Podcasts about xinjiang china

“Culture isn't just dead stones and statues; culture is life. Culture is, you know, all the ways in which we move and interact together as peoples.” In 2005, the United Nations agreed to a new framework called Responsibility to Protect (R2P) aimed at preventing genocide and crimes against humanity. However, this norm neglected to protect cultural heritage explicitly, despite the fact that the destruction of cultural heritage, including intangible heritage such as traditions and religious practices, often goes hand in hand with ethnic cleansing. This dynamic is playing out today in Xinjiang China, home to the ethnic minority Uyghur people. In this episode, former Getty President Jim Cuno speaks with Simon Adams, president and CEO of the Center for Victims of Torture, and Rachel Harris, expert on Uyghur culture and professor of ethnomusicology at SOAS, University of London, about the role of the UN in protecting cultural heritage in times of crisis and the current case of the Uyghur people in China. Adams and Harris are contributors to the recent publication Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities, edited by Jim Cuno and Thomas G. Weiss and available free of charge from Getty Publications. For images, transcripts, and more, visit https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/cultural-heritage-under-attack-the-united-nations-and-uyghur-china/ or http://www.getty.edu/podcasts To read Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities, visit https://www.getty.edu/publications/cultural-heritage-mass-atrocities/

Entitled People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), David O'Brien and Melissa Shani Brown's new book focuses upon the ways in which ethnic difference is writ through the banalities of everyday life: who one trusts, what one eats, where one shops, even what time one's clocks are set to (Xinjiang being perhaps one of the only places where different ethnic groups live by different time-zones). In this episode, Julie Yu-Wen Chen talk to David O'Brien and Melissa Shani Brown who are both working at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany now. The conversation unpacks how discourses of Chinese nationalism romanticise empire and promote racialised ways of thinking about Chineseness, how cultural assimilation ('Sinicisation') is being justified through the rhetoric of 'modernisation', how Islamic sites and Uyghur culture are being secularised and commodified for tourist consumption. Julie Yu-Wen Chen is Professor of Chinese Studies at the Department of Cultures at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Dr. Chen serves as one of the editors of the Journal of Chinese Political Science (Springer, SSCI). Formerly, she was chair of Nordic Association of China Studies (NACS) and Editor-in-Chief of Asian Ethnicity (Taylor & Francis). You can find her on University of Helsinki Chinese Studies' website, Youtube and Facebook, and her personal Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Entitled People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), David O'Brien and Melissa Shani Brown's new book focuses upon the ways in which ethnic difference is writ through the banalities of everyday life: who one trusts, what one eats, where one shops, even what time one's clocks are set to (Xinjiang being perhaps one of the only places where different ethnic groups live by different time-zones). In this episode, Julie Yu-Wen Chen talk to David O'Brien and Melissa Shani Brown who are both working at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany now. The conversation unpacks how discourses of Chinese nationalism romanticise empire and promote racialised ways of thinking about Chineseness, how cultural assimilation ('Sinicisation') is being justified through the rhetoric of 'modernisation', how Islamic sites and Uyghur culture are being secularised and commodified for tourist consumption. Julie Yu-Wen Chen is Professor of Chinese Studies at the Department of Cultures at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Dr. Chen serves as one of the editors of the Journal of Chinese Political Science (Springer, SSCI). Formerly, she was chair of Nordic Association of China Studies (NACS) and Editor-in-Chief of Asian Ethnicity (Taylor & Francis). You can find her on University of Helsinki Chinese Studies' website, Youtube and Facebook, and her personal Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/east-asian-studies

Entitled People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), David O'Brien and Melissa Shani Brown's new book focuses upon the ways in which ethnic difference is writ through the banalities of everyday life: who one trusts, what one eats, where one shops, even what time one's clocks are set to (Xinjiang being perhaps one of the only places where different ethnic groups live by different time-zones). In this episode, Julie Yu-Wen Chen talk to David O'Brien and Melissa Shani Brown who are both working at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany now. The conversation unpacks how discourses of Chinese nationalism romanticise empire and promote racialised ways of thinking about Chineseness, how cultural assimilation ('Sinicisation') is being justified through the rhetoric of 'modernisation', how Islamic sites and Uyghur culture are being secularised and commodified for tourist consumption. Julie Yu-Wen Chen is Professor of Chinese Studies at the Department of Cultures at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Dr. Chen serves as one of the editors of the Journal of Chinese Political Science (Springer, SSCI). Formerly, she was chair of Nordic Association of China Studies (NACS) and Editor-in-Chief of Asian Ethnicity (Taylor & Francis). You can find her on University of Helsinki Chinese Studies' website, Youtube and Facebook, and her personal Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/islamic-studies

