In Commemoration of Yusup Has Hajip’s 1000th Birthday and the 34th Anniversary of the December 12th Uyghur Student Movement in Urumchi Date and Time: Saturday, November 23, 2019; 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Address: 46015 Loudoun Park Lane, Sterling, VA 20164 Conference Agenda: Introduction of the Uyghur Academy USA - Dr. Abliz Abduqadir Overview of National Patriotism from the Yusup Has Hajip and Mehmud Kashgary Era ...

The European Union Parliament has awarded Associate Professor Ilham Tohti, who is an economist in a Chinese prison with Sakharov Prize for free speech. The Uyghur Academy would like to congratulate Associate Professor Ilham Tohti for winning the prize. Associate Professor Ilham Tohti is a hero who impressed the world with his determination and courage. Under the Chinese communist dictator regime, he courage ...

Sinicization is defined as bringing people who are not of Chinese descent under the influence of the Chinese culture. Truly speaking, it is a process where societies that are traditionally non-Chinese are put under the influence of the Han Chinese communities, by adapting to their culture, customs, and way of life. Along with Dr Imtiyaz, an area specialist on ethnic and minority studies, I have been calling ...

WashingonPost BEIJING — For 15 years, Yalqun Rozi skillfully navigated state bureaucracies to publish textbooks that taught classic poems and folk tales to millions of his fellow minority Uighurs in China’s far western region of Xinjiang. That all changed three years ago when the ruling Communist Party launched what it says is a campaign against ethnic separatism and religious extremism in Xinjiang. Suddenl ...

By Darren Byler SupChina Since 2018, there has been a notable rise in articles promoting marriage between Han men and Uyghur women.  At a time when many people across China think of Uyghur men as potential terrorists and Uyghur women as potential fashion models, a new interethnic sexual politics is being institutionalized across Xinjiang. In May 2019, a young Uyghur graduate student in Europe who I’ll refer ...