tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66860319273847716422024-03-13T18:01:56.325+11:00China LetterNews, commentary and opinion on China, politics, culture and human rights particularly concerning the Uyghur people of Xinjiang and Chinese mining and migrant workers. Incorporating the Uyghur Letter.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686031927384771642.post-77079775489448619362012-05-01T09:22:00.000+10:002012-05-01T09:40:25.111+10:00Chinese Communist Party: Annus Horribilis
2011 was to be a great year for the Communist Party of China (CPC).
It was to be a year of celebration marking the 90th anniversary of the founding of the party in the back streets of Shanghai in 1921. China's newspapers were festooned with striking red and gold logos depicting the icon of the CPC. It was a year meant for the CPC to proclaim it's greatness and showcase how Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686031927384771642.post-65714679801257236002012-04-18T23:44:00.000+10:002012-04-18T23:54:58.809+10:00Bo Xilai: The CCP's Other Wenzhou
The
Bo Xilai affair has, without doubt, been China Watcher's flavour of
the month, worthy of the very best day time Soaps.
The
minutia of the story bears no repeating here for most will be more than familiar with this saga of a
flamboyant politician, his scheming wife and murder in the Orient.
But
for me the stand-out feature about this whole affair is not the facts
of what Bo Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686031927384771642.post-82491364499139066332012-04-13T20:54:00.000+10:002012-04-13T21:02:28.647+10:00The Uyghur Question: Violence not the way..
A Hard fought battle...
Twenty years ago the world knew little of
the Uyghurs of Xinjiang China.
Most international Human Rights
attention was focused on China's so called “One Child Policy” and the
“Tibetan Issue”, the latter as a result of an enigmatic spiritual
leader, a western romantic image of monks in saffron robes meditating in Shangri-la and a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686031927384771642.post-9655976566819308482012-03-19T07:38:00.000+11:002012-03-19T07:38:23.061+11:00China / How did a small Beijing-born girl become a star in the classical guitar world?China / How did a small Beijing-born girl become a star in the classical guitar world?
Source: radio86.com via Stephen on Pinterest
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686031927384771642.post-27817543536973598852012-03-11T01:30:00.000+11:002012-03-11T01:40:10.219+11:00Xinjiang: Korla Incident - An Analysis
Radio Free Asia reported that four Uyghurs have been killed in a pre-dawn raid on a farmhouse in Towurchi village near Korla City, Xinjiang, on Thursday March 8.
According to Radio Free Asia police became suspicious of the farmhouse after interrogating an Uyghur who reportedly had been injured in a home made bomb explosion. A subsequent raid by four police officers resulted in the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686031927384771642.post-22370468255509359342012-03-03T11:38:00.000+11:002012-03-03T11:48:17.541+11:00The “Uyghur Question”: A Racial Answer
Yet another violent incident has
occurred in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region as a result, reportedly, of a rampage by Uyghur youths. The incident, which
has left up to twenty people dead, occurred in Kargilik (Yencheng) a predominately Uyghur town 249 kms northwest of the southern city Kashgar.
Initial reports cite sources as
claiming that several Uyghur youths, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686031927384771642.post-41038648039124659602012-01-23T10:50:00.000+11:002012-01-23T11:26:04.048+11:00China: The Eye Of The Dragon
Today, January, 23 marks the beginning of the Chinese Year of the Dragon. Of all the year signs the Dragon is considered by the Chinese to be of great importance. To be born in the year of the Dragon is to be born to all that is good, powerful and prosperous. Dragons, therefore, are very important symbols in Chinese culture. In ancient China they came to be seen as a symbol of power, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686031927384771642.post-17974310903132589022012-01-07T08:25:00.000+11:002012-01-07T10:30:07.258+11:00Comment: 2011: The Uyghur Human Rights Year in Review
Henryk Szadziewski in his Huffington Post article looks back at 2011 and examines some of the incidents that made the year such an "annus horribilis" for the Uyghur ethnic minority of China.