Entitled People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), David O'Brien and Melissa Shani Brown's new book focuses upon the ways in which ethnic difference is writ through the banalities of everyday life: who one trusts, what one eats, where one shops, even what time one's clocks are set to (Xinjiang being perhaps one of the only places where different ethnic groups live by different time-zones). In this episode, Julie Yu-Wen Chen talk to David O'Brien and Melissa Shani Brown who are both working at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany now. The conversation unpacks how discourses of Chinese nationalism romanticise empire and promote racialised ways of thinking about Chineseness, how cultural assimilation ('Sinicisation') is being justified through the rhetoric of 'modernisation', how Islamic sites and Uyghur culture are being secularised and commodified for tourist consumption. Julie Yu-Wen Chen is Professor of Chinese Studies at the Department of Cultures at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Dr. Chen serves as one of the editors of the Journal of Chinese Political Science (Springer, SSCI). Formerly, she was chair of Nordic Association of China Studies (NACS) and Editor-in-Chief of Asian Ethnicity (Taylor & Francis). You can find her on University of Helsinki Chinese Studies' website, Youtube and Facebook, and her personal Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

Entitled People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), David O'Brien and Melissa Shani Brown's new book focuses upon the ways in which ethnic difference is writ through the banalities of everyday life: who one trusts, what one eats, where one shops, even what time one's clocks are set to (Xinjiang being perhaps one of the only places where different ethnic groups live by different time-zones). In this episode, Julie Yu-Wen Chen talk to David O'Brien and Melissa Shani Brown who are both working at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany now. The conversation unpacks how discourses of Chinese nationalism romanticise empire and promote racialised ways of thinking about Chineseness, how cultural assimilation ('Sinicisation') is being justified through the rhetoric of 'modernisation', how Islamic sites and Uyghur culture are being secularised and commodified for tourist consumption. Julie Yu-Wen Chen is Professor of Chinese Studies at the Department of Cultures at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Dr. Chen serves as one of the editors of the Journal of Chinese Political Science (Springer, SSCI). Formerly, she was chair of Nordic Association of China Studies (NACS) and Editor-in-Chief of Asian Ethnicity (Taylor & Francis). You can find her on University of Helsinki Chinese Studies' website, Youtube and Facebook, and her personal Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/chinese-studies

Entitled People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), David O'Brien and Melissa Shani Brown's new book focuses upon the ways in which ethnic difference is writ through the banalities of everyday life: who one trusts, what one eats, where one shops, even what time one's clocks are set to (Xinjiang being perhaps one of the only places where different ethnic groups live by different time-zones). In this episode, Julie Yu-Wen Chen talk to David O'Brien and Melissa Shani Brown who are both working at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany now. The conversation unpacks how discourses of Chinese nationalism romanticise empire and promote racialised ways of thinking about Chineseness, how cultural assimilation ('Sinicisation') is being justified through the rhetoric of 'modernisation', how Islamic sites and Uyghur culture are being secularised and commodified for tourist consumption. Julie Yu-Wen Chen is Professor of Chinese Studies at the Department of Cultures at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Dr. Chen serves as one of the editors of the Journal of Chinese Political Science (Springer, SSCI). Formerly, she was chair of Nordic Association of China Studies (NACS) and Editor-in-Chief of Asian Ethnicity (Taylor & Francis). You can find her on University of Helsinki Chinese Studies' website, Youtube and Facebook, and her personal Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

