Altaic Storytelling @bruce_humes
Chinese-to-English translator of "Confessions of a Jade Lord" and "Last Quarter of the Moon." Now co-translating novel set in Xinjiang, "Hollowed Out" (凿空). bruce-humes.com Joined February 2018-
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A disappearance in Xinjiang. An important piece about the CCP’s tightening control w/ the story of how a leading Uyghur scholar who tried to play by Beijing’s rules ends up in prison (perhaps for life).Here is a gift article for you. on.ft.com/3ULCjON
[𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖] Sabina Knight (@SabinaKnight1) reviews 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑒𝑖𝑗𝑖𝑛𝑔 (@commapress, 2023), edited by @verashi0730: "The volume showcases ten important writers and ten assured translators. READ: chajournal.blog/2024/04/10/boo…
This is what soft power looks like. #YerelSecim2024
This is what soft power looks like. #YerelSecim2024
Just out: Memoir of Fan Jinshi (樊锦诗), the female archaeologist who dedicated 50+ years to the study, restoration and preservation of cave-temples in Gansu. At various times, the region was controlled by Han, Tibetans, Uyghurs and Tanguts. bruce-humes.com/2024/02/28/new…
"Many consider Taipei People not only Pai Hsien-yung’s finest work but among the most exquisite stories of all of modern Chinese literature" @SabinaKnight1 @smithcollege recommends her favourite short stories from Taiwan: fivebooks.com/best-books/sho…
Retrospective censorship of Uyghur texts: From a memoir by Uyghur poet Tamir Hamut Izgil, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night, Bruce Humes posted on his Ethnic ChinaLit blog (12/30/23) this brief excerpt about how content, once commissioned and approved by… dlvr.it/T0msYV
回头看工程 --- Xinjiang's Ominous “Looking Back Project”: Uyghur poet's memoir recalls the Xinjiang administration's retroactive hunt for unPC content in textbooks once commissioned and published by the state. bruce-humes.com/2023/12/30/%e5…
Video/text Q&A with Giray Findan, who has rendered works by modern Chinese writers such as Mo Yan and Lao She as well as The Analects of Confucius and The Art of War into Turkish. shine.cn/news/in-focus/…
Of course, there are already those trying to discredit @YuanfenYang's visually stunning and alarming report on mosque Sinification (i.e., destruction of domes and minarets)...well, here are just a few examples from my archives of Chinese sources
Les écoles ne sont #PasUneCible. Les hôpitaux ne sont #PasUneCible. Les enfants ne sont #PasUneCible. Les civils ne sont #PasUneCible. Les humanitaires ne sont #PasUneCible. Ils doivent être protégés de tout, partout.
Newly published "Questioning Borders: Eco-Literatures of China and Taiwan" features works by several Altaic writers including Perhat Tursun, Guo Xuebo and Yerkesh Hulmanbek set in rapidly transforming ecologies in Xinjiang, Tibetan and Inner Mongolia. bruce-humes.com/2023/11/13/gra…
The Chinese government wants the world to turn the page on Xinjiang's "crimes against humanity", but the crackdown is not over. 31-year-old Uyghur filmmaker arrested in Beijing & face imprisonment for...being Uyghur. spiegel.de/international/…
Germany's SPIEGEL report on the arrest of Uyghur filmmaker Ikram Nurmehmet. In the report, I criticize a recent opinion piece by senior German sinologists Heberer and Schmidt-Glintzer, which said Xinjiang was much better now after a "successful" campaign against "terror." I…
We are thrilled to announce our U.S. Premiere in Washington, DC with @DX_IFF ! Join us November 5, 11:00! @JewherIlham @AbduwelA @DN_OdessaFilms @TahirIzgil @MihryTursun @UHRP_Chinese @CUyghurs @KuzzatAltay #Uyghurs doubleexposure23.eventive.org/schedule/65236…
Today, PEN International's Women Writers Committee honours renowned anthropologist and leading expert on #Uyghur folklore, #RahileDawut with an Empty Chair. Dawut disappeared in #China in late 2017. In 2021, her imprisonment was confirmed by Radio Free Asia. We call for her…
Monday marks two years since girls were banned from attending high school in Afghanistan. This is an unjustifiable violation of human rights that inflicts long-lasting damage on the entire country. Girls belong in school. Let them back in.
