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Down a Narrow Road: Identity and Masculinity in a Uyghur Community in Xinjiang China

Just yesterday, I was flipping through an old photocopy of Dr. Jay Dautcher’s Berkeley PhD dissertation in Anthropology, “Folklore and identity in a Uighur community in Xinjiang China”. It’s an excellent read, and it’s based [...]

Earthquake in Chapchal

Sunday, 25 January 2009 at 9:47 AM Beijing time (7:47 local time), an earthquake measuring approximately 5.0 on the Richter scale shook the Chapchal Sibe Autonomous County in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of northwestern [...]

Police Station Attacked in Sangong (三宫) Hui Village

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 [...]

Blips of Unrest in Kashgar and Ghulja

In stark contrast to the recent riots in Tibet, where an originating fire lit in Lhasa spread quickly and eventually consumed whole Greater Tibet tinderbox in a matter of days (illustrated vividly and amusingly here [...]