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Follow-Up: Swedish Uyghur Accused of Espionage for China – Sweden and China Duel Diplomats

Posted by Tewpiq on June 24, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

On 4 June 2009, the Swedish Security Police (Säpo) took into custody a 61-year-old Uyghur man, a former refugee and now Swedish citizen, on charges of espionage. Now, that man’s identity has finally been revealed. [...]

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Xanliq Madrasa Demolished – Played Important Role in Kashgar’s History

Posted by Tewpiq on June 18, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

Update: Radio Free Asia’s Uyghur service has now posted an article on the demolition. On 15 June 2009, around 10:30 AM local time, wrecking crews working on the “renewal” of Kashgar’s Old City demolished the [...]

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Swedish Uyghur Arrested on Charges of Espionage

Posted by Tewpiq on June 10, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

On 4 June 2009, the Swedish Security Police (Säpo) arrested a Uyghur man in Stockholm on charges of espionage. The man in question, whose identity is otherwise undisclosed, is 61 years of age, received asylum [...]

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Old Kashgar: Reconfiguring Space With Bulldozers

Posted by Tewpiq on May 28, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

Word of Old Kashgar’s imminent destruction has reached The New York Times. The story broke in the American media back in March with the Washington Post, was picked up by the Emirati The National, and [...]

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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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Turkistan Islamic Party on Pakistan-China extradition: translation

Posted by Tewpiq on May 12, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

Recently, we linked to a video of a spokesman for the Turkistan Islamic Party (Türkistan Islam Partiyisi (TIP) تۈركىستان ئىسلام پارتىيىسى) responding to the news that 9 Uyghurs had been arrested in Pakistan and extradited [...]

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Rabiyä Qadir in Il Manifesto: “Independence is impossible”

Posted by Tewpiq on May 10, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

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 [...]

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IETab for Reading Uyghur in Firefox

Posted by Porfiriy on February 17, 2009 under Language in Xinjiang

Firefox is delightful. I use it, and you should too. However, for the small demographic of Uyghur-reading Firefox readers, there’s the problem that on many pages the Uyghur script doesn’t render correctly. It’s a bummer, [...]

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Down a Narrow Road: Identity and Masculinity in a Uyghur Community in Xinjiang China

Posted by Tewpiq on February 04, 2009 under Reviews of Xinjiang Material

Just yesterday, I was flipping through an old photocopy of Dr. Jay Dautcher’s Berkeley PhD dissertation in Anthropology, “Folklore and identity in a Uighur community in Xinjiang China”. It’s an excellent read, and it’s based [...]

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Adel Hakimjan

Posted by Tewpiq on January 08, 2009 under Society and Culture in Xinjiang

The BBC has just put up a story on Adel Hakimjan, a.k.a. Adel (Adil) Abdul Hakim or Adel Abdulhehim, one of the five Uyghur detainees in Guantanamo initially taken in by Albania. Adel, 34, describes [...]

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Miami Herald on Guantanamo Uyghurs

Posted by Tewpiq on December 27, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

The Miami Herald ran an article on the Guantanamo Uyghur detainees yesterday.  It is remarkably sympathetic, based as much as seems to have been possible on research and direct observation, and avoids the sensationalism usually [...]

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US Official on Guantanamo Uyghurs: “China is the only country that wants them back.”

Posted by Tewpiq on December 13, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

Today, Portugal announced its willingness to take in some Guantanamo detainees as refugees and encouraged other members of the European Union to follow suit.  The Uyghur detainees, as is increasingly common, are receiving especial media [...]

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