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:
- Agriculture Supply Chain
- Anti Terrorism Framework
- Assimilation
- Automotive Supply Chain
- Autonomy
- Becoming Family Campaign
- Beijing Olympics
- Belt and Road Initiative
- Biometrics
- Camp Construction
- Censorship
- Chen Quanguo
- China Cables
- Chinese Politics
- Chinese Responses
- Clothing Supply Chain
- Context
- Coronavirus
- Cotton Supply Chain
- Cultural Repression
- Cultural Revolution
- Deaths in custody
- Deportation
- Detention
- Disinformation
- Ethnic Policy
- Ethnic Relations
- Eyewitness Accounts
- Facial Recognition
- Family Separation
- Food Supply Chain
- Forced Labour
- Genocide Discussion
- Government Policy
- Han Migration
- History of China
- IJOP
- Ilham Tohti
- Influential Uyghurs Detained
- International Reactions
- International Relations
- Islam in China
- Karakax List
- Key Players
- Labour Transfers
- Leaked Documents
- Legislative Action
- Linked Organisations
- Ma Xingrui
- Mao Zedong
- Michelle Bachelet Visit
- Movement Restrictions
- Organ Harvesting
- Overview Reports
- Policing
- PVC Supply Chain
- Rahile Dawut
- Reeducation
- Reeducation Camps
- Reeducation Through Labour
- Reform Through Labour
- Religious Policy
- Religious Repression
- Renewables Supply Chain
- Reproductive Restrictions
- Sanctions
- Satellite Imagery
- Securitization
- Sexual Assault
- Sinicization
- Solar Energy Supply Chain
- Stability Maintenance
- Strike Hard Campaign
- Supply Chains
- Surveillance
- Technology Supply Chain
- Thought Reform
- Tibet
- Torture
- United Front Work Department
- Urumqi Fire
- Urumqi Riot
- Uyghur Culture
- Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act
- Uyghur Human Rights Protection Act
- Uyghur Policy Act
- Uyghur Tribunal
- Victim Accounts
- Victim Lists
- Violence in Xinjiang
- War on Terror
- Xi Jinping
- Xinjiang Aid
- Xinjiang Demographics
- Xinjiang History
- Xinjiang Papers
- Xinjiang Police Files
- Xinjiang Victims Database
- XPCC
- ABC News
- Adrian Zenz
- Agence France Presse
- Al Jazeera
- Amnesty International
- ANU Press
- AP News
- Asia Dialogue
- Asia Freedom Institute
- Asian Survey
- ASPI
- Atlantic Council
- Axios
- BBC
- BESA Center
- Bitter Winter
- Bloomberg
- Brill Publishers
- Brookings Institute
- Business Insider
- Buzzfeed News
- C4ADS
- Cambridge University Press
- Canbury Press
- CBC News
- Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting
- Central Asian Survey
- Chicago University Press
- China Change
- China Digital Times
- China File
- China Leadership Monitor
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders
- Chinese Media Project
- Citizen Truth
- CNN
- Coalition to End Uyghur Forced Labour
- Coda Story
- Columbia University Press
- Commonweal
- Congressional Executive Commission on China
- CSIS
- Der Spiegel
- Deutsche Welle
- Dutch Uyghur Human Rights Foundation
- E-International Relations
- East West Center
- Economic and Political Weekly
- Essex Court Chambers
- EU European External Action Service
- Fair Observer
- Fashion United
- Financial Times
- Forbes
- Foreign Affairs
- Foreign Affairs Committee
- Foreign Policy
- Fortune
- Freedom House
- Freedom United
- Getty
- Global Voices
- Government of Canada
- Harper Collins
- Harvard University Press
- Helena Kennedy Centre
- History Today
- Hong Kong Watch
- Hope Not Hate
- House of Commons
- House of Lords
- Human Rights Foundation
- Human Rights In China
- Human Rights Watch
- Hunter University
- i News
- ICIJ
- Informed Comment
- Inner Asia
- Insider
- International Service for Human Rights
- IPVM
- Irish Independent
- Jacobin
- Jamestown Foundation
- Japan Uyghur Association
- Jewish Museum
- Journal of Political Risk
- Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies
- Korea Times
- LA Times
- La Trobe University
- Lawfare
- Living Otherwise
- Loop Media
- Made in China Journal
- Manchester University Press
- Metro
- Middle East Monitor
- Milestone Journal
- Minority Rights Group
- Monacelli Press
- National Geographic
- NBC
- New Lines Magazine
- New Statesman
- New York Times
- New Yorker
- Newlines Institute
- Newsweek
- Nikkei
- NL Times
- NPR
- Open Democracy
- Open Secrets
- Pacific Standard
- Pen Opp
- Persuasion Magazine
- Politico
- Politics Home
- Quartz
- Radio Free Asia
- Radio Free Europe
- RAND Corporation
- Religion In Communist Lands
- Remake
- Reuters
- Routledge
- SBS World News
- Scribe Publications
- Shado Mag
- Shawn Zhang
- SOAS
- Society and Space
- Stanford FSI
- Steptoe
- Strategic Studies Institute
- Supchina
- Sustainable Brands
- Swiss Info
- Tech UK
- The Art Newspaper
- The Asan Forum
- The Asia Pacific Journal
- The Atlantic
- The Breakthrough Institute
- The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst
- The China Quarterly
- The Diplomat
- The Dispatch
- The Economist
- The Globe and Mail
- The Globe Post
- The Guardian
- The Independent
- The Intercept
- The Mail on Sunday
- The Rights Practice
- The Verge
- The Washington Post
- Tibetan Review
- Time
- Top10VPN
- Toronto Star
- Transnational Institute
- United Nations
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Nottingham Rights Lab
- University of Sheffield
- University of South Australia
- University of Washington
- US Customs and Border Protection
- USA Today
- Uyghur Forced Labor Database
- Uyghur Human Rights Project
- Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project
- Uyghur Transitional Justice Database
- Uyghur Tribunal
- Verso Books
- Vice News
- Voice of America
- Voices on Central Asia
- Vox
- War on the Rocks
- Wilson Center
- World Politics Review
- World Uyghur Congress
- Xinjiang Victims Database
- Yahoo News
- Yale University
US government, activists demand release of jailed 19-year-old Uyghur student
Kamile Wayit is serving jail time in Xinjiang for "advocating extremism", after she was detained for posting a video about protests relating to coronavirus restrictions in China.
