Xinjiang / East Turkestan Uyghur Region
Here's an updated and expanded starter pack of scholars posting about the Xinjiang Uyghur Region (XUAR) aka East Turkestan and its various peoples. Some content on Tibet, Mongolia, PRC ethnic policies and related topics as well.
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@jimmillward.bsky.social
@jsmithfinley.bsky.social
Reader in Chinese Studies, Newcastle University, UK. Sinologist/Social anthropologist/Political scientist. I study the Uyghur region (a.k.a Xinjiang, NW China).
@adrianzenz.bsky.social
Director in China Studies, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Research focus: Xinjiang, Tibet, authoritarian repression, re-education internment, ILO, Uyghur / state-imposed forced labor, OSINT. https://victimsofcommunism.org/leader/adrian-zenz-phd
@shahit.biz
Official account of the Xinjiang Victims Database (http://shahit.biz). Spotlighting victims and sharing database updates. Our work is 100% crowdfunded: https://www.gofundme.com/f/xinjiang-victims-database-work
@rayhanasat.bsky.social
Human rights lawyer and international law scholar. Osgoode Hall, Harvard, Oxford alum. Senior Legal and Policy Advisory & China Project Lead at Atlantic Council Strategic Litigation.
@jleibold.bsky.social
Professor of politics and Asian studies, LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia
@ericschluessel.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. of Hist. and Intl. Affrs. at Grg. Wshngtn. Univ. Historian of the Uyghur region/Xinjiang/East Turkestan/Moghulistan/etc.
@dbyler.bsky.social
Anthropologist at Simon Fraser University. Author of Terror Capitalism (Duke 2022) and In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony (Columbia 2021).
@drdavidtobin.bsky.social
Lecturer in East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield. Author of 'Securing China's Northwest Frontier: Identity and Insecurity in Xinjiang' (Cambridge University Press) https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/seas/people/academic-staff/david-tobin
@rianthum.bsky.social
Historian of Uyghurs, Hui, and Muslims in China at the U of Manchester.
@lauratmurphy.bsky.social
Today: prof at Sheffield Hallam U, Senior Associate at CSIS; Previously: Policy Advisor at Department of Homeland Security in Biden admin Always: researcher on forced labor
@timothyagrose.bsky.social
Associate Professor (Uyghur homeland, ethnic policy in China); Tibetan pop music translator; organizer of "Tibetan Separatist Activities" according to ChinaDaily
@wlodekcieciura.bsky.social
Assistant professor, Department of Sinology, University of Warsaw, history of Islam and Muslims in the Sinophone World
@cloedrieu.bsky.social
Historienne au @CNRS - @Cespra - @Ehess Violences de masse, droit, justice et sciences sociales et violences génocides ; Région ouïghoure, Asie centrale stalinienne, Première Guerre mondiale, Afghanistan https://cespra.ehess.fr/membres/cloe-drieu
@ruslanyn.bsky.social
@robertsreport.bsky.social
Professor of Int'l Development @GWU. Follow culture and politics of Central Asia with a particular focus on the Uyghur people. Author of "The War on the Uyghurs" (Princeton University Press, 2020)
@jimmillward.bsky.social
Historian of Sinitic lands and Central Asia at Georgetown University, and mandolinist for By & By. Work on Qing Empire, the Uyghur Region, Silk Road, stringed instruments in world history.