Xinjiang Documentation Project Archive
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- Title: Employment and Labor Rights in Xinjiang - An...
- Creator: Xinjiang Documentation Project
- Subject: Employment Statistics and Conditions within Xinjiang
- Language: English
- Item Type: Document
- Description: This paper focuses on current employment statistics and conditions within Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, reviewing labour rights of workers, and presenting the government’s case that China is meeting its commitment to international human rights and labour standards.
- Description: This paper focuses on current employment statistics and conditions within Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, reviewing labour rights of workers, and presenting the government’s case that China is meeting its commitment to international human rights and labour standards.
- Title: Examining the 2015 World Bank’s Xinjiang Technical and...
- Creator: Remy Hellstern
- Date: Thursday, July 29, 2021
- Subject: World Bank Funding
- Language: English
- Item Type: Document
- Description: In December 2014, the World Bank introduced a new project, Xinjiang Technical and Vocational Education and Training Project. The expressed goal of this loan was to usher in school-based reform, strengthen the connection between schools and industry, improve external support for vocational schools, employ high-quality teachers, and upgrade equipment and facilities. This project planned on supplying 50 million USD, between 2015 to 2020, to five vocational schools throughout Xinjiang to encourage ethnic minorities in the region to enroll. However, upon further examination, there is reason to believe some of the funding from this loan went to teachers and staff working at traditional schools and re-education centers.
- Description: In December 2014, the World Bank introduced a new project, Xinjiang Technical and Vocational Education and Training Project. The expressed goal of this loan was to usher in school-based reform, strengthen the connection between schools and industry, improve external support for vocational schools, employ high-quality teachers, and upgrade equipment and facilities. This project planned on supplying 50 million USD, between 2015 to 2020, to five vocational schools throughout Xinjiang to encourage ethnic minorities in the region to enroll. However, upon further examination, there is reason to believe some of the funding from this loan went to teachers and staff working at traditional schools and re-education centers.
- Title: Exclusive: Documents show China's secret extradition request for...
- Creator: Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian
- Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2020
- Subject: Extradition Treaty
- Language: English
- Item Type: Document
- Description: Leaked diplomatic cables from China to Turkey regarding an extradition request shows that China’s judicial system has reach beyond its borders in controlling Uyghur bodies. Enver Turdi, the individual being extradited in this case “passed along information about Chinese government abuses to Radio Free Asia and to Uyghur organizations abroad.”
- Description: Leaked diplomatic cables from China to Turkey regarding an extradition request shows that China’s judicial system has reach beyond its borders in controlling Uyghur bodies. Enver Turdi, the individual being extradited in this case “passed along information about Chinese government abuses to Radio Free Asia and to Uyghur organizations abroad.”
- Title: Extending Grassroots Power and Mobilizing the People: How...
- Creator: Yao Qu
- Date: Thursday, August 12, 2021
- Subject: State Surveillance
- Language: English
- Item Type: Document
- Description: As part of the crackdown on Turkic people in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) from 2016, Chen Quanguo (陈全国), the current Party secretary in the XUAR, reproduced an all-pervasive security system across the region from his Tibetan experience, called the Ten Family Joint Defence groups (TFJD, 十户联防), which involves almost all residents in public security activities in the name of ‘counterterrorism.’ The TFJD is not a new invention by the XUAR authority; on the contrary, it is a result of decades of efforts by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to extend its power at the grassroots level and a long history of mobilizing the people as a way to organize security forces at a low cost in earlier Chinese regimes (both Imperial and Republican).
- Description: As part of the crackdown on Turkic people in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) from 2016, Chen Quanguo (陈全国), the current Party secretary in the XUAR, reproduced an all-pervasive security system across the region from his Tibetan experience, called the Ten Family Joint Defence groups (TFJD, 十户联防), which involves almost all residents in public security activities in the name of ‘counterterrorism.’ The TFJD is not a new invention by the XUAR authority; on the contrary, it is a result of decades of efforts by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to extend its power at the grassroots level and a long history of mobilizing the people as a way to organize security forces at a low cost in earlier Chinese regimes (both Imperial and Republican).
