#Ürümchi

1/ If you travel to Uyghur communities unable to read and speak Uyghur and/or Chinese, you are essentially blind and deaf to the state's everyday violence. Let's begin in Kashgar

Altay to Yughur

The second #Uyghur #magazine that I have to share is Ädäbiyat (#Literature), a literary periodical published in #Ürümchi in 1947. As you can see, it carried pieces on creative production

BREAKING: There are several 100s resid. apartments near Xinjiang Univ in Urumchi. Authorities took ~165 young persons to “quarantine”, 1 from each family, ages ~10 & up. Few Kazakhs, few

For research purposes, here is an (incomplete) list of foreign vloggers who have made videos about the Xinjiang/Cotton debate. Most of them are on Chinese platform bilibili, many have YouTube

THREAD: Following our cover this week on Uyghurs, I wanted to highlight scholars, journalists, activists and exiles who have helped expose and explain what is happening in Xinjiang, from the