Dispatches From Xinjiang is a weekly column by Beige Wind, an anthropology doctoral student who studies urban living, popular culture, and the arts in the cities of Northwest China. He runs the website The Art of Life in Chinese Central Asia, which attempts to recognize and create dialogue around the ways minority people create a durable existence, and, in turn, how these voices from the margins implicate all of us in simultaneously distinctive and connected ways. Here are the posts in blog view.
2013
- 2013.08.01 Abdulla, King Of Uyghur Women, The Leonard Cohen Of Northwest China
- 2013.08.08 The Affect Of Ethnic Friendship And The Music Video “Harmonious Xinjiang”
- 2013.08.15 Cultural Appropriation And The Singer Luo Lin, a.k.a. “Dao Lang”
- 2013.08.22 Aspirational Desire, Migrant Masculinity And “Dao Lang”
- 2013.08.29 Uyghur Memories And Berna, A 7-Year-Old Pop Star From Ürümchi (Part 1)
- 2013.09.05 Gendered Futures, “Mother Tongue,” And Berna The Uyghur City Girl
- 2013.09.12 Chen Zhifeng, Billionaire, Patron of the Arts
- 2013.09.19 Chen Zhifeng And His Million-Dollar Horses
- 2013.09.26 Adil, “Prince of the Sky,” Uyghur Diplomat
- 2013.10.03 The Dreams Of Uyghur Kids And The Film “On A Tightrope”
- 2013.10.10 Uyghur Soccer, Askar And Wild Bodies
- 2013.10.17 The Social Effects Of Uyghur Food On Qurban
- 2013.10.24 Uyghur Comedy And Abdukerim Abliz
- 2013.10.31 Comic Tragedy And Uyghur Women
- 2013.11.07 Minor Transnationalisms And A Kazakh Singer On “The Voice Of China”
- 2013.11.14 Climbing The Father Of Ice Mountains
- 2013.11.21 The Legacy Of Ai Qing’s Chinese Central Asian Poetics
- 2013.11.28 Wang Meng, Chinese Literary Giant, Uyghur Speaker
- 2013.12.05 The Silk Road Of Pop, Reviewed
- 2013.12.12 Rap vs. Folk
- 2013.12.19 Sufi Poetry And The Uyghur Justin Bieber
- 2013.12.26 Uyghur Hip-Hop As Folk Music
2014
- 2014.01.02 “Battle” And Uyghur Life In Chinese Cities
- 2014.01.09 Xu Xin’s “Karamay” And Life In The New Economy
- 2014.01.16 Ablajan, The Uyghur Bieber, Channels Michael Jackson In Debut Mandarin Video
- 2014.01.23 Success Stories Of Going Abroad And The Uyghur Pop Star Möminjan
- 2014.01.30 Möminjan, Turkish Pop, And Islamic Devotion
- 2014.02.06 A Uyghur Chinese New Year
- 2014.02.13 Aspiration, Masculinity And The City: Hezriti Ali’s Film Short And Music Video “With Me”
- 2014.02.20 “Older Brother” Abdulla, The King Of Uyghur Music
- 2014.03.06 Double Consciousness And The Future Of Uyghur Pride
- 2014.03.13 In Memory Of An Artist, Memetjan Abla, Lost On MH370
- 2014.03.21 Who Are The Guang Hui Flying Tigers Of Xinjiang?
- 2014.03.27 The Legacy Of A Uyghur Rock Icon
- 2014.04.04 Shiralijan’s Fist And The Xinjiang Spirit
- 2014.04.11 A Uyghur Dream Manifesto
- 2014.04.24 Traffic Lights And Uyghur Black Humor
- 2014.05.01 Uyghurs And The Fog Of Drugs
- 2014.05.08 The Urumqi Bombing And What It Means To Be A Uyghur Man
- 2014.05.15 A Poetic Recording As Popular As Song
- 2014.05.22 So You Think Uyghurs Can Dance
- 2014.06.13 Hong Qi, The Uyghur Folksinger Who Grew Up Han
- 2014.06.19 The “Real” Hong Qi, Bob Dylan, And Ürümchi
- 2014.06.26 Liu Xiaodong’s “Hotan Project” And The Xinjiang Biennale
- 2014.07.03 The Story Of The Production And Construction Corps
- 2014.07.24 “Encounter On The Silk Road” At The Xinjiang Art Biennale
- 2014.08.04 The Rise Of Buddhism In The Far West
- 2014.08.07 Celebrating Roza In A Time Of Fear
- 2014.08.18 Uyghur Rock Star Perhat On The Voice Of China
- 2014.09.01 Baseball In Xinjiang And The Film “Diamond In The Dunes”
- 2014.09.11 The Art Of The China-Eurasia Expo
- 2014.09.18 Why Do Uyghurs Speak English So Well?
- 2014.09.25 Perhat, Part 2 – A Gracious Uyghur Rock Star
- 2014.10.16 Sheep, Sangza And Happiness: Xinjiang Celebrates Eid al-Adha
- 2014.10.27 The Uyghur Blockbuster “Money On The Road”
- 2014.11.06 The Uyghur Migrant Food Network
- 2014.11.20 Uyghur Flamenco And “World Citizenship”
- 2014.12.11 The Blind Voice Of The New Silk Road
2015
- 2015.01.30 Uyghur Kids And Their “Dream From The Heart”
- 2015.02.12 “Lift” And The Future Of Uyghur Film
- 2015.02.26 The Edge of the Bazaar, A Documentary About Uyghur Rural Life
- 2015.03.19 The Poetic, Timeless Solitude In Tahir Hamut’s “Beautiful Lover”
- 2015.04.09 The Future Of Uyghur Tradition In “Rahime,” A Short Film By Mukaddas Mijit
- 2015.04.23 New Short Film Looks At Uyghur Housewives And Gender Equality
- 2015.05.29 On The First Uyghur Contemporary Art Show
- 2015.06.19 Ali K.’s “Burial” Photo Series
- 2015.07.17 Carolyn Drake’s Book Of Xinjiang Photography, “Wild Pigeon”
- 2015.09.03 Qurbanjan Semet’s Photobook “I Am From Xinjiang On The Silk Road”
- 2015.09.17 New Uyghur Interior Design And Dilmurat Abdukadir’s Fascinating Facsimiles
- 2015.11.19 Uyghur Restaurant Eden Arrives In America To Mixed Reviews
- 2015.12.15 Uyghurs And “Terrorism”