Entitled People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), David O'Brien and Melissa Shani Brown's new book focuses upon the ways in which ethnic difference is writ through the banalities of everyday life: who one trusts, what one eats, where one shops, even what time one's clocks are set to (Xinjiang being perhaps one of the only places where different ethnic groups live by different time-zones). In this episode, Julie Yu-Wen Chen talk to David O'Brien and Melissa Shani Brown who are both working at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany now. The conversation unpacks how discourses of Chinese nationalism romanticise empire and promote racialised ways of thinking about Chineseness, how cultural assimilation ('Sinicisation') is being justified through the rhetoric of 'modernisation', how Islamic sites and Uyghur culture are being secularised and commodified for tourist consumption. Julie Yu-Wen Chen is Professor of Chinese Studies at the Department of Cultures at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Dr. Chen serves as one of the editors of the Journal of Chinese Political Science (Springer, SSCI). Formerly, she was chair of Nordic Association of China Studies (NACS) and Editor-in-Chief of Asian Ethnicity (Taylor & Francis). You can find her on University of Helsinki Chinese Studies' website, Youtube and Facebook, and her personal Twitter.

In der heutigen Spezialepisode haben wir Theo Kaiser zu Gast, um mit ihm über den UN-Menschenrechtsrat zu sprechen. Theo macht aktuell ein Praktikum bei der deutschen Vertretung bei den Vereinten Nationen in Genf. Dort saß er auch als Vertreter Deutschlands regelmäßig in Sitzungen des UN-Menschenrechtsrats. Wir haben Theo eingeladen, um mit ihm über seinen Arbeitsalltag, den Menschenrechtsrat an sich und insbesondere zwei kontroverse Entscheidungen zu Russland und Xinjiang (China) zu sprechen. Im Falle Russlands entschied der Menschenrechtsrat, einen UN-Sonderberichterstatter nach Russland zu entsenden, um die dortige Lage der Menschenrechte zu untersuchen. Diese Entscheidung ist natürlich eine Reaktion auf den von Russland angezettelten Krieg in der Ukraine und dessen neuerliche Entscheidung, Gebiete in der Ostukraine zu annektieren. Eine sogenannte "Draft Decision", die eine Debatte zur Menschenrechtlsage der Uiguren in der chinesischen Provinz Xinjiang durchgesetzt hätte, wurde jedoch mit einer knappen Mehrheit abgelehnt. Hier kannst du die Episode kommentieren. Hier findest du den Text samt Quellen von Romans Beitrag zum Menschenrechtsrat.

PBB mengeluarkan laporan mengenai pencabulan hak asasi manusia melibatkan etnik Uighur berlaku di wilayah Xinjiang China. Ia turut menyatakan bahawa dakwaan penyeksaan dipercayai boleh berlaku dan kemungkinan jenayah terhadap kemanusiaan. Diskusi #AgendaAWANI 9 mlm di saluran 501 dan astroawani.com.

A federal judge will decide today whether to appoint a special master to review documents removed from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate. Mary Peltola is the first Alaska Native to fill Alaska's only US house seat. The UN Commission on Human Rights released a damning report detailing abuses against ethnic Uyghurs in Xinjiang China.

Tuesday is "E"-day: Enforcement day of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act which presumes all goods made in whole or part from goods made in Xinjiang China are forced labor goods. Learn more on today's Two Minutes in Trade

--On the Show: --Geoffrey Cain, Fellow in Critical Emerging Technologies at the Lincoln Policy Network, and author of the book "The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future," joins David to discuss the situation in Xinjiang China affecting the Chinese Uighur population, and much more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/31uZ3cM --Republican Senator Rand Paul pushes dangerous and deceptive misinformation about COVID vaccines --Donald Trump calls for MAGA nation to "rise up" in a derange statement published on the eve of the one year anniversary of the January 6, 2021 Trump riots --Notable discussions from the David Pakman Show subreddit, including about having right-wing friends, Turning Point USA, and much more --The MAGA revolt continues to grow, with former Trumpist lunatics now burning MAGA hats and attacking Donald Trump --A video of Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gasping for air and struggling to speak raises more questions about his two week public absence --MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's phone records have been subpoenaed by the House Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Trump riots --Voicemail caller thinks that eventually we will learn that the COVID pandemic wasn't real but rather a television program, sort of like the fictional Truman Show with Jim Carrey --On the Bonus Show: Karl Rove urges Republicans to take Trump riots seriously, Hannity and Fox News face ethical issues over Trump texts, Maricopa County officials finally ready to say 2020 election is over, much more... ☕ Get up to 40% off + free shipping on Four Sigmatic coffee: https://foursigmatic.com/pakman