My essay published by @nytimes today. Always thanks to @jlfreeman6 for his excellent translation. nytimes.com/2023/07/28/opi…
For @thenation, I write about two new books on Xinjiang, Perhat Tursun's The Backstreets and @dtbyler's Terror Capitalism, and why Uyghur dispossession must be understood in the contexts of Chinese history, as well as globalization, racism, and capitalism: thenation.com/article/world/…
The media consortium that published the "Xinjiang Police Files" won the Investigative Journalism for Europe "Impact Award". This honors the best investigative journalism carried out by teams collaborating across Europe. Congratulations! ecpmf.eu/2023-ij4eu-imp…
Sabina Knight 桑稟�.. @SabinaKnight1
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News About Turkey - N.. @NewsAboutTurke2
20K Followers 12K Following Founded by a small group of purged academics, #NAT offers critical #news, views, tweets, reports & media commentary regarding #Turkey. Op-eds are welcomed.
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HMM @doepublic
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26K Followers 2K Following Ex CG of China in Kolkata 前中国驻加尔各答总领事 Comments based on interest and stories of real life. Delighted to answer honest questions about China.
Cecialia Zhu @CecialiaZ
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Sabina Knight 桑稟�.. @SabinaKnight1
5K Followers 2K Following Prof @SmithCollege, *Chinese Literature: A #VSI* (Oxford), *Heart of Time* (Harvard) / 雙語 @SangBina / Quaker / #PIPfellow @NCUSCR
James Millward 米華.. @JimMillward
28K Followers 877 Following Historian of China & Central Asia and mandolinist for By & By. Work on Xinjiang, the Qing, Silk Road, & stringed instruments across Eurasia. RTs not plagiarism
Timothy Grose @GroseTimothy
14K Followers 3K Following Associate Prof of #China Studies, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Tweets about #Xinjiang, Islam in China, my twins, and Wed Tibetan song translations #བོད)
Joshua L. Freeman @jlfreeman6
6K Followers 394 Following Chinese cultural history & Uyghur literature at 中央研究院 • Translator, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night @penguinpress • Words @nytimes @TheAtlantic @nybooks @TheTLS
David Tobin @ReasonablyRagin
6K Followers 4K Following Lecturer, East Asian Studies @ShefUniSEAS. Author of Securing China's Northwest Frontier: Identity & Insecurity in Xinjiang https://t.co/WgtzBcIwJk @CambridgeUP
Eric T. Schluessel �.. @EricTSchluessel
5K Followers 1K Following Historian of #Uyghur #Xinjiang and #China in 19-20 c. @GWTweets @ElliottSchoolGW, author of Land of Strangers https://t.co/U4BRkzPhyT 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Asian Review of Books @BookReviewsAsia
12K Followers 392 Following The Asian Review of Books is a dedicated pan-Asia book review publication. (Tweets of other publications' reviews/articles and retweets are for interest only.)
JamesInTurkey.com @jamesinturkey
21K Followers 281 Following Turkish politics website. RTs are interesting, not endorsements. By @MichaelDaventry, not James
Sophie Richardson @SophieDRich
48K Followers 4K Following Views on China/human rights. Visiting Scholar, CDDRL, Stanford. Former China Director, HRW. Views expressed are my own. RTs not endorsement.
International Dunhuan.. @idp_uk
5K Followers 218 Following The International Dunhuang Programme, based @britishlibrary, makes material from the Silk Roads available online in collaboration with international partners.
Euronews Culture @euronewsculture
7K Followers 212 Following Covering art and culture across Europe. 💌 Sign up to our newsletter: https://t.co/VIgiOEWTZk
Rahima Mahmut @MahmutRahima
9K Followers 1K Following Singer, translator, human rights activist. UK Director @uyghurcongress and Executive Director @UyghurStop. Tweets in a personal capacity.
Ukrainian Art History @ukr_arthistory
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Çağdaş Üngör @CagdasUngor
7K Followers 2K Following Professor@ Marmara University, Non-resident fellow@ Middle East Institute---Interested in China, Asia-Pacific, Cold War, media and propaganda studies
Carl Minzner @CarlMinzner
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4K Followers 2K Following I teach Anthropology&Asian studies @Cornell; fmr Director, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm; Cultural Attaché, Swedish Embassy Beijing. Views my own
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Timurid-Mughal Archiv.. @Timurid_Mughal
38K Followers 69 Following A look into the past of the Timurid Gurkanid State (1370 - 1858) of Central Asia & the Indian Subcontinent, otherwise known by the misnomer 'The Mughal Empire'.
