NYT authors of "Long Road from Xinjiang" (12/2024)

After two years of investigating Uyghurs fleeing China for exhile abroad the piece was published in the New York Time Magazine. In this podcast the host talks with the two authors, https://youtu.be/ec7KeBkDLZ8

recording of "Fighting Uyghur Forced Labor: Government, Researchers, Industry, and Civil Society"

Laura Murphy's powerful lecture on Uyghur forced labor, at Cornell U on Sep 30, 2024; recording now available on Global Cornell's YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8KV2b6Bk_0

Fighting Uyghur Forced Labor: Government, Researchers, Industry, and Civil Society. 

Laura T. Murphy, Policy Advisor, Department of Homeland Security, US; and Professor of Human Rights, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Laura Murphy discussed the current situation for Uyghurs in forced labor in China, as well as the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, the landmark forced labor legislation that prohibits goods made in the Uyghur Region of China from import into the United States -- including the effects of the law after two years of implementation.

The event was hosted by the East Asia Program at Cornell University, and co-sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies, Contemporary Muslim Societies Program, Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies Program, the Department of Global Labor and Work (ILR), and the Global Labor Institute (ILR), the Department of Government, as well as the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.

genocide lives on in west China

[from google group on Xinjiang killing of culture and people, day by day: October 2024]

...https://thebulletin.org/2024/10/how-modern-slavery-in-china-and-elsewhere-undermines-the-fight-against-existential-threats/

Separately, f y i, I wrote a piece on the recent online chat confessions from Chinese soldiers that took part in massacres of Uyghur civilians. It's in Swedish only: https://kinamedia.se/2024/10/09/soldaters-dodande-av-civila-i-xinjiang-lacker-ut-pa-kinas-sociala-medier/ 

I have not seen many other media take this up. Meanwhile, the New York Times [NYT] just had a big piece on how many Chinese people are now upset about how a Japanese boy was recently murdered outside his school in Guangzhou -- but even the NYT doesn't mention how the Uyghur genocide is proceeding while very few Chinese protest it.

Taking Uyghur property in west China

...article about China's expropriation and dispossession of Uyghur land, wealth, and people, as part of their "broader plan to undermine Uyghur existence, erode their economic base, and reshape the region for Han Chinese settler domination." 

https://bitterwinter.org/from-orchards-to-auctions-the-chinese-robbery-of-uyghur-wealth-part-i/

From Orchards to Auctions: The Chinese Robbery of Uyghur Wealth. Part I. How confiscation of Uyghur wealth by China is pushing Uyghurs to poverty.

Abdulhakim Idris. Bitter Winter, 10/23/2024.

film on genocide in west China, "All Static and Noise"

...Amnesty UK screenings of 'All Static and Noise'. We will have the film's producer Janice Englehart with us alongside (visas willing) Abduweli Ayup for a Q&A.

All Static & Noise is a groundbreaking documentary about atrocities committed against the Uyghur and Kazakh peoples in China. Weaving together photography, animation, dance, poetry, an original music score and personal testimony, All Static & Noise stimulates all senses and reminds us that in the darkest of times, we are strongest together.

SUNDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER 2024: 3:00PM-7:00PM

London Screening and panel event: Amnesty International, 25 New Inn Yard, London, EC2A 3EA

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/amnestyinternational/1383689

student viewpont on genocide in China

crossposting: Powerful speech by Uyghur student Z. Mamat @Cornell TEDxCornell, on China's ongoing genocide against her people -- new, July 29, 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqPxlnuOVRU

Killing Uyghurs and more ethnic nationalities in XUAR

Two publications in July 2024:

Mass Detention and Forced Assimilation of Uyghur Children in China.

By Magnus Fiskesjö and Rukiye Turdush.