- Title: Forced Labour and Detainment Transfer Timeline
- Creator: Xinjiang Documentation Project
- Subject: Vocational Training Centres
- Language: English
- Item Type: Document
- Description: This timeline shows the steps Chinese authorities took to present the internment camp system as ‘vocational training centres’. Under international pressure, state spokespersons have announced the camps as “closed” but in fact, the detainees have either been transferred into long-term prisons or have become forced labourers.
- Description: This timeline shows the steps Chinese authorities took to present the internment camp system as ‘vocational training centres’. Under international pressure, state spokespersons have announced the camps as “closed” but in fact, the detainees have either been transferred into long-term prisons or have become forced labourers.
- Title: Freedom of Religious Belief in Xinjiang
- Creator: The State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China
- Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2016
- Subject: “De-extremization” Policies
- Language: English
- Item Type: Document
- Description: This paper begins by giving a historical overview of inter and intrareligious conflict in Xinjiang and the surrounding regions to illustrate a lack of freedom of religion in the region. It claims that the total freedom of religion was achieved only after the People’s Republic of China was founded. The paper then boasts of the success of these “de-extremization” policies and concludes by highlighting the need to shape and localize the development of religions for the religions own benefit.
- Description: This paper begins by giving a historical overview of inter and intrareligious conflict in Xinjiang and the surrounding regions to illustrate a lack of freedom of religion in the region. It claims that the total freedom of religion was achieved only after the People’s Republic of China was founded. The paper then boasts of the success of these “de-extremization” policies and concludes by highlighting the need to shape and localize the development of religions for the religions own benefit.
- Title: Freedom of Religious Belief in Xinjiang - An...
- Creator: Xinjiang Documentation Project
- Subject: “De-extremization” Policies
- Language: English
- Item Type: Document
- Description: This paper begins by giving a historical overview of inter and intrareligious conflict in Xinjiang and the surrounding regions to illustrate a lack of freedom of religion in the region. It claims that the total freedom of religion was achieved only after the People’s Republic of China was founded. The paper then boasts of the success of these “de-extremization” policies and concludes by highlighting the need to shape and localize the development of religions for the religions own benefit.
- Description: This paper begins by giving a historical overview of inter and intrareligious conflict in Xinjiang and the surrounding regions to illustrate a lack of freedom of religion in the region. It claims that the total freedom of religion was achieved only after the People’s Republic of China was founded. The paper then boasts of the success of these “de-extremization” policies and concludes by highlighting the need to shape and localize the development of religions for the religions own benefit.
- Title: Historical Matters Concerning Xinjiang
- Creator: The State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China
- Date: Monday, July 1, 2019
- Subject: State Historical Perspective on Xinjiang
- Language: English
- Item Type: Document
- Description: The paper begins by emphasizing the inseparability Xinjiang from Chinese territory. It highlights the multiethnic nature of Xinjiang and emphasizes that “Islam is neither an indigenous nor the sole belief system of the Uyghur people. It has taken root in the Chinese culture and developed soundly in China.” It further elaborates on the historical linkage between different Chinese Dynasties and Western regions, and emphasizes a lack of willing acceptance of Islam in the region. The paper concludes by emphasizing the resolute action taken against terrorism and violence to maintain social harmony and promote development in the region under the leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China with Xi Jinping as the core. It rejects all criticism of the Chinese government’s efforts in this regard.
- Description: The paper begins by emphasizing the inseparability Xinjiang from Chinese territory. It highlights the multiethnic nature of Xinjiang and emphasizes that “Islam is neither an indigenous nor the sole belief system of the Uyghur people. It has taken root in the Chinese culture and developed soundly in China.” It further elaborates on the historical linkage between different Chinese Dynasties and Western regions, and emphasizes a lack of willing acceptance of Islam in the region. The paper concludes by emphasizing the resolute action taken against terrorism and violence to maintain social harmony and promote development in the region under the leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China with Xi Jinping as the core. It rejects all criticism of the Chinese government’s efforts in this regard.
