Time Out Shanghai
September 8, 2015 § Leave a comment
There’s a Q and A about China’s Forgotten People in the new issue of Time Out Shanghai.
Reviews for China’s Forgotten People
July 22, 2015 § Leave a comment
Some thoughtful reviews from Kerry Brown at Open Democracy, Tom Miller at The Spectator, and Jonathan Mirsky at Literary Review (click here for pdfs LR CFP 1 LR CFP 2). Thanks to these experienced China commentators for taking the time to write such considered pieces.
There’s also a good overview of some of the book’s issues by Joshua Bird at Asian Review of Books and by Paul French at China Rhyming.
Thanks also to Ian Johnson of the New York Times for his incisive Q and A on the book.
‘181 Terrorist groups’
June 3, 2015 § Leave a comment
Anti-terror drill in Xinjiang
My latest piece on the LRB Blog about China’s dubious claims about the extent and nature of ‘terrorism’ in Xinjiang.
Islamic State piece on Vice News
September 25, 2014 § Leave a comment
Iraqi sources claim to have caught a Chinese citizen fighting for the Islamic State militant group.
My piece on China’s recent claims that fighters from Xinjiang are training with IS is up at Vice News.
What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘the Uyghurs’
June 30, 2014 § Leave a comment
Back street in Urumqi, September 2013
Firstly, apologies to Raymond Carver for being yet another desecrator of his great title.
Secondly- this is the title of my latest piece on Xinjiang, which is in the Summer issue of Dissent mag.
Talk on Xinjiang in Chinese and Western Media
March 7, 2014 § 3 Comments
I’ll be talking at Westminster University, London, on March 19th about how Western and Chinese media tends to represent the Xinjiang issue in different yet equally distorting ways – details here.
After Kunming
March 5, 2014 § Leave a comment
I attempt to make sense of the horrible killings in Kunming on the LRB Blog
