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Wed, 17 May 2023 14:33:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 https://thechinaproject.com/2023/05/17/xinjiang-and-the-global-rise-of-mass-surveillance/ Wed, 17 May 2023 11:01:09 +0000 https://thechinaproject.com/?p=274820 https://thechinaproject.com/2023/04/05/when-does-cruelty-become-brutality-on-state-violence-in-northwest-china/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 18:01:28 +0000 https://thechinaproject.com/?p=272943 https://thechinaproject.com/2023/03/08/xinjiang-hong-kong-taiwan-and-beyond/ Wed, 08 Mar 2023 09:58:47 +0000 https://thechinaproject.com/?p=271543 https://thechinaproject.com/2023/02/08/canada-a-new-uyghur-homeland/ Wed, 08 Feb 2023 05:49:43 +0000 https://thechinaproject.com/?p=264099 https://thechinaproject.com/2022/12/08/uyghurs-in-urumchi-in-protest/ Thu, 08 Dec 2022 22:40:51 +0000 https://thechinaproject.com/?p=250025 https://thechinaproject.com/2022/09/15/the-backstreets-by-perhat-tursun-a-xinjiang-novel-before-its-time/ Thu, 15 Sep 2022 04:03:19 +0000 https://thechinaproject.com/?p=238781 https://thechinaproject.com/2022/06/01/an-anonymous-letter-from-a-uyghur-in-china/ Wed, 01 Jun 2022 10:59:28 +0000 https://supchina.com/?p=226576 https://thechinaproject.com/2022/03/02/in-xinjiang-a-new-normal-under-a-new-chief-and-also-more-of-the-same/ Wed, 02 Mar 2022 18:29:31 +0000 https://supchina.com/?p=221609 https://thechinaproject.com/2021/12/01/xinjiang-on-technology-and-crimes-against-humanity/ Thu, 02 Dec 2021 04:10:58 +0000 https://supchina.com/?p=214389 https://thechinaproject.com/2021/09/01/why-xinjiang-is-an-internal-settler-colony/ Wed, 01 Sep 2021 17:50:42 +0000 https://supchina.com/?p=209904 Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City, published by Duke University Press (December 2021).]]> https://thechinaproject.com/2021/07/07/ethnic-extinction-in-northwest-china/ Wed, 07 Jul 2021 17:24:13 +0000 https://supchina.com/?p=207820 https://thechinaproject.com/2021/05/05/the-reciter-a-uyghur-familys-pride-and-downfall/ Wed, 05 May 2021 18:03:12 +0000 https://supchina.com/?p=205272 The Reciter: A Uyghur family's pride — and downfall – The China Project Nurali, after memorizing the Quran at age 14, brought immense pride to his family. But back home in Xinjiang, his mother, who financed his studies, was accused of abetting "terrorism," and sentenced to 16.5 years in prison. Xinjiang,Xinjiang Column https://thechinaproject.com/2021/03/03/truth-and-reconciliation-excerpts-from-the-xinjiang-clubhouse/ Wed, 03 Mar 2021 18:52:52 +0000 https://supchina.com/?p=202873 https://thechinaproject.com/2021/01/06/life-after-xinjiang-detainment/ Wed, 06 Jan 2021 17:47:40 +0000 https://supchina.com/?p=200394 ‘Only when you, your children, and your grandchildren become Chinese’: Life after Xinjiang detainment - The China Project Nurlan Kokteubai is a 56-year-old Kazakh teacher who was detained for seven months in a Xinjiang camp for unspecified crimes. He suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after being released, and has only chosen to tell his story now because he has nothing left to lose. Xinjiang,Xinjiang Column https://thechinaproject.com/2020/11/04/han-chinese-views-from-xinjiang/ Wed, 04 Nov 2020 13:25:01 +0000 https://supchina.com/?p=198276 https://thechinaproject.com/2020/09/02/uyghur-care-taking-and-the-isolation-of-reeducation/ Wed, 02 Sep 2020 16:57:15 +0000 https://supchina.com/?p=194772 https://thechinaproject.com/2020/08/05/the-bright-future-of-chinese-life-in-xinjiang/ Wed, 05 Aug 2020 18:03:56 +0000 https://supchina.com/?p=193689 https://thechinaproject.com/2020/07/01/the-imprisonment-of-the-model-villagers/ Wed, 