On today's Hard Factor..Chipotle announces new healthy fake chorizo bowls, worker exposes Outback Steakhouse's lobster tails, Betty White Challenge, Pabst Blue Ribbon beer making waves with raunchy tweet, Elon Musk announced showroom in Xinjiang China (00:29:35), Keanu Reeves might be the nicest person on Earth, Germany uses sheep to spread covid message, people are dying from Mochi in Japan, the world's oldest woman turns 119, Taliban orders the beheading of all mannequins (00:50:55) (00:00:00) - Timestamps Cup of Coffee in the Big Time (00:06:35) - Fun Fact: All Things Spaghetti (00:09:30) - Holidays: World Hypnotism Day & National Spaghetti Day (00:12:05) - This Day in History: 1964 Patsy T. Mink Sworn In As First Woman Of Color In Congress & 2007 Nancy Pelosi Becomes First Female Speaker of The House (00:14:25) - Trending Mentions: David Koechner AKA Champ Kind Arrested For Dui & Tesla Stock Soars, RIP Jay Weaver (00:19:50) - #3 - Chipotle Unleashes Fake Chorizo Bowls & You Won't Believe How Outback Steakhouse Cooks Their Lobster Tails (00:22:55) - #2 - Betty White Challenge Asks You To Donate To Animal Shelters In Betty's Name On January 17th (00:24:35) - #1 - Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer “Eat Ass” Tweet (00:29:35) - Elon Musk Announces He's Opening A Tesla Showroom In Xinjiang China, A Region Known For Enslaving And Killing Uyghur Muslims (00:35:40) - Will Tells Us About How Great Keanu Reeves Actually Is With A Feel Good Story To Kick Off 2022 Right TikTok International Moment (00:43:20) - Germany - Hundreds Of Goats & Sheep Arranged To Form Shape Of Syringe To Promote Vaccinations (00:45:50) - Japan - Popular Dessert Mochi Is Killing Old People At Alarming Rate (00:49:05) - Japan - The World's Oldest Person Celebrates Her 119th Birthday (00:50:55) - Afghanistan - Taliban Orders Mannequins Heads Be Chopped Off These stories, and much more, brought to you by our incredible sponsors: Birddogs - http://BirdDogs.com; Promo Code: Factor; Free Bonus Gift w/ your INCREDIBLE Pants/Shorts PredictIt - http://PredictIt.org/promo/HARDFACTOR40 to get up to $40 matched on your first deposit in the stock market of politics Go to store.hardfactor.com and patreon.com/hardfactor to support the pod with incredible merch and bonus podcasts Leave us a Voicemail at 512-270-1480, send us a voice memo to hardfactorvoicemail@gmail.com, and/or leave a 5-Star review on Apple Podcasts to hear it on Friday's show Other Places to Listen: Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Lots More... Watch Full Episodes on YouTube Follow @HardFactorNews on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook

Intel apologizes to China following backlash China's Xi'an city under strict lockdown Lithuania MP: Communism is in trash can of history 3 Chinese vax doses ineffective vs. Omicron: Study HK University removes Tiananmen massacre statue

Na de vorige aflevering aangekomen te zijn in Ürümqi in Xinjiang - de regio in China die regelmatig in het nieuws is vanwege de onderdrukking van de Oeigoerse bevolking - reizen we vandaag dieper en dieper de regio in en bezoeken we Turpan. Hoor in hoeverre wij iets merken van de politiestaat en ontdek een belangrijke plek van de Zijderoute en en een van de bewaard gebleven oude steden ter wereld: Jiaohe. www.alongwithannika.com/e30-reispodcast-reizen-in-xinjiang-china-turpan www.instagram.com/alongwithannika 

Congress appears on a path to pass a law banning imports of goods made in whole or in part in Xinjiang China but differing versions mean they must be reconciled. Listen for more on today's Two Minutes In Trade.

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USTR and DOL join State, Treasury, Commerce & Homeland Security in doubling down on business advisory regarding forced labor in Xinjiang China in the supply chain. Listen and learn on today's Two Minutes In Trade.

Kissinger Institute experts Rui Zhong and Bradley Jardine stop in to discuss Xinjiang and the challenge this particular human rights issue poses for policymakers.

