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Uyghurs don’t need to be saved. Their stories need to be mainstreamed
Poets — and the musicians who perform their lyrics — are at the forefront of Uyghur culture. If they were to be given even limited…
1.5 million Muslims are in China’s camps — scholar
Adrian Zenz is a researcher at the European School of Culture and Theology in Korntal, Germany. Last year, he played a pivotal role in documenting…
Photos of the Day: Views of Urumqi and Kashgar
Last month, I took a trip to Xinjiang — specifically, Urumqi and Kashgar. My trip was booked for 10 days, from January 27 to February 5…
‘The night is thick’: Uyghur poets respond to the disappearance of their relatives
Poetry has a long and proud tradition in Uyghur culture. But it is being threatened in Xinjiang, where the Chinese state has been attempting to re-engineer Uyghur society by silencing and eliminating Uyghur cultural thought.
After year-long stint in detention camp, Uyghur footballer Erfan Hezim signs with new Chinese club
The China Sports Column is a The China Project weekly feature in which China Sports Insider Mark Dreyer looks at the week that was in the China sports world…
Ankara to Beijing: Xinjiang is ‘a great shame for humanity’
Image: From recent protest in Brussels against China’s re-education camps for Uyghurs (AFP) The government of Turkey has strongly condemned China’s treatment of Uyghurs in an…
The future of Uyghur cultural — and halal — life in the Year of the Pig
Up until 2018, Lunar New Year celebrations were conspicuously absent from Uyghur society. Today, it is the largest cultural event of the year — for the wrong reasons.
Conditions are worsening for foreign journalists in China
Last year, foreign journalists in China saw the greatest level of surveillance, interference with sources, and visa denial or control in recent memory, with the…
Kazakhs to leave, but who will speak for the Uyghurs?
NPR reports: China is letting more than 2,000 ethnic Kazakhs drop their Chinese citizenship and leave the country, according to Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry. The Associated…
The latest grim news from Xinjiang
Darren Byler writes on The China Project that “Uyghur ‘patriotism’ in China’s Xinjiang region now requires the active disavowal of the Uyghur way of life…
The ‘patriotism’ of not speaking Uyghur
Urumqi No. 1 Primary school, 2018: Uyghur script “disappeared.” Photo by Joanne Smith Finley Uyghur “patriotism” now requires the active disavowal of the Uyghur way…
Indonesia and the Xinjiang internment camps
In “Elite maneuvering, the Uyghur crisis, and Indonesian politics,” Tom Pepinsky annotates a Twitter thread that looks at the Indonesian government’s difficulties in criticizing the…
Forced labor in Xinjiang camps
Emily Feng of the Financial Times reports that Xinjiang’s internment camps have begun forcing their detainees to do manual labor making textiles and other products. Excerpt: In…
Spying on the Uyghurs
“Spying on the Uyghurs: A first-person account from a Han Chinese student” is the title of a translated essay on the Taiwan Gazette by a…
‘As if you’ve spent your whole life in prison’: Starving and subdued in Xinjiang detention centers
When Chinese state authorities prepared to release Gulbahar Jelil, an ethnic Uyghur woman born and raised in Kazakhstan, they told her that she was forbidden to…
Ningxia to learn from Xinjiang ‘experiences in promoting social stability’
Since China’s mass detention of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang was first documented in detail earlier this year, observers have wondered and worried about where the…
Xinjiang and talk of ‘concentration camps’
The Central Asia Program at George Washington University is organizing an event called Symposium on China’s Mass Incarceration of Uyghurs on November 27. Speakers include…
15 Western ambassadors raise concerns about Xinjiang in letter
A significant development in the international response to the situation in Xinjiang: A group of 15 foreign ambassadors in China, all from Europe other than…
People’s Daily on forced homestays in Xinjiang
State media is reporting on China’s nightmarish program of forced homestays in Uyghur homes in Xinjiang. This is from the Global Times: Until September 2018…
Mass relocations in Xinjiang
Xinhua News Agency reports: About 160,000 farmers and herders in the poverty-stricken areas of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region will be relocated to ensure…