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Author: Diego Benning Wang
Author: Diego Benning Wang 
Diego Benning Wang
Written articles:
“Ghérip-Senem”: The visualization of Persianate poetic symbolism in Uyghur cinema
Diego Benning Wang explores how the 1981 Uyghur film Ghérip-Senem turns a shared Persianate-Turkic romance into distinctly Uyghur cinema through poetry, music and visual symbolism. [...]
Ivy League Orientalism: Staging Samarkand in Princeton, 1926
A century ago, Princeton’s Triangle Club staged Samarkand, a lavish comic opera that transformed the Central Asian city into an Orientalist fantasy of romance, luxury and exoticism. Diego Benning Wang… [...]
The Silk Road Paradigm and the Dilemma of In-Between
Support Novastan, the European Central Asia magazine By supporting Novastan, you are supporting the only English, French and German-language media specialising in Central Asia. We’re independent and we need your… [...]