- Title: Historical Matters Concerning Xinjiang - An Overview
- Creator: Xinjiang Documentation Project
- Subject: State Historical Perspective on Xinjiang
- Language: English
- Item Type: Document
- Description: The paper begins by emphasizing the inseparability Xinjiang from Chinese territory. It highlights the multiethnic nature of Xinjiang and emphasizes that “Islam is neither an indigenous nor the sole belief system of the Uyghur people. It has taken root in the Chinese culture and developed soundly in China.” It further elaborates on the historical linkage between different Chinese Dynasties and Western regions, and emphasizes a lack of willing acceptance of Islam in the region. The paper concludes by emphasizing the resolute action taken against terrorism and violence to maintain social harmony and promote development in the region under the leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China with Xi Jinping as the core. It rejects all criticism of the Chinese government’s efforts in this regard.
- Description: The paper begins by emphasizing the inseparability Xinjiang from Chinese territory. It highlights the multiethnic nature of Xinjiang and emphasizes that “Islam is neither an indigenous nor the sole belief system of the Uyghur people. It has taken root in the Chinese culture and developed soundly in China.” It further elaborates on the historical linkage between different Chinese Dynasties and Western regions, and emphasizes a lack of willing acceptance of Islam in the region. The paper concludes by emphasizing the resolute action taken against terrorism and violence to maintain social harmony and promote development in the region under the leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China with Xi Jinping as the core. It rejects all criticism of the Chinese government’s efforts in this regard.
- Title: Historical Overview of Events Shaping the Politics of...
- Creator: Xinjiang Documentation Project
- Subject: History and Development of the Xinjiang
- Language: English
- Item Type: Document
- Description: This timeline gives an overview of major events in the 20th century that shaped the politic of Xinjiang.
- Description: This timeline gives an overview of major events in the 20th century that shaped the politic of Xinjiang.
- Title: Historical Witness to Ethnic Equality, Unity and Development...
- Creator: The State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China
- Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2015
- Subject: State Historical Perspective on Xinjiang
- Language: English
- Item Type: Document
- Description: This paper focuses on ethnic unity in Xinjiang and highlights the need to promote regional autonomy in regions with ethnic minorities and gives an overview of historical developments in the region. The overview begins from the Opium Wars (1840-1842) and goes over major events such as the enforcement of Measures for Exercising Ethnic Regional Autonomy, which initiated the process of establishment of an autonomous region in Xinjiang.
- Description: This paper focuses on ethnic unity in Xinjiang and highlights the need to promote regional autonomy in regions with ethnic minorities and gives an overview of historical developments in the region. The overview begins from the Opium Wars (1840-1842) and goes over major events such as the enforcement of Measures for Exercising Ethnic Regional Autonomy, which initiated the process of establishment of an autonomous region in Xinjiang.
- Title: Historical Witness to Ethnic Equality, Unity and Development...
- Creator: Xinjiang Documentation Project
- Subject: State Historical Perspective on Xinjiang
- Language: English
- Item Type: Document
- Description: This paper focuses on ethnic unity in Xinjiang and highlights the need to promote regional autonomy in regions with ethnic minorities and gives an overview of historical developments in the region. The overview begins from the Opium Wars (1840-1842) and goes over major events such as the enforcement of Measures for Exercising Ethnic Regional Autonomy, which initiated the process of establishment of an autonomous region in Xinjiang.
- Description: This paper focuses on ethnic unity in Xinjiang and highlights the need to promote regional autonomy in regions with ethnic minorities and gives an overview of historical developments in the region. The overview begins from the Opium Wars (1840-1842) and goes over major events such as the enforcement of Measures for Exercising Ethnic Regional Autonomy, which initiated the process of establishment of an autonomous region in Xinjiang.
