Tag: Ethnic tensions

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Translation: Within Pain There is Also Hope

The following essay was posted on Weibo by a student from Inner Mongolia, under user name “South Moon” (南的月亮), about her experiences living with and befriending her Uyghur and Tibetan classmates. The Weibo post has since been deleted: I don’t know what tomorrow will bring, so I’d like to share a little of my personal story. Before university I studied for a year at an ethnic minority preparatory school, where my classmates consisted of a dozen or so