Hey everyone!Everyone’s been asking me why Bitcoin crashed $10,000 a couple days ago, seemingly overnight…Honestly, I have no idea, but Willy Woo does! :)Here’s the thread, I would encourage you to read through it if you are interested…Basically it looks like it was a combination of things….1) Giant power outage in Xinjiang China (which was known ahead of time by someone in China with a lot of Bitcoin)2) Someone with 9,000 BTC who knew the power outage was coming, moving his coins to sell…3) The combination of the sell off of those coins, plus the blackout temporarily reduced the Bitcoin hash rate…4) caused massive liquidations in the trading market which sent the price plummeting…That’s a very high level explanation, see the thread for more details.But the REAL question is, does it matter?I hate to break it to you, but later in the year, when Bitcoin is crashing from $200,000 down to $150,000 in one day, this is going to seem like small potatoes….I hate to break it to you again, but this is WHAT BITCOIN DOES…..Price swings like this are what you PAY for in order to get FREEDOM and MASSIVE UPSIDE.What do I mean by this?For instance, let’s take more “traditional” markets, like the stock market, say Apple stock specifically.If Apple stock crashed 20% in a few minutes, likely the rest of the market would do the same.The federal reserve would instantly go into a panic, and wall street would get bailed out, yet again.They would print trillions and trillions and inject the market with liquidity.Bitcoin has no such circuit breakers.The market doesn’t stop trading if the price starts to fall.The market doesn’t even stop trading at 5pm for the end of the “work day”.It is open, free, completely decentralized, and out of anyones control.In order to go from fringe experiment to World Reserve Currency, without the help of these traditional institutions, there are going to be swings, plain and simple.The good news is, these swings, over a longer period of time, have equaled 200% YEAR OVER YEAR RETURNS FOR THE LAST 12 YEARS.It’s the best performing asset of all time.And the good news is, if you know what you’re buying, these price swings affect you exactly ZERO percent.Was I stressed out when my wife was like “what the hell is going on!” at midnight the other night as I watched the price crash?No, I was checking my bank balance seeing if I had any money to buy more at these lower prices.Why is that?Because NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING has changed about the investment case for Bitcoin.World Governments haven’t stopped the money printing binge, and they never will.There’s still only 21 Million Bitcoin.The institutions are still coming and buying in force.There LITERALLY aren’t enough coins to go around (record number of coins being purchased and taken off exchanges, never to be seen again)The past Bitcoin cycles place us at MAYBE halfway through this bull run. Which means we have AT LEAST 2-3x upside from here, THIS YEAR, probably 4-5x.So, yeah, these dips might scare people who are crazy and trading with leverage or who don’t understand what they are actually buying. For me, it’s just an opportunity to scoop up more coins.Remember how it seems “crazy” that anyone could have bought Bitcoin under $10,000?Like, that would have been such an INSANE opportunity, right?That’s EXACTLY how people are going to feel about $60,000 in about 3 months…See you tomorrow if you’re subscribed!Kale Get on the email list at thekaleletter.substack.com

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Rushan Abbas, founder and executive director of Campaign for Uighurs. She discusses the alleged mass detention of 3 million Uighurs in Xinjiang China, members of her family that have disappeared in Xinjiang, the actual number of Uighurs in China, which she alleges to be much higher than the official figure, clarifications on her work at Guantanamo Bay and work with US intelligence agencies and much more! Finally, we speak to Prof. Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University. He discusses the trial of police officer Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd, why diversity training doesn’t work, why the American story is not one of oppression but one of struggling to live up to the founding ideals of the nation, the alleged rise of ‘cancel culture’ and suppression of conservative thought, the transformation of the American left and much more!

Western countries and media have recently attacked China around the Xinjiang issue. I want to ask them a few common sense questions.China Explained will show you that because of China's continued success in industrial upgrading, technological innovation and realizing its huge potential, it is an unstoppable process. The inevitable rise of China may feel intimidating and some simply reject it. Don't be. China's rise is part of the new global trend unlike what we have seen in the past one hundred years. Embrace the change and seize the opportunity.Creating original content is hard work, your support is what keeps me going. Please donate to this channel: paypal.me/ChinaExplained

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Beijing has been subjecting the ethnic Uighur minority in the region of Xinjiang to repressions for years. Now, it has grown into a form of cultural warfare that even affects Uighurs in exile. Human rights activists say China is committing genocide.

