minorities

What Is a Uyghur?

In an adaptation from his book The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History at The Los Angeles Review of...

Hexie Farm (蟹农场): Behind the Wall

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...

China’s Ethnic Song and Dance

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...

The Charms of Qing TV

The Economist's Analects blog has a post about the recent television dramas about the Qing Dynasty, such as Palace, and suggests that the popular image of the Manchus is far from accurate:Actors in Chinese film and...

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