Monthly Archives: February 2010
Was it an Accident? Part 3
Re: Readings in Wang Lixiong, 《我的西域，你的东土》 (My West Land, Your East Country). This past summer, I had two separate posts on the fates of Ahmetjan Kasimi (阿合买提江• 哈斯木), Ishaq Beg (伊斯哈克伯 • 穆努诺夫), Abdulkerim Abbas (阿不都克里木• 阿巴素夫), Delilhan Sugurbayev (达列尔夫 • 苏克尔巴也夫), and Luo Zhi … Continue reading
Filed under Liberation, Xinjiang
《我的西域，你的东土》 My West Land, Your East Country
《我的西域，你的东土》 The controversial 2007 book “My West Land, Your East Country” by Wang Lixiong is available for download. Try here, or here. The advantage of the PDF version is that, for people like me who have trouble with 繁体字, it … Continue reading
Filed under East Turkestan, Wang Zhen, Xinjiang
Owen Lattimore, the Pivot of Asia, and the FBI
Lately I’ve been quite enamored with the book Pivot of Asia: Sinkiang and the Inner Asian Frontiers of China and Russia (1950) written by Owen Lattimore and a team of researchers. Written just prior to the PLA invasion of Xinjiang, … Continue reading
Filed under Owen Lattimore, Xinjiang
Wang Zhen and Xinjiang [王震与新疆]
Wang Zhen’s [王震] role in governing Xinjiang, and in particular implementing certain social and economic reforms in the early 1950s, is in need of reexamination. Too much focus on the bingtuan, not enough focus on reform of the Kazakh herders, … Continue reading
Filed under Liberation, Sino-Soviet Relations, Xinjiang