Overal camera’s en moskeeën die niet op de foto mogen. In deze aflevering reizen we af naar de Xinjiang provincie in China, de regio die helaas vaak op het nieuws is vanwege het onderdrukken van de Oeigoerse minderheid en het opsluiten van deze bevolkingsgroep in strafkampen. Vandaag gaan we de grens over en maken we kennis met de regio en haar hoofdstad: Ürümqi. www.alongwithannika.com/e29-reispodcast-reizen-in-xinjiang-china-urumqi.  www.instagram.com/alongwithannika 

Laura and Jasmin explain the current situation in Xinjiang China regarding the Uigher Muslims and why our current international criminal system is doing nothing about it.

Yvonne Murray visits Xinjiang, the Uighur autonomous region, following on reports of forced labour and mass suppression of the Uighir people.

This week, Glen and Paul chat to Scott Dunford, host of the Missions Podcast and who has spent time living amongst the Uighur people of Xinjiang China. Scott shares his thoughts on the current human rights abuses going on there.Support the show (https://speaklife.org.uk/give/)

Credit: Carolyn DrakeHello from the greater Sea-Tac area!Andy and Tammy here with a bonus episode, interviewing Darren Byler, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado and an expert on the Uyghur people, a Muslim community in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China. Darren’s years of anthropological research in Xinjiang will be published in a forthcoming book titled Terror Capitalism. Until then, you can find his work at SupChina, Made in China journal, and his own site, “art of life in Chinese Central Asia.” He has also written specially about surveillance technologies in Xinjiang. 5:30 - Is it true that right-wing voices dominate the international conversation about the Uyghurs of Xinjiang? Why isn’t the international left more vocal?9:50 – What is Xinjiang? Who are the Uyghurs? And how has the relationship between Uyghurs and Han (ethnic Chinese) people changed from the 1950s to the present? In recent decades, Xinjiang has become a source for energy resources, the cotton in our clothing, and the tomatoes in our food. We recount the path from “opening up the west” (1990s) to “the people’s war on terror” (2000-10s) to the most recent “reeducation camps.”21:05 – Darren argues that the moralistic paradigm of “cultural difference” and “ethnic genocide” are inadequate. He explains why we need a broader analysis of the social forces producing violence, exploitation, and state repression. Hint: capitalism? Also, how has China appropriated the US’s rhetoric of “war on terror” to racialize the Muslim Uyghurs? Aka “I learned it by watching you, Dad!”Referenced: a new report on Uyghur labor in export-oriented factories in China (Australian Strategic Policy Institute)56:50 – What’s a good leftist to do? Is it okay to back right-wingers who call China morally evil? What are potential avenues for international solidarity (what about the Uyghur diaspora? the Chinese diaspora?)? Also, Darren cites recommended reading on the region and tells us what traps to avoid — and also defends journalists at The New York Times (the ones who wrote this) against Andy’s snobbish dismissal of reportage! Outro: an excerpt from “Uchrashqanda,” by the Uyghur singer and dutar player Abdurehim Heyit, who was imprisoned by the Chinese authorities and has not been heard from since last year.Links:Camp Album project: a multimedia collection by Xinjiang diasporaThe Xinjiang Documentation Project at the University of British ColumbiaFrom the same site, Chinese translations of English publications on XinjiangHistorian David Brophy’s modern account of the region Get on the email list at goodbye.substack.com

