Annotated sources
Source no. 1: Global Times photo of two Uyghur women. This is the photo that I use as a backdrop for my blog. Source no. 2: Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker. “Surviving the Crackdown in Xinjiang.” This is a long-form essay about Anar Sabit, a Uyghur woman who was detained in a concentration camp in Xinjiang. It provides background on some of the policies in China which the government uses to justify its detainment of Uyghurs. Source no. 3: Filip Noubel, Global Voices. “Updating Uyghur: The power of online discussions for language preservation.” This is a really fascinating, really useful article about WeChat – the most popular social networking app in China where filters and restrictive government policy limit what its citizens can talk about online – and its relationship to Uyghur, where communities of native speakers congregate to discuss the language, silly mis-translations, and other topics deemed appropriate. Over the past few years, the Uyghur diaspora community outside...