Over at The Diplomat, Mercy Kuo interviews Darren Byler, an anthropology doctoral candidate at the University of Washington, about how the PRC government is building a database on ethnic Muslim peoples in Xinjiang (Uyghur Biodata Collection in China): Briefly explain why China is collecting Uyghur DNA data, according to a recent report. The state is … Continue reading China’s “Stability Maintenance” Policy Goes Hi-tech in the Remote Far West
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11th-Century Turkic Classic “Kutadgu Bilig” Recited in Chinese at the Great Hall of the People
Wish I could have been there along with former Minister of Culture Wang Meng — a Han who spent part of the Cultural Revolution in Ili laboring among Uyghurs — and central government and Xinjiang dignitaries. I was briefly in Beijing but unaware of the event: On January 18, a new Chinese rendition of the … Continue reading 11th-Century Turkic Classic “Kutadgu Bilig” Recited in Chinese at the Great Hall of the People
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