In this episode, I talk to the incredible painter, Susanna Coffey about her life and work. We dive into Susanna’s childhood, how she discovered art, the work she did with others during her time in school, feminism, her palette, her love of teaching, and so many other topics. I sincerely mean it when I say, I had such a wonderful time talking to Susanna and I’m positive that you will enjoy this interview.  Susanna Coffey’s portraits are investigations of the iconic human head. The work is driven by questions about what a portrait image can mean. What is a beautiful appearance? Why do conventionally gendered images involve caricature? Can inchoate feeling-states be adequately portrayed? Meticulously observed, most works show her in many guises and locations: under dramatic lighting, highly costumed, inside a studio, within landscapes, foliage, places of fiery devastation, and amidst phantasmagoric patterns. Some portraits seem almost entirely abstract with only the barest suggestion of a human face. Coffey’s artwork has been exhibited in many museums including The Weatherspoon Art Museum, The Aldrich Museum, The Hood Museum, The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work is in the collections of The Yale University Art Gallery, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Minneapolis Museum of Art, The National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., The Karamay Museum of Art, Xinjiang China and Museum of Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain, among others. Among her awards are The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Susanna Coffey lives and works in New York City Susanna Coffey’s work is represented by Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects in New York City, Alpha Gallery in Boston and Galeria Isabel Ignacio in Seville, Spain. RESOURCES: I Like Your Work Podcast Studio Planner Instagram Submit Work Observations on Applying to Juried Shows   http://www.susannacoffey.com/ http://www.alphagallery.com/artists/#/susanna-coffey http://shfap.com/artist/susanna-coffey/

I interviewed long term American Expat in China Josh Summers who had lived in Xinjiang region for over a decade since 2006 about life living there. 

This is the opus 2 of Silk Road, an imaginary musical caravan traveling across the mythic ancient road, 1h45 set mixing electronic & world music. Deep musical immersion, when four continents meet electronic music. Musical journey mixing electronic, ethnic sounds, vocals, organic instruments, melodic vocals as well as spiritual chanting. The Taklamakan Desert is located in the Xinjiang (China), part of the Silk Road, an ancient network of trade routes that connected the East and West and it allowed cultural interactions between the regions for many centuries. Music is healing... Enjoy it, share & comment if you like it. )*( Artists featured in this set: Rapossa, DBRA, Monoart, Rhemus, Daniel Navrotsky, Billy Esteban, FISHMANTA, Namito, Paji, Andre P, Droomie, MI.LA, Gil Ron Shama, Boshoco, Orkidz, T-Puse, Sangeet, ÜNAM, Jean Vayat, Ali Kuru, Hrag Mikkel, Tebra, Derun, Soul Of Zoo, Swa Swally, Ask, Mynox, Alexander Metzger. Download for free on The Artist Union

This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser and Jeremy speak with Christian Shepherd, the Beijing correspondent for the Financial Times. They discuss his debut long-form piece for the FT, Fear and oppression in Xinjiang: China’s war on Uighur culture, dive into the policy drivers behind the assimilation efforts being carried out by the central government in Xinjiang, and discuss his experiences while reporting from the region.What to listen for on this week’s Sinica Podcast:16:22: In an effort to forcefully assimilate Xinjiang into greater China, public signage in Uyghur has been replaced with Mandarin Chinese, and bookstores have been emptied of Uyghur-language texts. Christian noticed the same trend in legal language: “If you look at policy documents now, in Xinjiang and other regions, there has been that shift [to Mandarin]. The use of hanyu [汉语 hànyǔ, Mandarin Chinese] is diminished. Instead, it’s all guoyu [国语 guóyǔ, national language].” The linguistic replacement is also occurring in schools. Christian states: “In fact, in the schooling system, the emphasis is on that national language, instead of [on] the idea of there being multiple languages that were on an equal status.” 34:26: Have there been any legal efforts to change the language within the Chinese constitution regarding minority policy? Christian explains: “I think there’s a real desire on the part of the Party to continue to pay lip service to the idea of being the champion of minority rights. Clearly, that is what is talked about through all government propaganda, and you see it in billboards all over Xinjiang about how Xi Jinping cares about the rights of the individual, [about] minorities, and about fostering ethnic unity and how that will lead to one great big family nationally.” Recommendations:Jeremy: The Planet Money podcast, particularly episode 939, The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel. Christian: Under Red Skies, by Karoline Kan, and the work of Darren Byler, including his column at SupChina and his blog, Living Otherwise. Kaiser: A documentary, The Brink, by director Alison Klayman.

China has the world’s largest population, is the fourth largest in terms of physical size, and as a result has an incredibly wide variety of environments to explore. On this episode of Talk Travel Asia podcast we’ll dive into traveling China, a country we haven’t covered very much on our podcast, focusing on the northwestern region of Xinjiang. An American living in the region, who has written a travel book and hosts a YouTube show about the area’s exotic offering, will give us a unique insider’s perspective and hopefully pique your interest about this relatively unexplored corner of the People’s Republic of China.

