From New Lines Magazine A member of the persecuted Russian Mongol minority reveals the life he hopes to keep in the US, and the one
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A Hong Kong Marxist’s critique of China’s 2026 “Ethnic Unity Law” On July 1, 2026, the “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress” came into
A 2021 Ministry of Education directive – the Children’s Speech Harmonization plan – mandates the use of standard Mandarin Chinese for all preschool instruction and
A critical reflection on Phuntsok Wangyal and the rise and fall of the Tibetan Communist Party This essay by Tibetan-Canadian journalist and poet Kalden Dhatsenpa
This month, China’s National People’s Congress held its annual meeting and passed a new law on ‘promoting ethnic unity and progress’. The legislation further codifies
On a clear October morning in 2025, two massive cranes rolled up to a middle school in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Workers prised
From Literatur.Review The 14th of November this year marked the 50th anniversary of the illegal Madrid Accords, by which Spain transferred administrative control of its
In this interview, Ukrainian historian and activist Hanna Perekhoda looks back at some of the preconceptions and simplifications that, in Western Europe, shape discussion of
China’s ongoing policies in Tibet have long been criticized for undermining the region’s cultural, religious, and linguistic identity. A particularly alarming aspect of this strategy
Shannon Ward: Your book deals centrally with the biopolitics of language oppression, charting how techniques of governance institutionalize the elimination of Manegacha. In Chapter 6,
‘Northern frontier culture’ (北疆文化, umrat khiliin soyol) has recently become a trendy term in propaganda texts and academic publications in and about Inner Mongolia. Numerous
From Yurt Jurt: In this first episode, we introduce ourselves and the mission behind the Yurt Jurt. We’re here to explore why the term “post-Soviet”
‘Speak Mandarin!’ At a concert in Macau in the autumn of 2023, Cantopop superstar Eason Chan used an interlude to talk about his songwriting process.
For years, Russia’s ethnic minorities have been subject to an increasingly restrictive one-language policy. At the same time, they are being instrumentalised in the war
Modern China has inherited not only a large territory but also many ethnic groups from the Manchu Qing Empire it overthrew in 1912. How to
Soon after I arrived in Ürümchi in 2014 I met a young Uyghur man named Alim. He grew up in a small town near the