01 Jul 2020 20:28:59 +0000 https://supchina.com/?p=192279 The imprisonment of the ‘model villagers’: Two Uyghur sisters on what it means to lose their family and way of life - The China Project For the family of sisters Nursiman and Nur’iman, a local work brigade placed a small red plaque with five stars on it to the front gate of their house. The stars stood for “patriotism, honesty, education, hygiene, and harmony.” But in the end, that didn't stop the sisters' parents and brother from being sent to jail for reasons that remain murky to this day. Imprisonment,Turkey,uyghurs,Xinjiang Column https://thechinaproject.com/2020/05/06/his-dictionaries-taught-chinese-to-the-uyghur-world/ Wed, 06 May 2020 04:00:00 +0000 https://spch.dialoguetheory.com/2020/05/06/his-dictionaries-taught-chinese-to-the-uyghur-world/ His dictionaries taught Chinese to the Uyghur world. Then he was taken away - The China Project This month's Xinjiang Column profiles Hüsenjan, a Uyghur who worked for the Chinese state to create Chinese-Uyghur dictionaries that helped make the new world — one of technology, finance, and commerce — accessible for his people. He invented new terms and was widely respected by his peers. And then, last year, he disappeared. Society,SupNews,Xinjiang,Xinjiang Column https://thechinaproject.com/2020/04/01/a-uyghur-daughter-alone-in-america-during-a-pandemic/ Wed, 01 Apr 2020 04:00:00 +0000 https://spch.dialoguetheory.com/2020/04/01/a-uyghur-daughter-alone-in-america-during-a-pandemic/ ‘Heaviness in the stomach’: Reflections of a Uyghur daughter left behind - The China Project Last month, Akida Pulat celebrated her birthday alone. It was her third birthday since her mother, Uyghur anthropologist Rahile Dawut, had disappeared in Northwest China. In this month's Xinjiang Column, Akida shares her experiences of what it's like to be left behind with only questions, no answers. SupNews,Xinjiang,Xinjiang Column https://thechinaproject.com/2020/03/04/sealed-doors-and-positive-energy-covid-19-in-xinjiang/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 05:00:00 +0000 https://spch.dialoguetheory.com/2020/03/04/sealed-doors-and-positive-energy-covid-19-in-xinjiang/ Sealed doors and ‘positive energy’: COVID-19 in Xinjiang – The China Project A recent joke from Urumchi goes like this: "When will people in Xinjiang be allowed to go outside? When the last patient in Wuhan is cured.” Although there have only been several dozen reported cases of the coronavirus in Xinjiang, lockdowns within the region have created widespread forms of stress and panic. Coronavirus,COVID-19,Society,SupNews,Xinjiang Column https://thechinaproject.com/2020/02/05/disappearance-of-perhat-tursun-uyghur-worlds-greatest-author/ Wed, 05 Feb 2020 05:00:00 +0000 https://spch.dialoguetheory.com/2020/02/05/disappearance-of-perhat-tursun-uyghur-worlds-greatest-author/ https://thechinaproject.com/2020/01/01/a-decade-of-stories-of-loss-in-xinjiang/ Wed, 01 Jan 2020 05:00:00 +0000 https://spch.dialoguetheory.com/2020/01/01/a-decade-of-stories-of-loss-in-xinjiang/ https://thechinaproject.com/2019/12/04/a-xinjiang-scholars-close-reading-of-the-china-cables/ Wed, 04 Dec 2019 05:00:00 +0000 https://spch.dialoguetheory.com/2019/12/04/a-xinjiang-scholars-close-reading-of-the-china-cables/ https://thechinaproject.com/2019/11/06/ilham-tohtis-sakharov-prize-and-the-desecration-of-uyghur-society/ Wed, 06 Nov 2019 05:00:00 +0000 https://spch.dialoguetheory.com/2019/11/06/ilham-tohtis-sakharov-prize-and-the-desecration-of-uyghur-society/ https://thechinaproject.com/2019/10/02/xinjiang-education-reform-and-the-eradication-of-uyghur-language-books/ Wed, 02 Oct 2019 04:00:00 +0000 