ehhh. @degruyterbrill.bsky.social, this wasn't what I had in mind when I suggested a special volume (which, I don't think ever happened) after your editor censored my introduction. Instead we get Sautman? A look at the bibliography reveals it isn't thorough or good-faith. brill.com/display/titl...
just devastating www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyej...
Shipment from China just arrived!
Turkish vlogger describes the mosque in Toyuq (تۇيۇق)
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These plans do not contain explicit references to Uyghur culture, history, religion, or even Uyghurs as largest population of the city... i'm afraid the transformation of Kashgar has only begun
Call for Applications: Luce/ACLS Collaborative Grant in China Studies, which offers a grant of up to $120,000 to design and implement initiatives over a period of 12-18 months. Letters of intent are due by March 31.
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Stills of a Kashgar knife shop captured from a Vlog posted four months ago...
Aww. @chinadailyusa.bsky.social is thinking about me!!!
Maybe just a moment of discouragement, but between @lauratmurphy.bsky.social censorship @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social, @manuginobili.bsky.social in Hangzhou for an NBA event, and booming tourism in XJ, it’s hard not to feel corporate interests win—and impossible to ignore the Uyghurs left behind
Amazing World Peace Mandala timelapse created by RHIT Communication and Marketing's David Essex and Bryan Cantwell (uploaded and shared with their permission)
youtu.be/E4sHiF3WQKs
A Chinese State Media broadcast that describes some of the Party's strategies to control Tibetan monasteries from within. youtu.be/2-h2Qm0Uhas
Not at all new, but a post last week from Kashgar shows that education officials are doubling down on Sinification in Uyghur majority schools. "说国家通用语言、写国家通用语言文字”已成为校园里的新风尚" Speaking and writing the national common language have become the campus' new trends"
trip down memory lane took me to footage from the Labrang Mosque...now almost ten years ago. youtu.be/cxv-YpWzEpA
The Tashi Kyil monks are on break now, but tune in to see them put the finishing touches on the mandala and stay for its deconstruction www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9qw...
Thanks!
I forget how it goes exactly, but there is a saying about surrounding yourself with people smarter than you. well, that's my strategy. humbled to be part of this team, honored to receive this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity from LUCE/ @acls1919.bsky.social and motivated to make this project special
Big congratulations to @timothyagrose.bsky.social @drdavidtobin.bsky.social @emilyupson.bsky.social, who received a Luce/ACLS Collaborative Grant in China Studies for their project, "Un-Settling Xinjiang: Archiving, Digitizing and Curating Knowledge of Settler Colonial Violence in China and Beyond."
I recorded this talk for a conference I attended virtually after tech difficulties prevented the audience from seeing the slides. The images are pretty powerful. Although not professionally edited, I hate to think that it was just collecting digital dust in my hard drive. youtu.be/7YyA3nUwh9k
make no mistake: the program is about surveillance. the Party forced residents to "open" the one intimate space the existed beyond the reach of the government
lso, as shown in the poster, each family is assigned a cadre. In this case, because the family is "regular" (一般户 ئادەتتىكى ئائىلە) and not "trustworthy" they would be subjected to more overnight stays from their assigned cadre (帮扶干部). for example, archive.ph/9SEgm
Happy when vloggers unwittingly post evidence of state violence in the region. This poster is from the fanghuiju (sometimes called "becoming family--long story) campaign. As shown, each family is designated as either "regular" (true here) "trustworthy" or "untrustworthy..."
I’m guessing the officials’ thoughts are, if we make it easier for Uyghur families to send their children to neigaoban (a boarding school) or college by having few children, then they will voluntarily have fewer children. Of course, “longterm” birth control measures are the real key to the equation
A combination of certificates for having fewer children, a one time 6000rmb subsidy with 150 yuan given each month “long-term” birth control measures are used, and bonus points for children on entrance exams saw new births in this rural Uyghur village drop over 50% in 4 years
Books from China came!!!
In short, this is not "normal"
And yes, sama was performed at Eid...after thousands prayed at the mosque
Children would stay up late--shops would show movies for families to watch together (maybe Bloodsport wasn't the best choice!)