Just released at the CETNI homepage, July 19, 2024: https://cetni.org/?p=7053 

and (open access)

 

"Ancient DNA and the Politics of Ethnicity in Neo-Nationalist China." In Critical Perspectives on Ancient DNA, eds. Daniel Strand & Anna Källén, & Charlotte Mulcore. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, July 2024, 145-166. Open access = chapter 7, https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/5800/Critical-Perspectives-on-Ancient-DNA 

Discussing PRC international crimes, July 8 to 12, 2024 at The Hague

Forthcoming meeting of minds in the Netherlands (via Twitter).

Why Kazakh officials are not publicly concerned with concentration camps of west China

New research published by Gaziza Shakhanova (Jan Masaryk Center for International Studies, Prague, Czech Republic) on why the Kazakhstani authorities ignored the numerous cases of detention of ethnic Kazakhs (including Kazakhstani citizens) in the Xinjiang re-education camps.  

Normative Power China: Why Kazakhstan is Ignoring the 'Re-education' Camps in Xinjiang

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09668136.2024.2336511

Xi's Han-centric nation-building (article)

New Textbook Reveals Xi Jinping's Doctrine of Han-centric Nation-Building

[May 24,2024] Publication: China Brief Volume: 24 Issue: 11

Executive Summary:

• Another cultural revolution is in full swing in the People's Republic of China (PRC). This is not the purported class revolution Mao advocated in the past, but rather a wave of Han cultural and racial nationalism.
• Xi's new approach to ethnic minority policy repudiates the Party's past promise to allow minority nationalities to exercise political and cultural autonomy, becoming "masters of their own house."
• Following more than ten years of incremental change, a new textbook from scholar-officials articulates the discourse, ideology, and policies associated with a new Han-centric narrative of China's past and future.
• In this conception, the sovereignties and homelands of the Tibetan, Uyghur, Mongol, and other indigenous minorities are erased and replaced with a seamless teleology of the Han colonial and racial becoming.

source, https://jamestown.org/program/new-textbook-reveals-xi-jinpings-doctrine-of-han-centric-nation-building/

crisis in XUAR continues, April 2024

Posting from the April 22 edition of the Google Group for the Xinjiang Crisis Response.

See also

"Innovating Repression: Policy Experimentation and the Evolution of Beijing's Re-Education Campaign in Xinjiang." Journal of Contemporary China (2024). https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2024.2302484.

"Measuring Non-Internment State-Imposed Forced Labor in Xinjiang and Central Asia: An Assessment of ILO Measurement Guidelines." Journal of Human Trafficking (2023). https://doi.org/10.1080/23322705.2023.2270366.

"The conceptual evolution of poverty alleviation through labour transfer in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region." Central Asian Survey (2023), https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2023.2227225.

"Innovating Penal Labour: Reeducation, Forced Labour, and Coercive Social Integration in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region." The China Journal. Vol. 90 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1086/725494 (SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4468500 )

"Coercive Labor in the Cotton Harvest in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Uzbekistan: A Comparative Analysis of State-Sponsored Forced Labor", Journal of Communist and Post-Communist Studies (2023), https://doi.org/10.1525/cpcs.2023.1822939 (SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4439694 )

event - Mongolness at the China-Tibet border

crossposting for the March 6, 2024 online event

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漢藏邊界蒙古性的重新發明

The Re-invention of Mongolness at the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands

日期Date：3/6/2024 時間Time：4:30-6:30pm 地點Venue：HC103, HSS Building 3, Guangfu Campus, NYCU 陽明交大光復校區 人社三院HC103教室 Zoom Link 會議：https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8653... 　　　Meeting ID 會議ID: 865 3118 7307 　　　Password 密碼: 437907 Speaker 講者：Ute Wallenböck博士（Assistant professor, Department of Chinese Studies, Masaryk University 捷克馬薩里克大學中國研究系助理教授） Host 主持人：Allen Chun 陳奕麟（Research Fellow, International Center for Cultural Studies, NYCU 國立陽明交通大學文化研究國際中心專任研究員）

