Tag Archives: Uighur

2013: A Non Han-Centric (Uyghur) Perspective on Chinese History

Posted on 09/17/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Many countries have founding myths. The U.S. has George Washington and the cherry tree, an innocuous myth illustrating the characters of one of the founders. A pernicious one is the “Last Cause” myth of the American South that idealized the … Continue reading →

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2022: When Han Lockdowns End, Will They Remember the Uyghurs in the Camps?

Posted on 12/05/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The author is anonymous — the Chinese authorities are very efficient at finding and harassing the family and friends of people who speak out — so that is understandable. The author is clearly well-acquainted with the civil rights struggle in … Continue reading →

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Poem: Song of the Hammer and Sickle Gang

Posted on 08/08/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Today on Twitter I saw a poem by Ilshat H. Kokbore @HKokbore apparently inspired by photos of a woman clothed in the flag of the Chinese Communist Party — a hammer and sickle, representing the workers and the peasants, with … Continue reading →

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Late 1990s Reading Notes: PRC Scholars on Xinjiang

Posted on 12/08/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

While working in the US Embassy Beijing Environment, Science and Technology Section in the late 1990s, I collected some books on Xinjiang. I went on a ten-day trip there in 1997 planning to do a report on desertification and implementation … Continue reading →

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1990s: PRC Scholars on Xinjiang — Analysis and Policy Recommendations

Posted on 08/09/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Here are some reading notes I made while working in the U.S. Embassy Beijing Environment, Science and Technology Section (1996 – 2001). These I have copied from the old U.S. Embassy Beijing website preserved on the Internet Archive. Here I … Continue reading →

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2009: Ilham Tohti on Xinjiang’s Economic Development and the Relationship Among the Nationalities

Posted on 06/24/2015 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Xinjiang’s Economic Development and the Relationship Among the Nationalities [A 2009 article on economic development and government sponsored migrations that have accentuated ethnic frictions in the Xinjiang Autonomous region by an ethnic Uighur scholar, Professor Ilham Tohti of China’s Central … Continue reading →

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2011: Prof. Ilham Tohti — Beware of the Danger of Exaggerating the Xinjiang Independence Issue

Posted on 05/26/2011 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Prof. Ilham Tohti: Beware of the Danger of Exaggerating the Xinjiang Independence Issue [Translation of a summary of a Radio France International Chinese service interview with Prof. Ilham Tohti on the Radio France International website at http://www.rfi.fr/actucn/articles/111/article_12553.asp ] Why did … Continue reading →

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