CDT Weekly, February 12-18: Ilham Tohti, Xinjiang, and Why Clubhouse Had to Die
Posted by Samuel Wade | Feb 18, 2021
Welcome to the second edition of CDT’s weekly roundup, also available as an email newsletter through Substack. With these updates, we aim to provide an overview of new content across CDT’s English and Chinese sites, as well as the bilingual China Digital Space wiki, and related content elsewhere.
The highlight of our translation content this week was a long essay from 2009 by journalist and website founder Huang Zhangjin, describing his
Some of the views attributed to Ilham in Huang’s paraphrased recollections may be unpalatable: he approvingly quotes Liu Xiaobo’s views on the benefits of Western colonialism, and implicitly disparages the industriousness of people from other developing regions. But the essay clearly conveys Ilham’s vision of an alternative path for Xinjiang within the People’s Republic, far from the aggressive suppression that has inte