[marxmail] How the Left Can Oppose the Uyghur Genocide ❧ Current Affairs

[Louis Proyect]

China’s relations with the Uyghurs, and their activities in Xinjiang, 
have been driven by settler colonial ambitions, dating to 1949 when the 
region was incorporated into the newly-formed People’s Republic of China 
(PRC), and even further back into the 19^th century. Xinjiang, the 
Chinese name for the region where the Uyghurs reside, bears traces of 
these colonial origins. After East Turkestan wasreconquered 
<https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780415728386>by the Qing empire in 
1884, it was named Xinjiang, meaning “New Dominion” or “New Territory” 
in Chinese. (Uyghurs still often prefer to refer to their homeland by 
the older term, East Turkestan.) Although there were stirrings of an 
independence movement in Xinjiang during the Republican era 
(1910-1949)—and communist China nominally recognized Uyghur 
self-governance by renaming the province “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous 
Region,” on the model of the Soviet autonomous Republics of Uzbekistan 
and Kazakhstan—Uyghur language and identity have been consistently 
suppressed throughout the communist period.


https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/01/how-the-left-can-oppose-the-uyghur-genocide



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