China will take the time to read the letter a Hui individual in Xinjiang has sent to the new Secretary, Zhang Chunxian. [...]

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Uyghur Signage Gets a Facelift in Urumqi After Riots

Posted by Porfiriy on May 22, 2010 under Language in Xinjiang

In Xinjiang, there’s a common saying among Uyghurs that “Chinese characters are the eyes, and Uyghur characters are just the eyebrows.” If I remember the Uyghur correctly–don’t quote me here–I believe it’s something along the [...]

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Translation: Diligently Protect a Healthy and Open Internet Environment

Posted by Porfiriy on May 14, 2010 under Translations into English , Xinjiang in the News

Along with the “Open Letter” to Xinjiang Netizens, Tianshan Net also published an article by a commentator on the significance of the reopening of the Internet and the responsibilities expected of netizens now that everything [...]

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Translation: An Open Letter to All Netizen Friends Throughout Xinjiang

Posted by Porfiriy on May 14, 2010 under Translations into English , Xinjiang in the News

As part of the announcement of the reopening of the Internet in Xinjiang, the regional government wrote an “Open Letter” to the Internet users of Xinjiang. Below is our translation of the letter.

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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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Trial Implementation of Kashgar Old City Reconstruction to be Broadened

Posted by Porfiriy on March 26, 2010 under Xinjiang in the News

Image by DPerstin This is a translation of a Mandarin article posted on Tian Shan Net on March 23rd about the expansion of the pilot program in the Kashgar Old City Reconstruction Project. In 2010, [...]

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The Origins and Development of East Turkestan Splittism

Posted by Porfiriy on January 17, 2009 under Translations into English

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, [...]

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Xinhua Version of Kashgar Attack Addresses NYT Doubts

Posted by Porfiriy on December 18, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

This is the second sentencing we’ve covered at The New Dominion (the other being the sentencing of conspiracists captured in January 2007) and both have been quite informative because sentencing is when the authorites release [...]

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Youku Reactions to Kashgar Attack

Posted by Porfiriy on August 05, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

As we await more clarifying information for China’s state organs, I thought it wouldn’t hurt to take a look at some assorted reactions Chinese citizens are making to the attacks on Mandarin language pages. I’ll [...]

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