Xinjiang
Xinjiang ({{zh-cpw |c=?? |p=X?nji?ng |w=Hsin1-chiang1}}; Postal Pinyin: Sinkiang; literal meaning: "New Frontier"; Uyghur: {{IPA|??????}}), full name Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Xinjiang borders the Tibet Autonomous Region to the south and Qinghai and Gansu provinces to the southeast. It also borders Mongolia to the east, Russia to the north, as well as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and the Pakistan- and India-controlled parts of Kashmir to the west. Xinjiang includes most of Aksai Chin, a region claimed by India as part of its state of Jammu and Kashmir.
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"Xinjiang" literally means "New Frontier", a name given during the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China. The name is considered offensive by many advocates of independence, who prefer to use historical or ethnic names such as Chinese Turkestan, East Turkestan (with Turkestan sometimes spelled as Turkistan) or Uyghuristan. Because of the association of these names with the independence movement, they are in turn considered offensive by the PRC government and many local Han Chinese residents.
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Manchu - Qing Dynasty - Turkestan - East Turkestan - PRC - Han Chinese
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Latest news on xinjiang
China: Mummies and the fight for Uighur sovereignty
A fascinating piece by Ed Wong in today's NYT on the role archaeology -- specifically, a set of mummified human remains -- plays in the conflict over independence for one of China's ethnic minorities. Snip: ?Xinjiang has been an inalienable part of the territory of China,? says one prominent sign. But walk upstairs to the second floor, and the ancient corpses on display seem to tell a different story. One called the Loulan Beauty lies on her back with her shoulder-length hair matted down, her lips pursed in death, her high cheekbones and long nose the most obvious signs that she is not what one thinks of as Chinese. The Loulan Beauty is one of more than 200 remarkably well-preserved mummies discovered in the western deserts here over the last few decades. The ancient bodies have become protagonists in a very contemporary political dispute over who should control the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. The Chinese authorities here face an intermittent separatist movement of nationalist Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim people who number nine million in Xinjiang. At the heart of the matter lie these questions: Who first settled this inhospitable part of western China? And for how long has the oil-rich region been part of the Chinese empire? The Dead Tell a Tale China Doesn?t Care to Listen To (NYT)...
A baseball team bridges ethnic animosities in rural China
Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese come together at a local university in the restless region of Xinjiang to surmount poor equipment ? and decades of enmity.
Post-Olympic Clamp on Muslim Xinjiang Possible
Crackdown feared in China's Xinjiang province once Olympics are done
'No questions'
Seeking answers in China's violence-hit Xinjiang region
Bombing Spree Reveals Divided China
Bombing spree exposes ethnic divisions in China's western Xinjiang region.
Violence taints the Beijing Games
Saturday's attack on American tourists, and continued unrest in Xinjiang, have tested the trouble-free Olympics Chinese officials sought.
Deadly violence hits west China
Seven militants and a security guard are killed after a series of bombings in China's north-western region of Xinjiang, state media says.
Chinese police shoot Uighurs dead
Chinese police shoot dead five alleged Uighur separatists in a raid in Xinjiang, the state news agency reports.
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