You can hear me talking to Rebecca Morofsky about Xinjiang (and China in general) on the Bloomsbury podcast (also on Spotify).
Category Archives: uighur
South China Morning Post Review
Thanks to Dan Eady for a long review (and a fair summary) of the new edition of China’s Forgotten People.
The first edition had a very different reception in SCMP – that reviewer lamented that ‘the book does little to bring to life the exotic and enchanting characteristics of Xinjiang’. Though that was by a different reviewer, the difference in tone seems indicative of a shift in the global perception of Xinjiang, and perhaps also of the very different situation in Hong Kong now compared to that in 2015.
Mosque destruction in Xinjiang
I wrote a piece for Apollo magazine about the recent destruction of shrines and mosques in Xinjiang.
Rear Vision
What’s often lacking in news stories about Xinjiang is context, especially of the region’s complex history, so I’m glad that the excellent ABC radio program Rear Vision focuses this week on the wider issues behind the concentration camps. The program features contributions from myself, the historian David Brophy, the Wall Street Journal correspondent Josh Chin, and Omer Kanat of the World Uyghur Congress. You can listen/download here.
Along the Ili River
I wrote about the arrest of the Kazakh activist Serikzhan Bilash and the links between the Uyghur and Kazakh communities in the region for the LRB Blog.
New edition of China’s Forgotten People
Bloomsbury will be publishing a new, updated edition of China’s Forgotten People in June. The update consists of a foreword and afterword that deals with the camps in Xinjiang – their origins and their rationale, what we know and what we don’t, and why this is such a terrible new chapter in the Chinese Communist Party’s attempt to control and shape the region and its peoples.
Piece for Zocalo Public Square
Internees at a ‘de-extremification’ event in Lop county
I wrote about the camps in Xinjiang for Zocalo Public Square.
