Xinjiang Documentation Project Archive
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- Title: Learning Materials: Peasant Paintings
- Subject: Visual Teaching Materials
- Language: English
- Item Type: Document
- Description: Peasant paintings are common throughout the People’s Republic of China and play an important role in Chinese folk art. These colourful paintings are found throughout the countryside promoting Chinese pride and aspirations. However, oftentimes in Xinjiang, these paintings have been used as a tool to encourage ethnic assimilation and portray Turkic Muslim communities that do not adhere to Party values as radical secessionists.
- Description: Peasant paintings are common throughout the People’s Republic of China and play an important role in Chinese folk art. These colourful paintings are found throughout the countryside promoting Chinese pride and aspirations. However, oftentimes in Xinjiang, these paintings have been used as a tool to encourage ethnic assimilation and portray Turkic Muslim communities that do not adhere to Party values as radical secessionists.
- Title: Lesson Plan: The Contested Archive
- Creator: Dr. Eric Schluessel
- Subject: Lesson Plan
- Language: English
- Item Type: Document
- Description: In conjunction with the Xinjiang Victims Database, students will analyze primary sources to develop their own understanding of the situation based the evidence at hand. This is a “history of the present” exercise in which students will spend a class period conducting simulated research in a “Xinjiang archive.” They will begin with a simple question—“What is happening in Xinjiang?”—and come to their own conclusions through a guided activity. Prof. Schluessel’s research focuses on the social and economic history of Xinjiang. He has published a monograph on the Qing empire’s efforts to transform Xinjiang into a culturally Chinese territory, Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia, as well as articles on the region’s experiences with local government and the law.
- Description: In conjunction with the Xinjiang Victims Database, students will analyze primary sources to develop their own understanding of the situation based the evidence at hand. This is a “history of the present” exercise in which students will spend a class period conducting simulated research in a “Xinjiang archive.” They will begin with a simple question—“What is happening in Xinjiang?”—and come to their own conclusions through a guided activity. Prof. Schluessel’s research focuses on the social and economic history of Xinjiang. He has published a monograph on the Qing empire’s efforts to transform Xinjiang into a culturally Chinese territory, Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia, as well as articles on the region’s experiences with local government and the law.
- Title: Role-Playing Game: The Quandary of Muslim Minorities in...
- Creator: You Xi
- Subject: Role-Playing Game
- Language: English
- Item Type: Document
- Description: You Xi designed the Xinjiang game for a teaching demo at a campus visit after being given the task of teaching race and religion in modern Chinese history. You Xi consulted with Mark Carnes, the founder of Reacting to the Past, about the game design. The main goal is to make students aware of the contemporary crisis of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, through reading government documents, journalist reports and witness accounts.
- Description: You Xi designed the Xinjiang game for a teaching demo at a campus visit after being given the task of teaching race and religion in modern Chinese history. You Xi consulted with Mark Carnes, the founder of Reacting to the Past, about the game design. The main goal is to make students aware of the contemporary crisis of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, through reading government documents, journalist reports and witness accounts.
- Title: Role-Playing Game: The Quandary of Muslim Minorities in...
- Creator: You Xi
- Subject: Role-Playing Game
- Language: English
- Item Type: Document
- Description: You Xi designed the Xinjiang game for a teaching demo at a campus visit after being given the task of teaching race and religion in modern Chinese history. You Xi consulted with Mark Carnes, the founder of Reacting to the Past, about the game design. The main goal is to make students aware of the contemporary crisis of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, through reading government documents, journalist reports and witness accounts.
- Description: You Xi designed the Xinjiang game for a teaching demo at a campus visit after being given the task of teaching race and religion in modern Chinese history. You Xi consulted with Mark Carnes, the founder of Reacting to the Past, about the game design. The main goal is to make students aware of the contemporary crisis of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, through reading government documents, journalist reports and witness accounts.
- Title: Role-Playing Game: The Quandary of Muslim Minorities in...
- Creator: You Xi
- Subject: Role-Playing Game
- Language: English
- Item Type: Document
- Description: You Xi designed the Xinjiang game for a teaching demo at a campus visit after being given the task of teaching race and religion in modern Chinese history. You Xi consulted with Mark Carnes, the founder of Reacting to the Past, about the game design. The main goal is to make students aware of the contemporary crisis of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, through reading government documents, journalist reports and witness accounts.
- Description: You Xi designed the Xinjiang game for a teaching demo at a campus visit after being given the task of teaching race and religion in modern Chinese history. You Xi consulted with Mark Carnes, the founder of Reacting to the Past, about the game design. The main goal is to make students aware of the contemporary crisis of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, through reading government documents, journalist reports and witness accounts.
- Title: Syllabus: Genocide Today
- Creator: Magnus Fiskesjö
- Subject: Syllabus
- Language: English
- Item Type: Document
- Description: This course has three components: 1, Background on genocide and on the Genocide Convention of 1948, 2, the Rohingya genocide in Burma which was started in 2017, and 3, the genocide against the Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other native people of western China (Xinjiang), also started in 2017. The course objective is to have students learn about the concept and history of genocide as the intentional annihilation of a group or nation, and to understand and compare the origins, development, and criticism of the current ongoing genocides in Burma and in China.
- Description: This course has three components: 1, Background on genocide and on the Genocide Convention of 1948, 2, the Rohingya genocide in Burma which was started in 2017, and 3, the genocide against the Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other native people of western China (Xinjiang), also started in 2017. The course objective is to have students learn about the concept and history of genocide as the intentional annihilation of a group or nation, and to understand and compare the origins, development, and criticism of the current ongoing genocides in Burma and in China.
- Title: Syllabus: Language, Knowledge, and Power
- Creator: Sam Liao
- Subject: Syllabus
- Language: English
- Item Type: Document
- Description: Language, Knowledge, and Power is an introductory philosophy course that draws on current events in Xinjiang to examine the intersection of technology, social epistemology, and oppression. Students will contextualize their reading of primary sources such as leaked official documents with theoretical texts on language games and knowledge production. This teaching plan was originally published on Medium.com. Prof. Liao’s research interests include etiquette, race, and decolonization, and he has published articles on topics such as imaginative resistance.
- Description: Language, Knowledge, and Power is an introductory philosophy course that draws on current events in Xinjiang to examine the intersection of technology, social epistemology, and oppression. Students will contextualize their reading of primary sources such as leaked official documents with theoretical texts on language games and knowledge production. This teaching plan was originally published on Medium.com. Prof. Liao’s research interests include etiquette, race, and decolonization, and he has published articles on topics such as imaginative resistance.
