http://beijingcream.com/2013/10/dispatches-from-xinjiang-uyghur-comedy-and-abdukerim-abliz/ A Dollop of China Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:42:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://beijingcream.com/2013/10/dispatches-from-xinjiang-uyghur-comedy-and-abdukerim-abliz/#comment-396195 Fri, 15 Jul 2016 19:32:01 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=19339#comment-396195 […] music: the relationship of young men to their mothers and by extension their Uyghur identity. When Abdukerim Abliz made an etot or comedy sketch using only song lyrics, he used this song and everyone in the […]

]]> http://beijingcream.com/2013/10/dispatches-from-xinjiang-uyghur-comedy-and-abdukerim-abliz/#comment-266887 Sat, 12 Apr 2014 20:54:16 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=19339#comment-266887 [...] music: the relationship of young men to their mothers and by extension their Uyghur identity. When Abdukerim Abliz made an etot or comedy sketch using only song lyrics, he used this song and everyone in the [...]

]]> http://beijingcream.com/2013/10/dispatches-from-xinjiang-uyghur-comedy-and-abdukerim-abliz/#comment-243071 Thu, 26 Dec 2013 16:45:33 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=19339#comment-243071 [...] film Shewket’s Summer directed by Pan Yu with assistance from Beijing Film Academy students, Abdukerim Abliz joins the Uyghur hip-hop crew Six City as a reticent folk musician. The film, which is both a [...]

]]> http://beijingcream.com/2013/10/dispatches-from-xinjiang-uyghur-comedy-and-abdukerim-abliz/#comment-241883 Fri, 13 Dec 2013 03:49:40 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=19339#comment-241883 [...] feelings the tambur player expresses are echoed in Adil Mijit’s 2008 etot or comedy sketch. Beginning in the mid-1990s Adil became one of the most Uyghur famous comedians; it was under his [...]

]]> http://beijingcream.com/2013/10/dispatches-from-xinjiang-uyghur-comedy-and-abdukerim-abliz/#comment-234115 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:59:02 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=19339#comment-234115 [...] sketch comedy that I outlined last week ends with a return to proper gender norms: a husband taking responsibility for his wife and [...]

]]> http://beijingcream.com/2013/10/dispatches-from-xinjiang-uyghur-comedy-and-abdukerim-abliz/#comment-233656 Sun, 27 Oct 2013 23:10:12 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=19339#comment-233656 Thanks for posting these insightful blogs helping everyone make sense of Uyghur identity and culture. I thoroughly enjoyed a trip to Xinjiang as a ski mountaineer this past July and was blown as by the hospitality of the Uyghur people. I am editing a short video about our trip, and in doing so, am interested in understanding the Uyghur people more. I finished a trip report, with some preliminary thoughts, but am having a harder time turning it into a film. Here’s a copy of the trip report if you are interested: http://www.summitpost.org/skiing-muztagh-ata-china/872095
And here is an album of photos I shot called Uyghur Faces of Xinjiang: http://500px.com/PeakAestheticProductions/stories/102966/uygher-faces-of-xinjiang-china

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