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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.
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    • 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: 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.
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    • 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.
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    • 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.