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Kahar Barat on Xinjiang History, Part 2: The History of the Han in Xinjiang

Posted by Porfiriy on August 17, 2010 under History of Xinjiang

Uyghur Scholar Kahar Barat Wang Lixiong The Chinese government uses frequently-lampooned language when it comes to official rhetoric on Xinjiang’s historical relationship with the rest of China proper. As with Tibet, the CCP asserts that [...]

Comments (54) | Also tagged: ban chao, buddhism, han dynasty, kahar barat, kumarajiva, tang dynasty, three kingdoms, tujue, wang lixiong, xianbei, xiongnu, zhang qian

Uyghur Historian Kahar Barat Discusses Xinjiang History, Part 1

Posted by Porfiriy on July 26, 2010 under History of Xinjiang

Uyghur Scholar Kahar Barat Wang Lixiong Two extremely compelling and intriguing voices on Xinjiang issues today are those of Wang Lixiong and Kahar Barat. Married to Woeser, an outspoken Tibetan blogger and rights advocate, Wang [...]

Comments (7) | Also tagged: buddhism, gaochang, huihu, jiaohe, kahar barat, Kashgar, Khotan, uyghur khanate, wang lixiong

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 [...]

Comments (17) | Also tagged: Memtili, poetry, Translations, uyghurche, Uyghurs

Eighteenth-Century Map of Xinjiang

Posted by Tewpiq on July 20, 2009 under History of Xinjiang

Dear readers, we interrupt your regularly schedule posting to bring you a neat old map. What you see below is the 新疆總圖 or “General Map of Xinjiang.” This particular version is from the work 欽定新疆識略 [...]

Comments (2) | Also tagged: china, chinese, map, maps, qing, Xinjiang

A Letter from Kashgar

Posted by Tewpiq on July 10, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The following is a letter from an anonymous foreign traveler currently in Kashgar, Xinjiang. The New Dominion presents this letter for the consideration and edification of its readers. There has been little news out of [...]

Comments (29) | Also tagged: 5 July 2009, first-hand, Kashgar, Society and Culture in Xinjiang, uyghur, Xinjiang, Xinjiang in the News

Xanliq Madrasa Demolished – Played Important Role in Kashgar’s History

Posted by Tewpiq on June 18, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

Update: Radio Free Asia’s Uyghur service has now posted an article on the demolition. On 15 June 2009, around 10:30 AM local time, wrecking crews working on the “renewal” of Kashgar’s Old City demolished the [...]

Comments (6) | Also tagged: chinese, culture, demolition, education, government, Han, islam, Kashgar, Locations, politics, protest, protests, Society and Culture in Xinjiang, uyghur, Xinjiang

Old Kashgar: Reconfiguring Space With Bulldozers

Posted by Tewpiq on May 28, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

Word of Old Kashgar’s imminent destruction has reached The New York Times. The story broke in the American media back in March with the Washington Post, was picked up by the Emirati The National, and [...]

Comments (7) | Also tagged: architecture, china, construction, culture, dautcher, earthquakes, government, Kashgar, news, politics, Society and Culture in Xinjiang, uyghur, xinhua, Xinjiang

Alright then, Xinjiang is that bad: A Place of Exile

Posted by Porfiriy on March 13, 2009 under History of Xinjiang , Xinjiang in the News

Alright then, so in the last post I talked about what I perceived to be a media blitz by Xinhua and its ilk to sort of compensate for Nur Bekri’s gloomy forecasting last Friday. Xinjiang, [...]

Comments (7) | Also tagged: charter 08, education, exile, he weifang, hong liangji, law, lin zexu, mao zemin, Xinjiang, XPCC

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, [...]

Comments (8) | Also tagged: CCP, east turkestan, education, propaganda, The Origins and Development of East Turkestan Splittism, translation, Translations, Xinjiang, 中文

Tabloid Backlash against New York Times Loulan Beauty Article

Posted by Porfiriy on November 24, 2008 under Reviews of Xinjiang Material

Some of you may have noticed about a week ago an article in the New York Times by correspondent Edward Wong titled, “The Dead Tell a Tale China Doesn’t Care to Listen To,” about the [...]

Comments (37) | Also tagged: archaeology, china, chinese identity, cultural identity, education, global times, han dynasty, identity, loulan beauty, media, museums, national identity, newspapers, Reviews of Xinjiang Material, tarim mummies, the new york times, zhang qian

“Xinjiang People, I’m Sorry, Thank You”

Posted by Tewpiq on July 03, 2008 under Uncategorized

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 [...]

Comments (3) | Also tagged: agri, AIDS, beijing, cadres, children, china, construction, cotton, culture, disaster, economy, gold, grains, growth, Han, internet, investments, Khotan, military, Misc, nuclear, OASIES, oil, population, power, railroads, sanitation, shandong, shanghai, Society and Culture in Xinjiang, tax, trade, translation, transportation, uyghur, Xinjiang

Review: Äsät Sulayman, Özlük wä Kimlik (Ego and Identity)

Posted by Tewpiq on May 19, 2008 under Reviews of Xinjiang Material

Äsät Sulayman. Özlük wä Kimlik – Yawropa Qirghaqliridin Märkiziy Asiya Chongqurluqlirigha Qarap. Ürümchi: Shinjang Uniwersiteti Näshriyati. 2006. Pp. 443. 47.00 RMB. (English title: Ego & Identity – Cultural Dialogue between Inner Asia and Scandinavia) I [...]

Comments (8) | Also tagged: book, books, culture, discourse, literature, Reviews of Xinjiang Material, Society and Culture in Xinjiang, uyghur, writing, Xinjiang

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