4th year Asian Studies major at UC Berkeley with a focus on China and Political Science. Particularly interested in gender construction, political dissent, nationalism, and socioeconomic polarization in the PRC. Likes to run, fence, and otherwise work out. Loves to eat.
James Millward at The China Beat reflects on the controversy of the 17 Guantanamo Bay Uighurs: how their current predicament stems directly from the U.S. ‘war on terror’ after the attacks of September 11, 2001 and...
Read MoreThe ordinary netizens who sit on the investigative committee reviewing Li Qiaoming’s ‘eluding the cat’ death in detention have come under intense online scrutiny in the past week. Now Internet public opinion...
Read MoreSeveral prominent netizens selected by the Yunnan Provincial Publicity Department to the committee investigating Li Qiaoming’s death in detention – what has become known online as the ‘eluding the cat’...
Read More17 Uighur Chinese citizens remain imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay due to a lack of nations willing to offer amnesty, U.S. unwillingness to repatriate them to China, and the recent reversal of a court order that the prisoners be...
Read MoreIn the latest of a series of moves to suppress Uighur expression of ethnic and religious identity, Chinese government officials in Xinjiang are pushing male state employees to shave their facial hair. From Radio Free Asia:...
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