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happy to see that the review essay written by @maqianyu.bsky.social and myself for LARB has been published. It discusses two important recent books about Chinese Muslims (Hui) by @rianthum.bsky.social and Hale Eroglu.Thanks go out to @bspivey.bsky.social @jwassers.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yckc5bbd

The Fate of China’s Muslims | Los Angeles Review of Books

Two recent books track the history of China’s Muslim minority during a period of suspicion and suppression.

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PODCAST "A Hundred Years of CCP Borderlands Policies": How the notions of borderlands, nation-building, and ethnic policies have been intertwined throughout 100 years of #CCP existence with @rollandnadege.bsky.social, @bennoweiner.bsky.social, Robert Barnett, @jleibold.bsky.social: bit.ly/3QzsUdL

A very interesting piece by @emilyzfeng.bsky.social on how Uyghurs became the biggest group of foreign fighters in Syria fighting against the Assad regime. For now, at least, they are making a new home in the country.

The foreign fighters who helped topple Assad — and why China worries about them

Thousands of Uyghurs became key fighters against Syria's Assad regime. For the first time, they agreed to be interviewed. NPR spent weeks with some of them to understand why they fled China for Syria.

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I have a new essay out in China Leadership Monitor www.prcleader.org/post/the-pat...

“The Patient Labor of Assimilation”: China’s Strategies to Create a New “New Territory” | China Leadership Monitor

With the so-called re-education camps closed, not only has media attention on Xinjiang waned but a troubling misconception seems to have taken hold: state violence targeting Uyghurs is over. In realit...

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Episode 7 | Being Muslim in China | Made in China Journal

This month, China’s National People’s Congress held its annual meeting and passed a new law on ‘promoting ethnic unity and progress’. The legislation further codifies the suppression of non-Han langua...

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Thrilled that my essay, "Fear and Writing in Xinjiang," was chosen by the editors of the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social to be included in their 15th Anniversary Anthology! Thanks to @jwassers.bsky.social and @bspivey.bsky.social for commissioning the piece and for their editorial work!

LARB Quarterly #48: 15th Anniversary Issue | Los Angeles Review of Books

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Happy to be quoted by Joe Leahy of @financialtimes.com for this article about the new law in China that would further erode the language (and other) rights of non-Han people. Probably paywalled but happy to share. www.ft.com/content/94be...

China prepares landmark law curtailing minority language rights

Bill to ‘promote ethnic unity’ by mandating Mandarin use would hasten decline of other cultures, critics say

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@bennoweiner.bsky.social in @financialtimes.com on new law that ends minority language education in core subjects in #innermongolia, #tibet, #xinjiang: It “overturns the multicultural promises upon which China was founded.”

China prepares landmark law curtailing minority language rights

Bill to ‘promote ethnic unity’ by mandating Mandarin use would hasten decline of other cultures, critics say

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Important (but not surprising) research from a Bowdoin college that AI has different responses to questions on #HongKong, #Xinjiang, #Taiwan, and #Tibet based on whether you input 简体字 or 繁體字 petsymposium.org/popets/2025/...

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps

Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.

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Don't skip this Rhyming Chaos podcast, hosted by @goldkorn.bsky.social, in which journalist Soyonbo Borjgin discusses his life in Inner Mongolia, protests against CCP ethnic minority policies, and going through re-education.

The end of a Mongolian-language newspaper

From wolf hearts to Xi Jinping thought: Journalist Soyonbo Borjgin talks about growing up in Hohhot and his “re-education” after protests against the suppression of Mongolian language.

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Sheffield Hallam Apologizes to American Scholar Over Publication Ban Curtailment of Laura Murphy’s research into alleged forced labor practices in China raises further questions over foreign government interference... Read the latest from @timeshighered.bsky.social ➡️ https://bit.ly/43fUPCK

Drawing on one month of residence in a retirement community outside Beijing, Brian DeMare examines the Chinese silver-hair market, tracing everyday experiences of retirees and highlighting the interplay between personal memories of PRC history and the commodification of elder care in today's China.

A Grey Beard in the Silver-Hair Market: One Month in China’s Retirement City

Laoye left Louisiana like an outlaw cowboy, abandoning all his earthly possessions, and hitting the road. The flat-screen TVs, the piles of clothes, the closet full of USB cords? No longer needed. Jus...

