Tag Archives: tibet

Rabiyä Qadir in Il Manifesto: “Independence is impossible”

When I started studying Xinjiang, I knew I would need a broad array of linguistic resources. I never imagined I would read so much in Italian. Here is my translation, doubtless below par, of a [...]

Xinjiang Links Galore.

After a casual weekend browsing session through my RSS aggregator and email I discovered that there are an unusual amount of interesting Xinjiang related articles floating around the Internet, and so now is as good [...]

Following Protest, Xinjiang Suddenly Makes International News

Since the International Herald Tribune and its parent, The New York Times, ran articles on the Xotän protests yesterday, there has been an explosion of English-language news concerning the protests and the “little-known Turkic Muslim [...]