@rianthum.bsky.social
Historian of Uyghurs, Hui, and Muslims in China at the U of Manchester.
What’s the ideal age for the state to impose assimilation on minorities? In Tibet, it’s 4.
Gift link to new long read from me and Niharika Mandhana Beijing's building of government-run preschools across Tibetan areas to reverse generations of opposition to party rule:
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Same racist authoritarian data collection they've been doing in Xinjiang for years. Fight it everywhere
10.06.2025 11:36 — 👍 31 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 0
This is an official plan for ethnic cleansing. If you supported Israel for the past 18 months or so under the assumption that this was about the hostages you were taken for a ride.
If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.
This summer, June 7-August 7, I'll be running an online course in "Introduction to Chaghatay!" 12 meetings. $280 for the whole thing. Open access textbook + videos to walk you through grammar and readings. Fees will support GW's Uyghur Studies Initiative. Apply here!
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Radio Free Asia was the 1st to reveal China's mass detention of Uyghurs & kept the world informed about the crimes against humanity there. 🇨🇳 tried silencing RFA by imprisoning families of Uyghur RFA journos; now 🇺🇸 poised to help 🇨🇳 finish that job. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
17.03.2025 14:39 — 👍 72 🔁 39 💬 3 📌 0
This is a test for Columbia and the universities in general. They must oppose this with collective loud voices and legal aid to Khalil, who is targeted for specific speech while a student.
BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Advocates Say zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...
I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:
26.02.2025 03:26 — 👍 4828 🔁 1441 💬 70 📌 73
🆘🆘🆘Govt of #Thailand appears to be on the brink of quadrupling-down on a decade of appalling violations of #Uyghur #refugee rights. Forcing them back to #China = forcing them back to horrific abuses. Demys need to win out over Beijing—urgently. www.jurist.org/news/2025/01...
19.01.2025 13:01 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Difficult to write or talk about this monstrous act by the Chinese state, one of countless atrocities against Uyghurs. Absurd cruelty toward a kind, brilliant, and community-oriented anthropologist. duihua.org/life-sentenc...
23.09.2023 12:15 — 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Devastating news that scholar Rahile Dawut is serving a life sentence in China. Her crime was culture: she is an ethnographer of Uyghur folklore traditions. This is the petty fear of the supposedly mighty state of China. duihua.org/life-sentenc...
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