https://spch.dialoguetheory.com/2019/10/02/xinjiang-education-reform-and-the-eradication-of-uyghur-language-books/ https://thechinaproject.com/2019/09/04/how-companies-profit-from-forced-labor-in-xinjiang/ Wed, 04 Sep 2019 04:00:00 +0000 https://spch.dialoguetheory.com/2019/09/04/how-companies-profit-from-forced-labor-in-xinjiang/ https://thechinaproject.com/2019/08/07/uyghur-love-in-a-time-of-interethnic-marriage/ Wed, 07 Aug 2019 04:00:00 +0000 https://spch.dialoguetheory.com/2019/08/07/uyghur-love-in-a-time-of-interethnic-marriage/ Uyghur love in a time of interethnic marriage – The China Project Since 2018, there has been a notable rise in articles promoting marriage between Han men and Uyghur women. At a time when many people across China think of Uyghur men as potential terrorists and Uyghur women as potential fashion models, a new interethnic sexual politics is being institutionalized across Xinjiang. Uyghur women — who are characterized as stunningly beautiful and exceptionally caring — are being exoticized and eroticized, even as Han authors warn to resolutely fight the three evils of “ethnic separatism, religious extremism, and violent terrorism.” Marriage,Society,SupNews,Xinjiang,Xinjiang Column https://thechinaproject.com/2019/07/03/requiem-for-the-living-dead-ten-years-after-7-5/ Wed, 03 Jul 2019 04:00:00 +0000 https://spch.dialoguetheory.com/2019/07/03/requiem-for-the-living-dead-ten-years-after-7-5/ https://thechinaproject.com/2019/06/05/a-memorial-to-uyghur-civil-rights-and-the-legacy-of-tiananmen/ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 04:00:00 +0000 https://spch.dialoguetheory.com/2019/06/05/a-memorial-to-uyghur-civil-rights-and-the-legacy-of-tiananmen/ A memorial to Uyghur civil rights and the legacy of Tiananmen - The China Project In 1989, the Uyghur student activist Örkesh, better known in English-language media as Wu'er Kaixi, was one of the leaders of China's nascent — and short-lived — pro-democracy movement on Tiananmen Square. Twenty years later, after mass protests (and riots) in Xinjiang were forcefully put down, Uyghurs who showed any sign of civil disobedience would be categorized in one of three ways: as separatists, extremists, or terrorists. The space for Uyghurs to petition for civil rights — for another Wu'er Kaixi to step up — completely disappeared. Society,SupNews,Tiananmen,Xinjiang,Xinjiang Column https://thechinaproject.com/2019/05/01/truth-hidden-in-the-dark-chinese-international-student-responses-to-xinjiang/ Wed, 01 May 2019 04:00:00 +0000 https://spch.dialoguetheory.com/2019/05/01/truth-hidden-in-the-dark-chinese-international-student-responses-to-xinjiang/ ‘Truth hidden in the dark’: Chinese international student responses to Xinjiang – The China Project Darren Byler, a lecturer at the University of Washington, often gives talks at universities and high schools about Islamophobia and the institutionalized discrimination of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in northwest China. The responses from Chinese international students varies, from insisting only Han natives of China have the authority to speak about the Uyghur “problem” to asking how to get involved in spreading information. Byler notes, "The common themes that emerge are shock and sadness, but also a desire to be courageous and take action." SupNews,Xinjiang,Xinjiang Column https://thechinaproject.com/2019/04/03/uyghur-stories-need-to-be-mainstreamed/ Wed, 03 Apr 2019 04:00:00 +0000 https://spch.dialoguetheory.com/2019/04/03/uyghur-stories-need-to-be-mainstreamed/ Uyghurs don’t need to be saved. Their stories need to be mainstreamed – The China Project Uyghurs are a nation of poets. Poets, and the musicians who perform their