Room 602, 6th floor1957 E St NWWashington, DC 20052 Join the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and Central Asia Program for a talk with the editors of the new volume Uyghur… Continue reading New Books in Asian Studies: Uyghur Identity and Culture: A Global Diaspora in a Time of Crisis
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“Dear Nike, Just Don’t Do It!”: A Transnational Digital Connective Action on the Issue of Forced Uyghur Labor at Nike Sweatshops in China
By Tomiris Mashan Tomiris Mashan is a Master’s student in Comparative Social Research at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from… Continue reading “Dear Nike, Just Don’t Do It!”: A Transnational Digital Connective Action on the Issue of Forced Uyghur Labor at Nike Sweatshops in China
Trapped in the System: Experiences of Uyghur Detention in Xinjiang (Video)
Trapped in the System: Experiences of Uyghur Detention in Xinjiang February 3, 2021 Virtual discussion hosted by the Central Asia Program at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies… Continue reading Trapped in the System: Experiences of Uyghur Detention in Xinjiang (Video)
Trapped in the System: Experiences of Uyghur Detention in Xinjiang
More than a million — some say 3 million — Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have been arbitrarily detained and imprisoned in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region since 2016. China… Continue reading Trapped in the System: Experiences of Uyghur Detention in Xinjiang
MOSCOW – Third International Conference on Uyghur Studies: History, Culture, Society
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Uyghur Neighborhoods in Kazakhstan
with Sean Roberts, Associate Professor and Director, International Development Studies Program, GWU With the fall of the Soviet Union, the Uyghurs of Kazakhstan, like many others in the former USSR, began to resurrect… Continue reading Uyghur Neighborhoods in Kazakhstan
Eastern Turkistan Folklore: Uyghur Music and Dance Archive Recordings (video)
A collection of music and dance performances from East Turkistan / Xinjiang, China recorded in the 1980s.
Native Rhythms in the City: Embodied Refusal Among Uyghur Male Migrants in Urumchi
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… Continue reading Native Rhythms in the City: Embodied Refusal Among Uyghur Male Migrants in Urumchi
For Uighur Militants in Syria, the Real Enemy Is China
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… Continue reading For Uighur Militants in Syria, the Real Enemy Is China
The Destruction of Ethnic Identity: The Uyghur People Fight for Freedom in the Shadow of Chinese Oppression
Source: The Liberty Web Enver Can, Founder and President of The Ilham Tohti Initiative (ITI), shares with us his moving, and often heart-breaking, account of the Chinese attempt at… Continue reading The Destruction of Ethnic Identity: The Uyghur People Fight for Freedom in the Shadow of Chinese Oppression
China Gathering Blood, DNA and Iris Scans from Massive Database of Millions in Muslim Province
Author: Christina Zhao Source: Newsweek Chinese police have started gathering blood types, DNA samples, fingerprints and iris scans from millions of people in its Muslim-majority Xinjiang province to build a… Continue reading China Gathering Blood, DNA and Iris Scans from Massive Database of Millions in Muslim Province
Third International Conference on Uyghur Studies: History, Culture, and Society
Annual Uyghur Studies Conference Series Third International Conference on Uyghur Studies: History, Culture, and Society Zvenigorod, Russian Federation, 23-26 October 2016 Download PDF
Interview with Ablet Kamalov: On Studying the History and Contemporary Situation of the Uyghurs
By Ruslan Izimov
Second International Conference on Uyghur Studies: History, Culture, and Society
Annual Uyghur Studies Conference Series Second International Conference on Uyghur Studies: History, Culture, and Society Second International Conference on Uyghur StudiesHistory, Culture, and SocietyUniversité Libre de Bruxelles (ULB),CERI-Sciences Po, INALCOCentral… Continue reading Second International Conference on Uyghur Studies: History, Culture, and Society
Uyghur constructions of the XIV-XIX centuries: the formation of architectural style
Рисалат Каримова
The Irtysh and Ili Transboundary Rivers: The Kazakh-Chinese Path to Compromise
By Zhulduz Baizakova
The Influence of Intellectuals of the First Half of the 20th Century on Uyghur Politics
By Nabijan Tursun
Уйгуры Казахстана: история и современность
Светлана Кожирова
О деятельности Коминтерна по созданию революционной партии в Синьцзяне в 20-х 30-х гг. ХХ века
В.А. Бармин
Уйгурская диаспора Казахстана в период с распада СССР до создания ШОС
Хамит Храмаев
An Anthropological Look at the Komintern Archives
By Sabine Trebinjac
Xodayim buyrisa, guòle liǎng tiān dào nàlǐ shàngbān (“If God wills, after two days I’ll be working there”) Communication needs and ideology in Uyghur-Chinese code switching
By Giulia Cabras
Qing Dynasty and Uyghurs in the 19th Century (Controversy over the Question of Re-conquering Xinjiang)
By Dina V. Doubrovskaya