Human Rights Watch’s World Report 2023: China and Tibet
This section of the annual report by Human Rights Watch reviewing human rights around the globe explores developments in China and Tibet over the course of 2022.
Renowned Uyghur poet dies following prison release in Xinjiang
A renowned Uyghur writer and poet in poor health when released from prison died on Dec. 18 because he could not obtain food or medical treatment amid a strict coronavirus lockdown, according to local information.
Event: The potential for solidarity in the Uyghur and Chinese diasporas
This event brings key thinkers and commentators from the Uyghur and Chinese diasporas to discuss the recent spate of protests across China and the potential for solidarity between these communities.
Uyghur man's agony after five relatives died in Urumqi fire
When a deadly fire broke out in China's northwest Xinjiang region, triggering a wave of public anger over the country's zero-Covid policy, it claimed the lives of five of one man’s relatives.
How China's Covid protests are being silenced
Following the deaths of ten people in a fire in Urumqi, an ever-growing list of words that reference the subsequent protests are being censored and attempts are being made to deflect the narrative on both various platforms.
The wave of protests testing China’s zero-Covid policy, explained
In cities across China, people are protesting Xi Jinping’s Covid policy — and even demanding his resignation.
Crowd angered by lockdowns calls for China’s Xi to step down
Protesters angered by strict anti-virus measures called for China’s powerful leader to resign, an unprecedented rebuke as authorities in at least eight cities struggled to suppress demonstrations.
Protests over China’s COVID controls spread across country
Protests against China’s pervasive anti-virus controls that have confined millions of people to their homes spread to other cities after complaints they might have worsened the death toll in an apartment fire in Xinjiang.
Deadly fire in Xinjiang prompts protests across China over strict COVID lockdowns
Authorities are told to 'strictly crack down on illegal and criminal acts' opposing the zero-COVID policy, Radio Free Asia reports.
10 killed in apartment fire in northwest China’s Xinjiang
A fire in an apartment building in China’s Xinjiang region killed 10 people and injured nine, authorities said Friday, amid stringent COVID-19 lockdowns keeping residents in their homes.
China Xinjiang: Urumqi rocked by Covid lockdown protests after deadly fire
Videos shared on social media in China have appeared to show fresh protests against Covid restrictions, after an apartment block fire killed 10 people.
Protest in Xinjiang Against Lockdown After Fire Kills 10
A fire in a residential high-rise in Urumqi, where many residents have been under lockdown, set off public anger and questions about China’s zero-Covid policy.
China Xinjiang: Ten dead in Urumqi residential block fire
Ten people have died in a fire in flats in the city of Urumqi, capital of the western Xinjiang region. The city has been under strict Covid restrictions since early August.
‘Malicious' anti-lockdown comments on live stream prompt Xinjiang police probe
Chinese authorities in Xinjiang are investigating after internet users "maliciously flooded" a live-streamed government press conference with comments critical of COVID-19 restrictions.
Xinjiang party secretary visits areas where COVID lockdown protests occurred
Xinjiang’s Communist Party secretary on Monday visited districts in the capital Urumqi in northwestern China where rare protests against severe coronavirus lockdown measures occurred last week.
Authorities in Xinjiang collect bodies of Uyghurs who died during COVID lockdown
Chinese authorities in Xinjiang arranged for the collection of bodies of Uyghur residents who died during a strict coronavirus lockdown, but did not allow their families to bury them in accordance with Uyghur customs and religious rituals.
Lack of Uyghur-language emergency services leads to more deaths in Xinjiang
Uyghur residents in a city in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region are suffering malnutrition and death despite the lifting of a coronavirus lockdown because of authorities’ failure to provide Uyghur language support for emergency services, locals said.
22 die of starvation in one day under COVID lockdown in Xinjiang’s Ghulja
At least 22 people died of starvation or lack of medical attention on a single day last week under China’s COVID lockdown policies in the northern Xinjiang city of Ghulja, RFA has confirmed with police and bereaved family members.
"We are Dying": Desperate Messages from Uyghurs Facing Starvation and Death Under Zero COVID Lockdowns
Members of the Uyghur diaspora around the world are stunned and heartbroken as they view dozens of messages expressing mounting desperation amid COVID-19 lockdowns.