Assassination News
Here is some news on the assassination that we covered here: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/30/world/asia/jume-tahir-murder-verdict-xinjiang.html?_r=0
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More riots in Yarkant
More Violence in Yarkant County: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/29/xinjiang-attack_n_6240380.html?utm We reported on earlier violence in the same place here.
The Disappearance of Newspapers
In China’s east, newspapers are ubiquitous. Living in Nanjing in 2009, I was spoiled for choices. In the ten minute walk to school, I would pass two or three news stands, each of them overflowing with newspapers from everywhere, including five to ten local papers like the Yangtse Evening Post, Beijing official broadsides like the …
Renewed Violence in Xinjiang
On our way from Turpan to Kashgar, we passed through a county where violence recently broke out again, in mid October. Violence there has become so regular that it is not being widely reported, and I did not hear about it until now. At least 22 People are Reported Killed in Attack at a Market in …
Making it Big in the Red and Black
Check out this article on us in the Red and Black: UGA grads hitchhike China’s Silk Road Thanks again for the interview from Daniel Funke, a distant relative of Tobias Funke. http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/i-just-blue-myself