Tag Archives: internet

Our website is a prominent “node” in online “Uyghur Issue Networks”

Last month, Professor Yu-Wen Chen of the University of Konstanz published a fascinating and illuminating study on a little-studied aspect of global Uyghur activism: a hyperlink analysis of websites on Uyghur issues with the intent [...]

Guangdong TV News Blurb on Opening of Xinjiang Internet

From an article at QQ, here’s a blurb of a TV report, apparently named “Morning in Guangdong” (广东早晨) that briefly mentioned the opening of Internet in Xinjiang.  

Translation: Diligently Protect a Healthy and Open Internet Environment

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 [...]

Translation: An Open Letter to All Netizen Friends Throughout Xinjiang

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.

Xinjiang Internet: Restored

After almost an entire year under an Internet blackout, Xinjiang has finally been liberated from its digital iron curtain. The grand reopening is currently the main headline on the Xinjiang news site, Tianshan Net. Bold, [...]

More Xinjiang Links

My apologies for another run-and-gun style post. We mentioned in a previous roundup that Uighurbiz, an outspoken online community, was shut down, and that its owner, Ilham Tohti, dropped off the radar for a few [...]

IETab for Reading Uyghur in Firefox

Firefox is delightful. I use it, and you should too. However, for the small demographic of Uyghur-reading Firefox readers, there’s the problem that on many pages the Uyghur script doesn’t render correctly. It’s a bummer, [...]

Uyghur Farmer Produces Media Content to Air Grievances

The story of a disgruntled farmer gathering what is, for him, a significant amount of savings and traveling to Beijing to lay down his grievances before the authorities is nothing new to China. It is [...]

Youku Reactions to Kashgar Attack

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 [...]

The Mystery of the Time Traveling Executions: Uyghur Terrorists Get Not-So-Summary Sentences?

Update: The mystery appears to be solved. My suspicions that the contradictions could be resolved by the possibility that RFA was simply wrong in its reporting turned out to be correct. The RFA article has [...]

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

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 [...]

“Uighur Online” BBS Community Shut Down

Just dropping in to link to a post you can’t miss by John Kennedy at Global Voices, documenting the closure of popular multi-ethnic sounding board Uyghur Online and various reactions to what was perceived as [...]