Tag Archives: Xinjiang

Impressions of Kashgar

This is the 1510 Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published on the Chinese web, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. Kashgar, in Xinjiang, is China’s Westernmost city. A traditional stop on the Northern silk road, … Continue reading

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The rawap – a Silk Road lute

I lived in the far west of China in Xinjiang from 2006 to 2010, and I was captivated by the musical heritage of the Uyghur people. Much of their history and entertainment revolve around gatherings of song and dance, and … Continue reading

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Mentally disabled sent to work in Xinjiang causes uproar

A series of disturbing photographs have been passing around the internet: mentally disabled men from Sichuan are being sent to Xinjiang to do manual labor. The Chongqing Business News reports this today, as well as the Tibet Business Daily.

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Bringing the Bohai Sea to Xinjiang

A conference proposes routing seawater from Bohai Gulf to Xinjiang to fight desertification.

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UFO identified in Xinjiang

A UFO spotted in Urumqi is identified as an American Minuteman 3 ICBM. 2009.07.05 riots go unmentioned in Xinjiang newspapers.

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Xinjiang media on the Xinjiang support package

A sixteen-page special supplement to the Xinjiang Metropolis Daily.

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News of the far west

Far West China: Josh Summers blogs about Xinjiang.

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Xinjiang text messaging: spreading rumors and criminal detention

Not long after partial Internet was restored to Xinjiang, and text messaging was restored on January 17, a report emerged about criminal detentions of different people using text message to spread “harmful” information, affecting ethnic unity. Xinjiang Tianshannet (新疆天山网) reports.

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Wang Gang on English and the Cultural Revolution

Wang Gang (王刚) author of the novel English (英格力士), a best-selling novel based on the author’s childhood in Urumqi, Xinjiang during the Cultural Revolution talks to Danwei’s Jeremy Goldkorn. Film shot and edited by Patrick Carr of Mandarin Film.

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Beijing gets a fly-by

Fighter jet fly-by of Beijing and a white paper on Xinjiang.

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