The young Uyghur filmmaker Ikram Nurmehmet is now in a Chinese prison for “actively participating in terrorist activities.” He was likely targeted because he had studied in Turkey between 2010 and 2016. It is always difficult for what China calls “ethnic minority” (i.e. non-Han Chinese) filmmakers to make the films they want to make inside China, where review by the state Film

How China is using the US-led war on terror to erase the cultural identity of its Muslim minority in the Xinjiang region

This is an application form for the not-for-credit summer course in introductory Chaghatay language to be held through the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University in Summer ...

Orville Schell sees obvious and troubling parallels between the US president and Mao Zedong.

<div> <div> <div> <p><span>This report lays out a comprehensive survey of the impacts of the Sinicisation of Islam programme on Hui communities from 2017

Join Dr. Don Wyatt, scholar on the intellectual history of China, to discuss the possibility of an African presence in Early Modern China.

Research on the modern history of Xinjiang has undergone a steady expansion in recent years. Owing to the sustained contributions of researchers ever since the publication in 1986 of Andrew Forbes's s...

PEN America has condemned New College of Florida’s destruction of a student-run library of books on gender, part of the College’s abrupt closure of the student-led gender and diversity center on Thurs...

The George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs (ESIA) is one of the world’s leading schools of international affairs and one of the largest schools of international affairs i...

Giving Day is April 3-4! Raise High and support what matters most to you at GW.

A series of policy-oriented talks on the ethnically diverse and highly contested regions along China’s geographical edges, this year’s seminar focuses around key transformations taking place in China ...

A series of policy-oriented talks on the ethnically diverse and highly contested regions along China’s geographical edges, this year’s seminar focuses around key transformations taking place in Ch...

A series of policy-oriented talks on the ethnically diverse and highly contested regions along China’s geographical edges, this year’s seminar focuses around key transformations taking place in Ch...

The United States is facing a critical shortage in China expertise.

Imagined meritocracies mean little to extractive institutions.

Tarim Talks is back! Host Babur Ilchi sits down with Dr. Eric Schluessel, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at the George Washington U...

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An Elliott School Book Launch Series, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, and Central Asian Program event featuring translator: Dr. Eric Schluessel, Associate Professor of History and International Affair...

On 31 January 2020 in the midst of the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China the city’s Party Secretary, Ma Guoqiang admitted in a televised interview to feeling “guilty and remorseful,” about th...

In January 2018, China sentenced writer, critic and educator Yalqun Rozi to 15 years in prison for ‘splittism’ and ‘extremist ideas.’