I hadn't heard from my brothers in at least eight years. Humanity will never forget this inhuman brutality. Çin Büyükelçiliği Ankara/中国驻土耳其使馆 Spokesperson发言人办公室

Just came across this 2005 picture of my friend Rahile Dawut, fr the cover of one of the Uyghur region's most widely read journals. This gifted anthropologist & lovely human being is now serving a life sentence in a Chinese prison for the crime of being born a Uyghur. #FreeRahile

only if there were more politics in CS classes. we might have a future where CS is less complicit in authoritarian surveillance, oppression, algorithms that amplify fascism, AI that reproduces racist & gendered biases, apartheid, genocide, etc etc

I think of Aynür every day. And I wonder, why do so many left and right wing narratives on #China's #genocide ignore the voices of ordinary affected #Uyghurs to tell stories about our own societies, aspirations, and interests? theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

the tragedy of a 33yo woman from a poor rural family in Ningxia who made it to a good university in Beijing, struggled to make a living and died in her rented flat in poverty struck a nerve in China. it went viral amidst increasing discontent with the reification of social

I'm not a "China guy" in the sense used here (in that I only write professionally about history), but I and many of my friends/colleagues have been massively disillusioned by what has happened in Hong Kong and especially Xinjiang over the past decade and I don't think we're wrong

An excellent special issue of Communist and Post-Communist Studies! Thanks to the guest editors, Matthew Blackburn and Ekaterina Klimenko, as well as the editorial team: Margarita Zavadskaya Tamara P Trost Alex Dukalskis David Sichinava Kyle Marquardt, and our Managing Editor Danielle Price.

After conversations with people in affected communities, the researcher statement on harassment in the human rights space was redrafted to reflect the importance of the issue and need for diaspora-led organisations. #china #uyghurs #eastturkistan #Harassment #MeToo #HumanRights

Also, if we're talking about the US government, why hasn't the China Fulbright program been resumed? Eliminating it was a Sinophobic Trump policy - the Biden administration needs to bring it back!

一张2009年新疆维稳的帖子，引发一众退伍老兵的回忆。 其中有人提到，“抗压能力差的回来接受长时间心理干预”“整村整村的干”“不分性别年龄”

internet users who say they are PLA/PAP veterans recount how they were deployed in Xinjiang in the aftermath of the 2009 riots. graphic content.

The proofs here! In this article, I propose the notion of “double decolonization” to capture how western & East Asian hegemonies co-produce the essentialization & orientalization of East Asia. As a result, Confucianism is often evoked out of context in global events such as COVID

In 2020, I started reporting the astonishing story of a Uyghur family separated in China. The story took 2 more years of reporting - in part because someone behind the scenes was trying to kill it. That story is the subject of an upcoming series. npr.org/2024/08/25/119…

The original story I worked on with Abduweli Ayup is here - and the team at Embedded and I are working to update it for a new series this December. npr.org/2022/02/03/107…

By Amy Hawkins: "Until recently, Zhang had a stable job working for a private company in the world’s second-biggest economy, earning an above average salary. But the political environment in #China left him feeling that he had no choice other than to leave." theguardian.com/world/2024/sep…

David Stroup says that the rapid expansion of China’s surveillance state during the pandemic combined with a gloomy economic outlook were some of the driving forces for this new wave of Chinese migrants.

Really fascinating on outflow of asylum seekers from China to Europe by Amy Hawkins in the The Guardian.

Overheard on campus just now: “Did you know that the library is good for, like, borrowing physical books? You just go and say ‘can I have this?’ And they let you borrow it. They don’t charge you or anything.”

Pleased to be joining my UoM colleagues Angie Wilson and Rob Ford for this upcoming panel on the U.S. election. Registration link is below if you’re interested in joining: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-american…

This will be a lot of fun!