The Culture Sector, Program Observation in Xinjiang, and Addressing Registration Difficulties in Jiangxi

Ministry of Public Security WeChat Posts—October 12, 2018

on October 31, 2018

Recently, the chairman of Barry & Martin’s Trust (United Kingdom) visited the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Sixth People’s Hospital to observe an ongoing cooperative program and to sign an additional cooperation agreement. The Xinjiang PSB Foreign NGO Management office also met with the Trust, affirming its active contributions to AIDS treatment and prevention in the region. The PSB also inquired about the Trust’s projects in Xinjiang and offered relevant guidance. The foreign NGO expressed gratitude for the PSB’s patient and painstaking guidance.

Obert Hodzi

on October 28, 2018

Obert Hodzi is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki and a Visiting Researcher at the African Studies Center at Boston University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Lingnan University in 2016. His research interests include the foreign policy of China, emerging powers, South-South power dynamics, and governance in Africa.

Previously, he has worked as a visiting scholar at the Renmin University of China and at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He was also a governance advisor in Zimbabwe.

Hodzi is the author of The End of China’s Non-Intervention Policy in Africa.

Judd C. Kinzley

on October 26, 2018

Judd C. Kinzley is an Associate Professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His book Natural Resources and the New Frontier: Constructing Modern China’s Borderlands (University of Chicago Press, 2018), focuses on the efforts by an assortment of state and non-state, Chinese and non-Chinese actors to find, exploit, process, and transport various natural resources in 20th century Xinjiang. Their collective efforts to stake claims to the region’s gold, petroleum, wool, animal pelts, and rare nonferrous minerals form the socio-economic and political foundations that continue to shape modern Xinjiang. The work, which is based on archival research conducted in Urumqi, Xinjiang; Beijing; Taipei; Moscow; and London, among other places, offers a new way of viewing not only Xinjiang, but other border regions in China and beyond. He is currently working on a new project that focuses on the Trans-Pacific material exchange of American industrial goods and Lend-Lease equipment for Chinese raw materials during the 1940s.

Reading Xi Jinping

on October 24, 2018

A sent-down state worker reads Xi Jinping’s report for the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party to her Uighur “relative.” The image was posted by the Xinjiang Communist Youth League on WeChat.

Table

on October 24, 2018

A Han sent-down worker eats with a Uighur family at a table he gave them as a gift. This image was posted on social media platform WeChat by the Xinjiang Communist Youth League.