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Exhibition at the Xinjiang Library, 18-28 May 2008

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 locales, as well as Ürümchi, and I have never been especially impressed. The same themes appear endlessly, presented [...]

Posted 21 May 2008 † Tewpiq § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Interactive Tourist Map of Urumqi

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 a typical mass-market travel guide, get a rather unappealing preconception of the city. So, we are unvailing this, [...]

Posted 16 May 2008 † Tewpiq § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (8) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

Ani Muqin Cai Sibe Restaurant, Ürümchi

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 there, we at The New Dominion thought we’d give it (and the rest of Xinjiang) a little bit of [...]

Posted 03 May 2008 † Tewpiq § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,