As the Chinese Communist Party has intensified its policy of assimilation for cultural and ethnic minority groups in recent decades, language has been a key part of that effort. Standard Tibetan is recognized as the official...
The Chinese public has been transfixed and outraged by news of a decade-long scheme involving the theft and illegal sale of thousands of corpses for use as bone-graft raw material in dental procedures. A document leaked last...
The Douban comment was not inflammatory. In fact, it didn’t even betray an overt opinion. But for censors, it was too much. “A note for posterity: this will be Inner Mongolia’s last Mongolian-language gaokao,” it read. Censors...
Five years after his arrest on charges of inciting separatism, Tashi Wangchuk, an advocate for Tibetan-language education, has been released from prison. He attempted to use legal avenues to reinstitute Tibetan-language...
The following essay was posted on Weibo by a student from Inner Mongolia, under user name...
Economic growth and poverty reduction are two of the Chinese Communist Party’s core goals...
The New York Times’ Edward Wong reports on the erosion of Tibetan language by official...
Chinese state media announced that 10 Turkish nationals have been taken into custody for allegedly...
In an adaptation from his book The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History at The Los Angeles Review of...
Linguist Abduweli Ayup returned to Xinjiang after studying in the U.S. with the goal of opening...
Chris Buckley reports for The New York Times on the differing accounts of the recent violence in...
Former Fulbright scholar Colette Fu has been constructing pop-up books for the past decade. She...
For BBC, Clarissa Sebag Montefiore writes about how the Chinese government’s depictions of...
PRI’s The World reports on the growth of Mandarin as a common language in China, as...
At ChinaFile, James Palmer mounts a wide-ranging exploration of tensions between China’s Han...
Photographer Laurent Zyblerman and writer Eric Meyer were two of the first Western journalists...
For his latest contribution to the Hexie Farm CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab comments on Beijing’s policies toward ethnic minorities. President Xi Jinping, depicted as a dishonest Pinocchio, is declaring the official...
In the New York Times, Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore writes about the role of ethnic minorities in China, and the conflicts between their official image and the realities of life for non-Han Chinese citizens: Chinese officials like...
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