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Review: Invisible China by Colin Legerton and Jacob Rawson

Posted by Tewpiq on May 23, 2009 under Reviews of Xinjiang Material

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 [...]

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

Posted by Porfiriy on March 20, 2009 under Links

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Book release: Nathan Light, Intimate Heritage: Creating Uyghur Muqam Song in Xinjiang

Posted by Tewpiq on June 10, 2008 under Reviews of Xinjiang Material , Xinjiang in the News

Nathan Light. Intimate heritage: creating Uyghur muqam song in Xinjiang. Berlin: LIT Verlag. 2008. Pp. 352. 34.90 EUR. (Part of the series Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia) A new book is to be [...]

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Exhibition at the Xinjiang Library, 18-28 May 2008

Posted by Tewpiq on May 21, 2008 under Uncategorized

I will begin this review with the following qualification: I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like. That said, I have seen art in Beijing, Shanghai, Kunming, and other, more obscure [...]

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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 [...]

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Review: James Millward, Eurasian Crossroads

Posted by schoolhouserock on May 03, 2008 under Reviews of Xinjiang Material

James A. Millward. Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang. New York: Columbia University Press. 2007. Pp. xix, 440. $40.00 James Millward has done the Xinjiang studies community a great service by authoring the first comprehensive [...]

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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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Arts & Entertainment News Roundup: 13-19 March 2008

Posted by Tewpiq on March 19, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

You may have flipped through a taxi magazine in the back of a Beijing or Shanghai taxi. You are likely to have noticed regional variations in taxi color and configuration. You are quite certain to [...]

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Review of “Dispatches from China’s Wild West”

Posted by Tewpiq on March 09, 2008 under Links

A few days ago, I wrote on this page about a new series of articles, documenting one independent journalist’s trip through Xinjiang, entitled “Dispatches from China’s Wild West”, appearing on the site of the on-line [...]

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