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Tidbits on and about China and Chinese civilization more generally. Compare japanoutreach; Korea outreach
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The Library of Congress has completed a yearslong effort to digitize the Yongle Encyclopedia (Yongle dadian 永樂大典), the largest reference work created in pre-modern China, and possibly the world. Digital publication of the 41 volumes held in the Library's collections provides open access to one of the most extensive attempts in world history to capture the entirety of human knowledge in book form.
Just published (Feb 2022, with D. Mahmut): 'Corrective "re-education" as (cultural) genocide: a content analysis of the Uyghur primary school textbook Til-Ädäbiyat. In The Xinjiang Emergency. Manchester University Press.
Book chapter (Nov 2021): '"Turning Sheep into Tigers": State Securitization of Islam, Societal Insecurity and Conflict in Xinjiang, China.' In The Politics of Muslim Identities in Asia. Edinburgh University Press.
Reflection in Journal of Genocide Research (2020): 'Why Scholars and Activists Increasingly Fear a Uyghur Genocide in Xinjiang'.
Article in Space & Society (2020, with O.Klimes): 'China's Neo-Totalitarian Turn and Genocide in Xinjiang'.
Guest-edited Special Issue of Central Asian Survey (2019): 'Securitization, Insecurity and Conflict in Contemporary Xinjiang'.
Brill monograph (2013): The Art of Symbolic Resistance: Uyghur Identities and Uyghur-Han Relations in Contemporary Xinjiang.
Dossier: Uyghur Women in China's Genocide
Rukiye Turdush, Uyghur Research Institute - Follow
Magnus Fiskesjö, Cornell University - Follow
In genocide, both women and men suffer. However, their suffering has always been different; with men mostly subjected to torture and killings, and women mostly subjected to torture and mutilation. These differences stem primarily from the perpetrators' ideology and intention to exterminate the targeted people. Many patriarchal societies link men with blood lineage and the group's continuation, while women embody the group's reproductivity and dignity. In the ongoing genocide against the Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in East Turkistan, the ideology of Chinese colonialism is a root cause. It motivates the targeting of women as the means through which to destroy the reproductivity and the dignity of the people as a whole. It is a common misunderstanding to associate genocide with only mass killings, and the current lack of evidence for massacres has led some to prematurely conclude there is no genocide. But this overlooks the targeting of women, which is also a prominent part of the definition of genocide laid out in the Genocide Convention. State policy in China intentionally targets Uyghur and other Turkic women in multiple ways. This dossier is focused on analyzing China's targeted policies against Uyghur women and their "punishment," as rooted in part in ancient Chinese legalist philosophy. In doing so, this dossier contributes toward further exposing Chinese colonialism and the genocidal intent now in evidence.
Turdush, Rukiye and Fiskesjö, Magnus (2021) "Dossier: Uyghur Women in China's Genocide," Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal: Vol. 15: Iss. 1: 22–43.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.15.1.1834
Available at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol15/iss1/6radio segment that offers introduction to some of the generational differences,
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