Tag: Xinjiang
“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. [...]
Festive table
In the Chinese province of Xinjiang, this festive table adheres to all the traditions of Kazakh hospitality. Indeed, the host belongs to the region’s Kazakh minority. Despite Chinese repression… [...]
The story of the Xinjiang Kazakhs: silent suffering along the Belt and Road
Relations between Kazakhstan and China are deepening fast. As a linchpin in Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative, Astana hopes to pluck the fruits of this global infrastructure development strategy,… [...]
70 years of Xinjiang: Beijing celebrates and enacts new political doctrine
The 70th anniversary of Xinjiang, China’s Uyghur region, was celebrated with great fanfare in Ürümqi. The ceremony was marked by the presence of Xi Jinping, the first Chinese president… [...]
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Piece of choice
At the table, mutton fat is considered to be the best and noblest part of the meat, which is offered to guests to honour them. On the markets, the… [...]
Banquet table
On the table, melons, watermelons, sweets, biscuits, fried bread (boorsock), pyramids of sangza (a Uighur speciality of fried noodles) and, of course, bowls of tea. Behind the… [...]
A respectful welcome
In front of his yurt set up for the summer in the province of Khorgos, on the border between China and Kazakhstan, the owner welcomes a guest… [...]
Buddhist Stupa
The impressive 3-floor ruins of an ancient Buddhist Stupa belonging the ancient city of Karakhoja or Qocho near the modern town of Turpan… [...]
