Incarceration of Xinjiang's Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples expanded massively beginning in 2017, but the campaign targeting intellectuals specifically dates back to mid-2014. At the end of Xi Jinping's April visit to Xinjiang, an explosion at the Urumqi train station killed three people and injured nearly 80 others, according to the BBC. Just two months … Continue reading China’s Culture Wars: Opening Salvo in Crackdown on Uyghur Intellectuals