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RJL @readjapaneselit... @ReadJapaneseLit
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𝔸ℙ 𝕄𝕖𝕣�.. @ap_bcn
423 Followers 352 Following I research #Sinophone cultures @DTIEAO_UAB. 華文文學及漫畫譯者。Traduttore editoriale dal cinese. 🌈🇨🇦🇮🇹🇪🇸🇪🇺
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20K Followers 12K Following Founded by a small group of purged academics, #NAT offers critical #news, views, tweets, reports & media commentary regarding #Turkey. Op-eds are welcomed.
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944 Followers 497 Following Modern Chinese lit, culture & film @Georgetown; Sinophone, Inter-Asian & Transpacific studies; Ethnic & Indigenous Politics; WGS; CH-EN Translator (he/him)
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4K Followers 724 Following Posts about #Turkic, #Kurdish, #Armenian, #Syriac and other textual cultures and studies in particular, and #linguistics and #history in general.
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8K Followers 9K Following Translations and commentaries from Tibetan cyberspace and social media. Woeser's blog in English. #TibetReadingList twice a year. Find us @ https://t.co/iuFjl0PLzb
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Isolda Morillo 莫沫 @MorilloIsolda
14K Followers 5K Following Journalist & translator. With bylines @ Courrier International, Global Voices, El Pais, AP, TVE and others. 记者，作家，翻译。前美联社,西班牙电视台记者。https://t.co/fKiZGoZKOQ
I’m pro-Palestinian. I am anti-Hamas. It’s not that hard.
年轻女士邹幸彤昨天身穿“人民不会忘记”的纪念六四白色T恤，在香港法庭受审时向听众席举起白纸，声援中国大陆的白纸抗议行动。 邹幸彤是香港支联会副主席、香港大律师，在港版国安法通过后被控多项罪名，但她坚持抗争，英勇不屈。向邹幸彤致敬！赞同者请转发，请点赞！
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Tuned in to Newshour via @bbcworldservice , pleased to hear @raziaiqbal presenting. I am a regular listener and usually Razia presents Monday/Tuesday. Occasionally I am delighted to hear @bbclysedoucet presenting on Saturday, if she is not in the field covering conflicts.
Do tune in at 1400 BST 📻📻@bbcworldservice we will be looking at the #TrumpRaid & also marking the death of legend Lamont Dozier #LamontDozier @motown speaking to the last remaining of the Four Tops @DukeFourTops. #Heatwave2022 in #Iraq #france & #Panamacanal 👂👂🎧
I like all the BBC Newshour presenters, but it's never better than when @raziaiqbal hosts...The gold standard!
@raziaiqbal Here's my slightly less hilarious/alarming sentiment: It's really great to have you back. Everyone was wonderful in your absence, but in my mind there is no replacing Razia.
I miss my mother so much. Release our mother. #FreeRahileDawut
We want the world to hear our message about our mothers on this special day. Happy #MothersDay all the mothers around the world. We ask #China to #ReleaseOurMothers #FreeUyghurMothers
Wow ! Un message puissant avec des questions fortes et intelligentes par Kamalturk pour son père Yalqun Rozi, célèbre écrivain, détenu depuis 2016. #CloseTheCamps #FreeYalqunRozi #FreeUyghurs
-- Beat 406: Kamalturk, USA (English) -- Kamalturk has some questions and a message for the Chinese authorities. His father, Yalqun Rozi (shahit.biz/eng/viewentry.…), was detained in late 2016 and given a 15-year sentence. #uyghurpulse
#China cuts 'freedom of thought' from top university charters Inclusion of pledge to follow Communist party leadership sparks rare defiance at #Fudan theguardian.com/world/2019/dec…
今天在土耳其伊斯坦布尔举行的反对中国针对维吾尔人的非人道暴行的集会
Today’s protest in Istanbul against China’s inhuman treatment Uyghurs and other ethnic Muslims in East Turkistan
The Guardian is looking for a second China correspondent! Come work with me. gnm.taleo.net/careersection/…
I thought I was the only one. Writers and creatives are struggling yet we appear not to be on the payroll department’s priority list. docs.google.com/document/d/1Bv… #FairPayForFreelancers
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