CAP – Page 17 – Central Asia Program

By Anna Gussarova CAP Fellows Paper 201 (CAAF Fellows Papers), January 2018 Anna Gussarova is director and co-founder of the Central Asia Institute for Strategic Studies (www.caiss.expert). She previously served…

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Overcoming a Taboo: Normalizing Sexuality Education in Kazakhstan

29 January, 2018

By Karlygash Kabatova CAP Fellows Paper 200 (CAAF Fellows Papers), January 2018 Karlygash Kabatova is a researcher currently interested in how society development and sexuality education interrelate. Together with a…

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“Bourgeois” Islam, Prosperity Theology and Ethics in Muslim Eurasia

25 January, 2018

By CAP CAP Paper 198, January 2018 On January 29, 2018, GW’s Central Asia Program organized a workshop on “‘Bourgeois’ Islam, Prosperity Theology and Ethics in Muslim Eurasia” in the…

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Life Inside China’s Total Surveillance State (video)

24 January, 2018

Source: Wall Street Journal China has turned the northwestern region of Xinjiang into a vast experiment in domestic surveillance. WSJ investigated what life is like in a place where one’s…

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Eastern Turkistan Folklore: Uyghur Music and Dance Archive Recordings (video)

24 January, 2018

A collection of music and dance performances from East Turkistan / Xinjiang, China recorded in the 1980s.

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China Uses Facial Recognition to Fence in Villagers in Far West

22 January, 2018

Source: Bloomberg News Article: China’s state surveillance apparatus is trying out a new tool in one of its favorite test beds, the restive region of Xinjiang. The Muslim-dominated villages on…

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A Visa-Free Zone Welcomes Your Wallet. But Maybe Not Your Beard

22 January, 2018

Author: Andrew Higgins Source: New York Times HORGOS, China — Except for men with long beards and women wearing veils or jewelry with a crescent moon motif, just about…

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The 1957-58 Xinjiang Committee Plenum and the Attack on “Local Nationalism”

22 January, 2018

Author: David Brophy Source: Wilson Center Photo credit: Wilson Center Soviet archives reveal a turning point in the Chinese Communist Party’s relationship with Uyghur and Kazakh elites in Xinjiang Beginning…

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Chairs Raise Alarm About Deteriorating Human Rights Situation in Xinjiang

22 January, 2018

Author: Congressional-Executive Commission on China Source: CECC (Washington D.C.)—The Commission’s 2017 Annual Report highlighted intensified restrictions on religious freedom and oppressive security controls, particularly in ethnic minority regions, including the Xinjiang Uyghur…

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The Plot Behind China’s Suppression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang

8 January, 2018

Author: Annie Wu Source: Epoch Times Article: UK Uighur Association representative and former medical surgeon Enver Tohti recently sat down with The Epoch Times to break down misconceptions about protests…

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Frontier Politics and the Sino-Soviet Relations: A Study of Northwestern Xinjiang, 1949-1963

8 January, 2018

Author: Sheng Mao, University of Pennsylvania Source: UPenn Scholarly Commons Abstract: This is an ethnopolitical and diplomatic study of the Three Districts, or the former East Turkestan Republic, in…

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From Kashgar to Syria

8 January, 2018

Author: Claude Arpi Source: The Statesman In 1949, a few months after the new People’s Republic of China was proclaimed, Mao moved to ‘liberate’ large areas in the periphery of…

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Ancient China: Satellite and Drone Imagery of Prehistoric Silk Road Corridor Reveals Long-lost Irrigation Network

8 January, 2018

Author: Kastalia Medrano Source: Newsweek Archaeologists have discovered an ancient irrigation system in northwestern China that explains how the region’s herding communities were able grow crops in one of the…

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China’s Crackdown on Uighurs Spreads to Even Mild Critics

8 January, 2018

Author: Gerry Shih, Associated Press Source: Washington Post BEIJING — Zhang Haitao was a rare voice in China, a member of the ethnic Han majority who for years had criticized…

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AP Exclusive: China’s Uyghurs Work to Fend Pull of Jihad

8 January, 2018

Author: Gerry Shih, Associated Press Source: ABC News Iminjin Qari felt upbeat as he drove to Istanbul’s airport with three empty buses and a simple task: pick up about…

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‘They Don’t Know Us’: At Sama Uyghur Cuisine, Three Immigrants Recreate Their Native Food

8 January, 2018

Author: Mellissa Hung Source: San Francisco Chronicle When Pattar Dilmurat left Dubai, where he lived for five years selling fragrances and makeup, he told his wife he would be…

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Stepped-up Surveillance of Uighurs Sends ‘Relatives’ into Homes

8 January, 2018

Author: Joyce Huang Source: VOA Authorities in Xinjiang launched what they call a new “relatives’ week” program this month, which requires local civil servants to spend a week with…

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The Uyghur Terrorism: Phenomenon and Genesis

8 January, 2018

Author: Maria A. Soloshcheva Source: Iran and the Caucasus Abstract: The aim of this paper is 1) to analyse the historical and political roots of the current situation in…

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Native Rhythms in the City: Embodied Refusal Among Uyghur Male Migrants in Urumchi

26 December, 2017

Author: Darren Byler, University of Washington Source: Central Asian Survey Abstract: Over the past two decades, state-directed Han settlement and capitalist development in the Uyghur homeland in Chinese Central…

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The Influence of External Factors on the Development of Separatism in Xinjiang of PRC

26 December, 2017

Author: A.S. Mavlonova, National Research University “Higher School of Economics” Source: RUDN University International Relations Journal Abstract: The article considers the important geostrategic position of Xinjiang, located at the intersection…

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For Uighur Militants in Syria, the Real Enemy Is China

26 December, 2017

Author: Associated Press Source: The National It was mid-afternoon when the Chinese police officers barged into Ali’s house set against cotton fields outside the ancient Silk Road trading post…

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Americans Should Be Concerned About China’s Latest Privacy Violation

26 December, 2017

Author: Massoud Hayoun Source: Pacific Standard Local governments in the far-Western Chinese region of Xinjiang began collecting biometric data from residents in February, Human Rights Watch reported last week. The HRW…

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Resistance to State-Orchestrated Modernization in Xinjiang: The Genesis of Unrest in the Multiethnic Frontier

25 December, 2017

Author: Hasan H. Karrar, Lahore University of Management Sciences Source: Sage Journals This article seeks to explain periodic unrest in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the years immediately…