Not since the riots in Urumqi in 2009 have the Uyghur people been subject to such a bloody year.
In terms of the number of separate incidents that resulted in deaths and injuries as a result of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686031927384771642.post-31407393818987951802011-12-31T12:29:00.000+11:002011-12-31T13:33:06.519+11:00Death on the Silk Road: Uyghurs slaughtered
Pishan Uyghur Pomegranate sellers
Further to my post December 29, some further and shocking information has come to light regarding an incident where at least eight persons, seven Uyghurs and a senior police officer were killed in Xinjiang late on the night of December 28, 2011, in Hotan Prefecture's Pishan ( Uyghur- Guma) county.
Pishan County and the main town Pishan lies on theAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686031927384771642.post-43414906067633398272011-12-30T00:14:00.001+11:002011-12-30T01:47:25.041+11:00Pishan Incident: Hotan Re-visited?
It has been reported that as a result of a "kidnapping" by an Uyghur "terror gang" Chinese police in Pishan, Xinjiang have been involved in a rescue operation that resulted in the death of seven Uyghurs, one policeman and injuries to four others.
The incident in Pishan, which is a rural cotton farming town in the Hotan Prefecture and near the major city of Hotan, occurred on Wednesday nightAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686031927384771642.post-62891637366792792652011-12-09T23:29:00.001+11:002011-12-11T20:28:06.624+11:00China Organ Harvesting: Some Perspective
A recent article “The Xinjiang Procedure” revisits a perennial topic of organ harvesting from executed prisoners in China.
In this lengthy look at organ harvesting the author Ethan Gutmann in The Weekly Standard focuses on organs being harvested from executed prisoners in China particularly Uyghur prisoners in Xinjiang.
It undoubtedly is Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686031927384771642.post-2646699816953937722011-11-24T11:04:00.000+11:002011-11-25T10:31:22.794+11:00"Good Cop, Bad Cop": China's Global Times
The Global Times newspaper of China has been much in the news of late being heavily criticised for it's bellicose, belligerent and highly nationalistic editorials.
As a subsidiary of the People's Daily, the official news organ of the Chinese Communist Party, the Global Times has taken over, what Asia Sentinel has described, the "Bad Cop" role from the People's Daily and is Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686031927384771642.post-72326409995081290992011-10-16T12:42:00.001+11:002011-10-16T13:59:05.840+11:00The Last Uyghur Town
As Xinjiang irreversibly changes one town ultimately will become the last 'Uyghur town'. Kashgar, without doubt, is the most well known 'Uyghur town' in Xinjiang. By Uyghur town I refer to towns/cities that have a majority Uyghur population. Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, for example, surrendered this classification over a hundred years ago as has many other towns throughout Xinjiang. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686031927384771642.post-73213122926218448652011-10-09T13:55:00.000+11:002011-10-09T13:55:59.937+11:00Xinjiang violence reflects broader global context
Global Times, a Chinese state run newspaper, has published an interview with Dr Elizabeth Van Wie Davis Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686031927384771642.post-56933361679717363672011-10-09T00:39:00.000+11:002011-10-16T01:07:05.320+11:00Book Review: Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland
Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland /
edited by S. Frederick Starr. New York: M.E Sharpe Inc, 2004. ISBN
0-7656-1318-2. P.484. US$23.00 Amazon.
Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland when it was published in 2004, brought
together some of the leading names in the fields of history, culture,
economics, politics and anthropology to provide as comprehensive an
insight into Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686031927384771642.post-72968056098020814432011-10-02T17:25:00.000+11:002011-10-02T22:30:06.294+11:00China And Me: On Her 62nd birthday
China and me: The beginning
The People's Republic of China was "born" October 1, 1949 and I was born July 1957.
I have been interested in China for some 15 years, coming to her by sheer destiny through a person that I met on the Internet.
She was a 16 year old girl from Urumqi, Xinjiang and how and why she contacted me through the old Yahoo chat rooms remains a mystery to me,Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686031927384771642.post-66191566689914615112011-09-22T00:05:00.000+10:002011-09-22T00:50:43.484+10:00"Catch-22 of Xinjiang as a gateway": I Don't Think So.
