All Reading

This section contains a curated list of useful articles, investigations, books and other reading materials. The list is updated on a weekly basis and suggestions for additions are welcome.

Starting Points:

Eyewitness Accounts

Overview Reports

Lists / Databases of Victims

Satellite Imagery of Camps, Prisons & Cultural Destruction

Lina K 10/11/2023 Lina K 10/11/2023

Matchmaking App Raises Concerns of Han-Uyghur Assimilation

Experts say the government-backed project is part of Beijing’s assimilation strategy.

Lina K 03/09/2023 Lina K 03/09/2023

China bans book about the early history of the Mongolian people

The move comes after President Xi Jinping called for renewed efforts to boost a sense of Chinese national identity in a visit to the northwestern region of Xinjiang.

Lina K 16/11/2022 Lina K 16/11/2022

Forced Marriage of Uyghur Women: State Policies for Interethnic Marriage

This report examines the state-sponsored campaign of forcefully assimilating Uyghurs through coerced inter-ethnic marriages between Han men and Uyghur women.

Lina K 19/07/2022 Lina K 19/07/2022

Xi Jinping’s Xinjiang visit may signal new emphasis on the assimilation of Uyghurs

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Xinjiang signals a new emphasis on the assimilation of the Uyghurs, analysts said.

Lina K 10/07/2022 Lina K 10/07/2022

Who are the Uyghurs? Genocide, forced labour and endless Chinese atrocities; Dolkun Isa interview

Dolkun Isa, president of the World Uyghur Congress, discusses the history of Chinese repression in Xinjiang and his lived experiences of the system of forced assimilation, the silencing of influential Uyghur figures and China’s mass detention of Uyghurs.

Lina K 24/03/2022 Lina K 24/03/2022

Unpacking the Crisis in Xinjiang: James Millward on China's Assimilationist Policies and U.S.-China Engagement

James Millward discusses PRC ethnicity policy, China's crackdown on Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in Xinjiang province, and the implications of the Xinjiang crisis for U.S. China strategy and China's international relations.

Lina K 04/02/2022 Lina K 04/02/2022

The Crisis in Xinjiang: What’s Happening Now and What Does it Mean?

Policies implemented by the CCP in Xinjiang since 2016 have become a central issue in PRC international relations. This talk reviews the Xinjiang crisis to date and suggests how we should understand these events and trends.

Lina K 25/10/2018 Lina K 25/10/2018

Opinion: China Locks Up Ethnic Minorities in Camps. It Says So Itself.

In recent weeks, the Xinjiang People’s Congress passed legislation that for the first time provides an explicit basis for the “transformation” of people influenced by “extremism” in “education institutions”.

Lina K 09/07/2009 Lina K 09/07/2009

Behind the Violence in Xinjiang

The eruption of ethnic violence in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, the most deadly recorded in decades, seems to have taken both Beijing and the world by surprise. It should not have.