lyrics, are the leaders of the nation. If they were to be given even limited forms of autonomy in Xinjiang, poetry might bring their traditions into the present and guide them into the future. But the autonomy they desire is not the same kind of freedom that Marco Rubio stands for when he advocates for Uyghur rights — the American right is in fact still in favor of saving Muslims from themselves. Uyghurs do not need to be saved, or your pity; they need to be heard, and their voices need to be amplified. Culture,poetry,SupNews,Xinjiang,Xinjiang Column https://thechinaproject.com/2019/03/06/uyghur-poets-respond-to-the-disappearance-of-their-relatives/ Wed, 06 Mar 2019 05:00:00 +0000 https://spch.dialoguetheory.com/2019/03/06/uyghur-poets-respond-to-the-disappearance-of-their-relatives/ ‘The night is thick’: Uyghur poets respond to the disappearance of their relatives – The China Project 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. Poets, such as Abdushükür Muhemet, talk about anger and sorrow in their works: "I express this sorrow with my poems. The grief and longing are interlocked in all my poems.” Others say the guilt of having escaped and survived the vast internment camp system for Uyghur, Kazak, and other Muslims in northwest China is sometimes overwhelming, especially because everyone knows a relative or friend who was not so fortunate. Culture,poetry,SupNews,Xinjiang,Xinjiang Column https://thechinaproject.com/2019/02/06/uyghur-cultural-and-halal-life-in-the-year-of-the-pig/ Wed, 06 Feb 2019 05:00:00 +0000 https://spch.dialoguetheory.com/2019/02/06/uyghur-cultural-and-halal-life-in-the-year-of-the-pig/ The future of Uyghur cultural — and halal — life in the Year of the Pig – The China Project Up until 2018, Lunar New Year celebrations were conspicuously absent from Uyghur society. Today, it is the largest cultural event of the year, replacing the sacred holidays of Uyghur traditional life, Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Fitr, and the traditional Uyghur spring festival Nawruz, which are all now forbidden as signs of “religious extremism.” Also, we take a look at a nationally televised "Uyghur cultural performance" for a mostly Han audience in Mekit County on January 19. Culture,SupNews,Uyghur,Xinjiang,Xinjiang Column https://thechinaproject.com/2019/01/02/the-patriotism-of-not-speaking-uyghur/ Wed, 02 Jan 2019 05:00:00 +0000 https://spch.dialoguetheory.com/2019/01/02/the-patriotism-of-not-speaking-uyghur/ The 'patriotism' of not speaking Uyghur | Xinjiang Column | The China Project Uyghur “patriotism” in China's Xinjiang region now requires the active disavowal of the Uyghur way of life. There is an ongoing attempt by Han Chinese authorities to erase a native system of knowledge and the basic elements that make Uyghur life Uyghur: language, religion, and culture. It begins with an insistence on the "national language": Mandarin Chinese. SupNews,Xinjiang,Xinjiang Column https://thechinaproject.com/2018/12/05/starving-and-subdued-in-xinjiang-detention-centers/ Wed, 05 Dec 2018 05:00:00 +0000 https://spch.dialoguetheory.com/2018/12/05/starving-and-subdued-in-xinjiang-detention-centers/ Starving and subdued in Xinjiang detention centers: One woman's story - The China Project 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 tell anyone about what she had experienced over the 15 months in which she was detained. She didn't listen: In an 82-minute interview with Turkey-based channel Pidaiylar Biz, Jelil recounts her ordeal, from the inhumane conditions of her cell to the starvation diet the detainees were given to the political and Chinese language "reeducation" forced upon them. SupNews,Xinjiang,Xinjiang Column