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Color-coded Guide to Eastern Provinces-to-Xinjiang Economic Aid Pairing

Posted by Porfiriy on June 10, 2010 under Politics in Xinjiang

Part of the major support package unveiled by the central government on May 20 is a plan to pair  China’s wealthier provinces and municipalities of the East to jurisdictions in Xinjiang. Just recently, the Beijing [...]

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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 [...]

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Location of August 4th Kashgar Attack

Posted by Porfiriy on August 16, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

While we’re posting maps, I figured I’d also post for our readers the exact location of the dump truck/knife/homemade explosives attack on the jogging police that occured on August 4th. Thanks to this website I [...]

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Interactive Tourist Map of Urumqi

Posted by Tewpiq on May 16, 2008 under Xinjiang Travel

We at The New Dominion strive to make useful information about Xinjiang available to those who need it, especially in a fun, visual form. That includes tourists who, when faced with the Urumchi section of [...]

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Online Humor Affirms Xinjiang Stereotypes

Posted by Porfiriy on May 10, 2008 under Links

So what do you do if you’re interested in ascertaining how a nation’s social imagination classifies and categorizes a particular subset of its citizens? Ask the Internet, of course! This time, John Pasden of Sinosplice [...]

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Ani Muqin Cai Sibe Restaurant, Ürümchi

Posted by Tewpiq on May 03, 2008 under Uncategorized

The weather is warming all across Xinjiang, and it’s time for tourists of every kind to start exploring this beautiful land. Since Ürümchi gets such a bad reputation from most of the popular guidebooks out [...]

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Blips of Unrest in Kashgar and Ghulja

Posted by Porfiriy on April 04, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

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 [...]

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