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Looking forward to reading @rianthum.bsky.social ‘s important new book, Islamic China. Pre-order your copy today! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Opening next month at Vancouver's Museum of Anthropology and on view through our #AAS2026 dates, "Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images" will surely be a must-visit for conference attendees!

Entangled Territoriesདཀའ་རྙོག་ནང་གི་ཡུལ་སྡེ། - Museum of Anthropology at UBC

Closed Mondays October 15 – May 15

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New Issue of 20th Century China, includes two must-read articles on Inner Asia: Gyatso Marnyi on "The Creation of Qinghai Province on the Inner Asian Frontier of Republican China," and @bhales06.bsky.social on "The Cleansing of the Class Ranks Campaign in Altay, 1968–1972." muse.jhu.edu/issue/55629

Excited to be featured alongside two scholars I truly admire, @jleibold.bsky.social and @robbiebarnett.bsky.social, in conversation with @rollandnadege.bsky.social. "100 Years of CCP Borderland Policies." Please give it a listen (and maybe even assign to your undergrads?). tinyurl.com/yhktwu9h

1/3 I appear on Asia Insight (NBR) discussing “Documenting China’s Borderlands: A Hundred Years of CCP Borderlands Policies.” Benno Weiner & Robert Barnett join. Listen (34m): podcasts.nbr.org/e/documentin... @nbr.org @bennoweiner.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @latrobeuni.bsky.social

Very cool to see my review of The Red Wind Howls is today's Semafor Flagship recommendation! tinyurl.com/sdz7btvs Read it here in @chinabooksreview.com chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i... Then go read the book!

A big thank you to @bennoweiner.bsky.social for such an insightful talk and discussion! 👏 It was a joy having you with us.

Benno Weiner@bennoweiner.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I had a wonderful time at Palacký University Olomouc. Big thank you to my hosts and to all who attended the talk. Now off to Krakow! @remotexuar.bsky.social

Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of the banned Tibetan novel, now in English, "The Red Wind Howls": chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...

The Red Wind Howls, states @bennoweiner.bsky.social in this magnificent new review, "is a monumental literary achievement, an act of defiance that helps pierce a regime of forced forgetting." Tsering Döndrup's magnum opus is now available in English — read it! chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...

Ill Winds In Tibet | China Books Review

A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao's campaigns in the wake of the Amdo Rebellion of 1958.

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Please check out my review of Tsering Döndrup’s magnificent and important novel, *The Red Wind Howls* (tr. Chris Peacock) in @chinabooksreview.com (then read the book!) Thanks to editors @alexludoboyd.bsky.social and @alecash.net

China Books Review@chinabooksreview.com · 11mo ago

A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao’s campaigns in the wake of the 1958 Amdo Rebellion. Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of "The Red Wind Howls" by Tsering Döndrup: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...

A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao’s campaigns in the wake of the 1958 Amdo Rebellion. Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of "The Red Wind Howls" by Tsering Döndrup: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...

Please check out my review of Tsering Döndrup’s magnificent and important novel, *The Red Wind Howls* (tr. Chris Peacock) in @chinabooksreview.com (then read the book!) Thanks to editors @alexludoboyd.bsky.social and @alecash.net chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i... @columbiaup.bsky.social

Ill Winds In Tibet | China Books Review

A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao's campaigns in the wake of the Amdo Rebellion of 1958.

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I had a wonderful time at Palacký University Olomouc. Big thank you to my hosts and to all who attended the talk. Now off to Krakow! @remotexuar.bsky.social

Remote Xuar@remotexuar.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Making Minorities in Late Republican and Early #Maoist #China: A View from the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands 👇 We are pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social at Palacký University Olomouc next week! www.remote-xuar.com/events/makin...

Making Minorities in Late Republican and Early #Maoist #China: A View from the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands 👇 We are pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social at Palacký University Olomouc next week! www.remote-xuar.com/events/makin...

Happy to see the advanced publication of my review of Yudru Tsomo's history of 20th C Kham, *Chieftains, Lamas, and Warriors* is now available from The Journal of Asian Studies. tinyurl.com/2wckc72w

Chieftains, Lamas, and Warriors: A History of Kham, 1905–1961

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CFP: Joint Conference of the Historical Society for 20th Century China and the Institute for Modern History, Academia Scinica Deadline: October 15 Please note that papers/panels can engage any aspect of China and/or Taiwan's long 20th Crntury All the info: hstcconline.org/announcements/

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Call for Papers International Conference Jointly Organized by the Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China and the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica Taiwan Reframing Modern Histori…

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