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Xinjiang recipes series

There’s another regularly updated Xinjiang blog out on the block and that’s This is Xinjiang. It’s mostly a record of the personal experiences of an academic teaching English at a university, and among the entertaining or insightful anecdotes coming from a newcomer to Xinjiang there are also posts like the latest one where readers can [...]

Posted 07 May 2009 † Porfiriy § Links ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Josh Summers’ review of Wang Gang’s English

One of the very few fictional portraits of Xinjiang hit the shelves in the English language just a few days ago, and Josh Summers of Far West China has a review of it up at Danwei. Summers celebrates the persuasive portrayal of human relationships against the gritty backdrop of the Cultural Revolution but regrets that [...]

Posted 07 April 2009 † Porfiriy § Links ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

Sebastian Veg’s Review of "My Far West, Your East Turkistan"

Unfortunately, the academic discussion of Uyghur issues inside of China is fettered by a closed environment which follows very narrow avenues of discussion and for the most part accepts only those conclusions which are in line with the Party’s expectations. It’s therefore pretty refreshing to hear of the book My Far West, Your East Turkistan, [...]

Posted 20 March 2009 † Porfiriy § Links ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: , ,

James Millward on Guantanamo Uyghurs

James Millward, a Xinjiang scholar at Georgetown who recently published a definitive history of Xinjiang titled Eurasian Crossroads, has published a piece at The China Beat discussing the evolution of the media perception of the Uyghurs from deliberate obscurity to gracing the editorial pages of the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. Millward also [...]

Posted 27 February 2009 † Porfiriy § Links ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Xinhua Version of Kashgar Attack Addresses NYT Doubts

This is the second sentencing we’ve covered at The New Dominion (the other being the sentencing of conspiracists captured in January 2007) and both have been quite informative because sentencing is when the authorites release to state media networks the official version of events as established by the trial. And so when it was brought [...]

Posted 18 December 2008 † Porfiriy § News Updates ‡ Comments (7) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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? And artistic masterminds and overlords from Hong Kong pointing fingers and cameras in all directions barking orders in English? What [...]

Posted 22 November 2008 † Porfiriy § Links ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , ,