HS5: China and the Uyghurs & Understanding Russia (1)

Podcast

Content

1. China and the Uyghurs
2. Understanding Russia: (I): Vladimir Sorokin’s “Day of the Oprichnik”

Sources & Resources

1. China and the Uyghurs
Gardner Bovingdon. The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. https://www.amazon.com/Uyghurs-Strangers-Their-Own-Land/dp/0231147589

Al Jazeera report on China’s Uyghurs (intro to the topic)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9aLNxcokOE

NY Times article on the detention camps https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/world/asia/china-uighur-muslim-detention-camp.html

New York Times’ “Xinjiang Papers” (leaked government papers) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html

Footage of blindfolded Uyghur prisoners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGYoeJ5U7cQ

Gulbahar Haitiwaji. How I Survived A Chinese Reeducation Camp: A Uyghur Woman’s Story. Seven Stories Press, 2022. – fragment from the book https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/12/uighur-xinjiang-re-education-camp-china-gulbahar-haitiwaji

Sayragul Sauytbay & Alexandra Cavelius. The Chief Witness: Escape from China’s Modern-Day Concentration Camps. Scribe US, 2021. – fragment from the book https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9573113/Survivor-Chinas-modern-day-concentration-camps-reveals-horrors-walls.html

Paul Hollander, From the Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence and Repression in Communist States, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006 – an excellent collection of readings on the labor and re-education camps in China and other communist countries https://www.amazon.com/Gulag-Killing-Fields-Political-Repression/dp/1932236783

Radio Free Asia / Uyghur (with news about the situation)  https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur World Uyghur Congress  https://www.uyghurcongress.org/en/ and on Twitter https://twitter.com/uyghurcongress

2. Understanding Russia (I): Vladimir Sorokin’s “Day of the Oprichnik”
Vladimir Sorokin – Day of the Oprichnik  https://www.amazon.com/Day-Oprichnik-Novel-Vladimir-Sorokin/dp/0374533105

Peter Pomerantsev – Nothing is True and Everything is Possible https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-True-Everything-Possible-Surreal/dp/1610396006

dedovshchina
– about https://www.hrw.org/reports/2004/russia1004/5.htm`
– investigative Vice article https://www.vice.com/en/article/gqdx44/full-v13n4
– specific case https://meduza.io/en/news/2019/11/06/russian-soldier-who-gunned-down-eight-fellow-servicemembers-was-retaliating-against-hazing-says-his-father

---