Self-Portrait in a detail of Yarmemet Niyaz’s 2013 painting “蓝色的旅律” A good while ago the anthropologist Stevan Harrell asked me to consider the unique position of Uyghurs as heirs to
Learning Chinese is a journey filled with both challenges and rewards. For Chinese learners, the initial hurdles include mastering the tonal nature of the language and understanding its complex characters.
Dandong has been under intermittent lockdown (“static management” in the municipal government’s preferred euphemism) since April 25 of this year. The northeast city bordering North Korea is but the latest