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A minkaohan on minzu relations in Xinjiang

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 in Chinese). The post [...]

Review of “Dispatches from China’s Wild West”

A few days ago, I wrote on this page about a new series of articles, documenting one independent journalist’s trip through Xinjiang, entitled “Dispatches from China’s Wild West”, appearing on the site of the on-line magazine Slate. Certainly, this series had created a certain on-line buzz about Xinjiang – hits for “Xinjiang” have skyrocketed, [...]