This linked to article from Asia Times Online attempts to look at the possible problems facing both China and the Uyghur people as the former moves forward in it's aim to make Kashgar a Special Economic Zone and Xinjiang a revitalised gateway, a new "Silk Road", to Central Asia and other adjoining regions.
The author focuses rightly on the possible effects of the Chinese Government's Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686031927384771642.post-48898164647039140392011-09-18T02:38:00.000+10:002011-09-18T02:38:16.996+10:00Death Sentences in Xinjiang: A Perspective
The Chinese Government has reported that the courts have handed down death sentences to four men found guilty of murder, arson and running terrorist organisations following the deadly incidents in Hotan and Kashgar in July which resulted in the deaths of thirty two people of which thirteen were Uyghurs, the alleged perpetrators. Uyghurs Abdugheni Yusup, Ablikim Hasan, Muhtar Hasan, and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686031927384771642.post-63882403579504874632011-09-06T10:25:00.000+10:002011-09-08T22:06:58.766+10:00China's Aircraft Carrier and Occam's Razor
If you hear hooves....
A very simplistic definition of Occam's Razor is: "If you hear hooves, think horses, not zebras".
In
other words if it looks like "A", smells like "A", tastes like "A", then your first assumption should be that it is "A".
It
is commonly taught to young medical students who have the habit, apparently, of
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686031927384771642.post-69057087163583655092011-08-30T23:14:00.000+10:002011-08-30T23:14:10.768+10:00The Fate of Old Beijing: A Disappearing World
by Jonah Kessel
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686031927384771642.post-78006483897663042992011-08-24T07:32:00.000+10:002011-08-24T07:32:49.084+10:00China's Young Migrant Workers: Hopes and Dreams
No matter what era we live in. No matter what our age, sex, race, creed or nationality; there is one thing we have in common and that is the hopes, dreams and aspirations of young people.
This is a short video on the hopes and dreams of China's young migrant workers.
Dreamwork China from Cineresie on Vimeo.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686031927384771642.post-15631397976668599992011-08-23T10:34:00.000+10:002011-08-23T10:34:09.939+10:00Uyghur Pop Music
I found this video on the blog autonomous region and thank them for the following quote:
A young Uyghur pop singer His name is Shireli Eltiken. Much of his music is characterized by the blending of popular styles and the classical muqam, of which he’s trained as a professional vocalist. This song is called “Chahargah Meshrep”; it’s included on his third personal Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686031927384771642.post-91309114887272207852011-08-21T03:53:00.000+10:002011-08-21T03:53:05.319+10:00The Uyghur Question: Rebiya, do you have an answer?
"The
Chinese people have the great fortune of possessing a long and
illustrious civilization. Their achievements in science and the arts
are a legacy that Chinese people should be rightfully proud of;
however, in contemporary China the Han Chinese people share some of
the same misfortunes as the Uyghur people of East Turkestan."
So starts Rebiya Kadeer in her
recent
piece in the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686031927384771642.post-13431731273158564432011-08-17T12:29:00.005+10:002011-08-18T23:17:07.371+10:00Suffer the little Children: China's Street kids.
China
is a land of contradictions: It has the very, very rich and it has
the very, very poor. It has incredible state of the art industries
juxtaposed with “cottage industries” straight out of the
Industrial revolutionAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686031927384771642.post-15680205502586103682011-08-10T23:13:00.002+10:002011-08-10T23:26:00.090+10:00China: The Mah-jong Theory
Last century there existed a heavily
subscribed to idea called the “Domino
Theory” Quite simply it held that, like a set of dominoes set on their ends
and in close proximity to each other, if one fell it would set off a
chain reaction known as the “domino effect” bringing all others
down with it.
The theory was first ennunciated, referring to communism in Indo-China, by then U.S. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096283461064342616noreply@blogger.com