Three years on from riots and mass arrests in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Chinese authorities continue to silence those speaking out on abuses during and in the wake of the unrest… New testimony reveals that dozens, if not hundreds, of the Uighur ethnic minority, many of whom were arrested in the wake of the … More Scenes from Urumqi, five days before 5 July 2009
It is a temperate afternoon in Beijing and the dust levels in the air are low, as the sands that blow in from the Gobi in subtle obfuscating layers of golden hue during the Springtime have yet to make their more forceful migration. Calm throngs of pedestrians meander past the 17th century Yonghegong, 雍和宮, The … More Qingming Jie (清明节): On Death and Brightness
This episode of the Sinica podcast offers a great range of topics. Kasier Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn eruditely and entertainingly as ever guide China Heritage Quarterly editor, Australian National University Professor, and veteran China expert Geremie R Barme through the halls of remembering history at Hangzhou’s bucolic West Lake. From there they move into an … More China in the World by Sinica
“What are your immediate thoughts on the election?” “I am really angry! That is all,” Myriam explained through a facebook chat. Myriam is a university graduate in her mid twenties who has studied in Europe and recently returned to Tunisia. At a small couchsurfing gathering at a friend’s apartment I started speaking with Mouna about … More A Feminist (trans)election Barometer
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