BRINGING THE TOURISTS BACK A SLICE OF LIFE IN XINJIANG FOREIGN EYES ON ETHNIC TENSIONS U.S. TAKE ON URUMQI RIOTS BEST WORST THINGS ABOUT LIFE IN XINJIANG XINJIANG CULTURE WEEK
Jackie Logan has been the head of the English First Center in Urumqi, the regional capital of Xinjiang, for the past five years. Her centre employs both Han and Uyghur teachers and has students from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. BON spoke to her to get her views on how hard it’s been for the different communities in the city over the past few months and how the people there are attempting to rebuild their shattered lives.
Xinjiang province in China's northwest is a hotbed of ethnic tensions, with much of the majority Uygur population angry at the migration of Han Chinese to a region they want as an independent state.
Now, as BON's Andrew Livingstone reports, in an effort to ease friction by improving living standards, these shanty towns are being replaced by modern apartments.
After a long journey along the old pathway, through cold western winds and lonely smoke on endless desert, the Silk Road leads to its southwestern exit in China on to Asia and Europe.
China announced it has broken up a terrorist ring involved in plotting attacks in China's Xinjiang region, just ahead of the one-year anniversary of ethnic rioting in the region that left 200 dead.
Yesterday marked one year since the outbreak of deadly ethnic riots in the region of Xinjiang in western China. The violence between Han Chinese and Uighurs claimed nearly 200 lives, injured almost two thousand others, and led to death sentences for twenty-six people involved. Tony Zhou looks back at what happened – and the effects it has had on ordinary people and the leadership over the last year …
Zach Ebling invites guests from different ethnic backgrounds to discuss ethnic persity in China, and to share the highs and lows of living as a minority in a foreign country.
Zach Ebling invites guests from different ethnic backgrounds to discuss ethnic persity in China, and to share the highs and lows of living as a minority in a foreign country.