A disagreement between major Indonesian religious leaders and the government on how to respond to China’s crackdown on Turkic Muslims raises questions about the Islamic World’s ability to sustain its silence about what amounts to one of the most concerted assaults on the faith in recent history.

This week Aria tells Mickey and comedian Sam Bowden about the plight of the Uyghur people who are being held in internment camps in Xinjiang, China. We go back in time to when humans first inhabited the region and look at the border wars and struggles of the ancient people who lived in East Turkestan right up until the region was claimed by China and renamed Xinjiang. Then we find out exactly what the deal with these camps is, how much has been spent on them and what's happening to the people inside. We also find out about the flourishing economy of the petrochemical industry in the area. This episode probably won't be available in China....  

Ethnomusicologist Mu Qian reports on the music of the autonomous Xinjiang region, including recordings from the oasis town of Hotan to Xinjiang's first hip-hop band.

According to a recent Amnesty International Report, Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region are the targets of surveillance, arbitrary detention, and forced indoctrination by the Chinese government. Up to 1 million Uyghurs have been detained, says Amnesty's Francisco Bencosme. There are parallels with the Rohingya crisis, yet there has been far less international outcry.

According to a recent Amnesty International Report, Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region are the targets of surveillance, arbitrary detention, and forced indoctrination by the Chinese government. Up to 1 million Uyghurs have been detained, says Amnesty's Francisco Bencosme. There are parallels with the Rohingya crisis, yet there has been far less international outcry.

The clouds in Xinjiang China fell to the ground! The truck drivers are afraid to move forward(due to the water vapor in the cloud being too heavy). This natural phenomenon is very rare. The clouds in Xinjiang China fell to the ground! The truck drivers are afraid to move forward(due to the water vapor in the cloud being too heavy).This natural phenomenon is very rare pic.twitter.com/B3alndxMkG — Ken Rutkowski (@kenradio) September 26, 2018 The post Clouds in Xinjiang China ‘fall to the ground’ appeared first on DAPULSE.

The armies of the Far West Anxi Protectorate of the Tang face down a force commanded by the ascendant Abbasid Islamic Caliphate, fresh off its victorious insurgency over the Umayyad Caliphate. But in this one and only clash between Chinese and Arab might, the ramifications for both will be felt long after the blood dries on the battlefield along the Talas River. Time Period Covered: May- September, 751 Major Historical Figures: Tang Dynasty – Protectorate of Western Pacification Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (Li Longji) Governor-General Fumeng Lingcha Governor-General Gao Xianzhi (Go Seonji) Bian Lingchen, Court Eunuch on Assignment to Anxi Lieutenant Li Siye Officer Duan Xiushi Transoxiana: Lesser Bolü Kingdom (Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan) Shi Kingdom (Tashkent, Uzbekistan) Turgesh Khannate Karluk (Qarluq) Turks Tibetan Empire Abbasid Islamic Caliphate: Governor Ziyad ibn Salih Major Works Cited: Bartold, Vasily (1928). Turkestan Down to the Mongol Invasion (Trans. T. Minorsky & C.E. Bosworth). Chen, Sanping (2012). Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages. Golden, Peter B. (1990). “The Kharakhanids and early Islam” in The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia, vol. 1 (ed. Denis Sinor). Hoberman, Barry (Sept/Oct. 1982). “The Battle of Talas” in Aramco World, vol. 33 no. 5. Ibn al-Athir, Ali (ca. 1231) The Complete History. Sima, Guang (1084). Zizhi Tongjian. Soucek, Svak (2000). A History of Inner Asia. Starr, S. Frederick (2004). Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland. Szczepanski, Susan (2015). “Battle of Talas River” in About.com: http://asianhistory.about.com/od/centralasia/a/BattleofTalas.htm Tsien Tsuen-hsuin (1985). “Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 1: Paper and Printing.” In Science and Civilization in China: Vol. 5. Twitchett, Denis (ed.) (1979).“Hsuang-Tsüng: Li-Lin Fu's Regime” in The Cambridge History of China, vol. 3.