Uyghur poet's memoir recalls the Xinjiang administration's retrospective hunt for unPC content in textbooks once commissioned, edited and published by the state: Following the Urumchi incident in 2009, the regional government had initiated the Looking Back Project (新疆回头看). The Propaganda Department organized special groups to go over Uyghur-language books, newspapers, journals, films, television shows, and … Continue reading 新疆回头看 — Xinjiang’s Ominous “Looking Back Project”
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Ethnic ChinaLit: What We’re Reading now — “Waiting to Be Arrested at Night”
At Penguin's web site, Peter Hessler, author of River Town, has this to say about this novel by the Uyghur poet: Among our scattered glimpses of the Uyghur catastrophe in China — the digital surveillance, the mass arrests, the reeducation camps — it seems impossible to imagine the survival of any individual creative sensibility. But … Continue reading Ethnic ChinaLit: What We’re Reading now — “Waiting to Be Arrested at Night”
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