Tag Archives: identity

Review: Invisible China by Colin Legerton and Jacob Rawson

Colin Legerton and Jacob Rawson. Invisible China: A Journey Through Ethnic Borderlands. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2009. 256 pp. I am pleased to have my very own copy of Invisible China, a remarkable travelogue just [...]

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 [...]

Tabloid Backlash against New York Times Loulan Beauty Article

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 [...]

Identity Crisis Bonanza hosted by Pepsi

Uyghurs dressed as Mexicans and Brazilians? Kazakhs and Tartars posing as Russians? Skulking Han Chinese teenagers with Japanese rising sun headbands? Central Asians exulting in German patriotism while the real German begrudgingly cheers for America? [...]