Abstract 講座內容： Contemporary Henan Mongol autonomous county in Qinghai province is a small Mongol enclave located within the Tibetan cultural area of Amdo at the Sino-Tibetan borderlands. The arrival of the first Mongol settlers was in the 13th century, and with the establishment of the Khoshut authority over the Kokonor region under Gushri Khan, the Mongols gained power all over the region until 1723. By then, the Kokonor region came under the administration of the Qing court but under the power of local Tibetan rulers – except the area of the Hequ grassland which remained in the hands of the Mongols until the incorporation into the modern Chinese state in 1954. Due to the long-term mutual contacts between Tibetans and Mongols - a milieu was created in which unique local customs, language patterns, and social communities have emerged; the origins of which lie in encounters between Tibetan and Mongol culture that share certain features to form a new distinct culture. With the twentieth century, the underlying Mongolness was no longer assumed but began to be reaffirmed, so hyphenation began to emerge among groups in order to emphasize their Mongolness to others. Since the 1980s, the Henan Mongols are beneficiaries of the party state's civilising projects to retain their distinct identity by re-inventing their "Mongolness." Hence, the speaker is pursuing the question of the identity construction of the people of contemporary Henan County by looking at the multiple factors influencing their Mongolness. The findings are based on information she has collected during various long-term stays and research trips in Henan County since the late 1990s, which were supplemented by cross-checking printed sources, such as official records, local history materials and inner-party materials in Tibetan and Chinese. － 青海省的今日河南蒙古自治縣是位於青藏邊境地帶安多藏區內的一個小型蒙古飛地。第一批蒙古定居者於13世紀抵達，隨著固始汗在國土區域內控制高原地區的確立，蒙古人在該地區獲得了權力。直至1723年，高原地區受清朝政府管理，但由當地藏族統治者掌控，除了河曲草原地區一直保持在蒙古人手中，直到1954年並入現代中國國家。 長期以來藏族和蒙古族之間的交往創造了一個獨特的地方習俗、語言模式和社會群體的環境；其起源在於藏族和蒙古文化之間的相遇，共享某些特徵以形成新的獨特文化。隨著二十世紀到來，蒙古性的基礎性假設不再被認為理所當然，而是開始被重申。因此，為了向他人強調他們的蒙古性，連字符開始出現。自1980年代以來，河南蒙古人成為黨國文明項目的受益者，通過重新塑造他們的「蒙古性」來保持他們的獨特身份。因此，講者通過考察影響當代河南縣人民蒙古性的多種因素來追求對當地人民身份建構的問題。這些發現基於其自20世紀90年代末以來在河南縣的各種長期逗留和研究旅行中收集的信息，這些信息得到了印刷資料的交叉核實，如官方記錄、地方史料和藏漢黨內資料。 － 中文論文：https://drive.google.com/file/...

教育部高等教育深耕計畫---特色領域研究中心經費補助「衝突、正義、解殖：21世紀轉型中的亞洲」計畫 MOE-SPROUT 2.0, Conflict, Justice, Decolonization: Asia in Transition in the 21st Century 中心主任兼總計畫主持人劉紀蕙 ICCS Director and Principal Investigator: Joyce C.H. Liu 所屬子計畫Research Cluster｜ 子計畫一〔大中國體系中社會區域間的地緣政治和文化經濟〕 Sub-project 1: The Geopolitics and Cultural Economy of Societal Relations in a New GreaterChina 計畫主持人Principal Investigator｜ 陳奕麟Allen Chun

International Center for Cultural Studies

Transit Asia Research Network

R103, HA2, 1001 University Road, East District, Hsinchu, TAIWAN(R.O.C.)

Symposium recording, October 2023 - Concentration Camps in west China

Symposium hosted at Cornell in October 2023 about confiscated Uyghur children, see

https://www.cornell.edu/video/uyghur-children-symposium-2023