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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It's been a long time since I've done a translation! This months is Saga Dawa--the holiest months in Buddhism. Yesterday marked the holiest day of the holiest month. This song introduces practices and beliefs of this auspicious occasion. Lots to learn from Tibetan music. youtu.be/uZFj7r-E_pY

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Saga Dawa་(ས་ག་ཟླ་བ།) by Dorje Tsering (རྡོ་རྗེ་ཚེ་རིང་། ཚ་བ་བརྟན་འཛིན།) and Tsawa Tenzin

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Strange this @pbs.org documentary on Muslim youth voices in the US used an anti-veiling poster from Xinjiang in its segment about proposed legislation in the States

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David Stroup @davidstroup.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Striking cover image (and title!) for @timothyagrose.bsky.social’s forthcoming book with @uwapress.uw.edu. The “Studies of Ethnic Groups In China” series (edited by none other than @steveharrell.bsky.social) continues to be a vital resource for scholars in the field! uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

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Settling Xinjiang

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

ehhh. @degruyterbrill.bsky.social, this wasn't what I had in mind when I suggested a special volume (which, I don't think ever happened) after your editor censored my introduction. Instead we get Sautman? A look at the bibliography reveals it isn't thorough or good-faith. brill.com/display/titl...

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Shipment from China just arrived!

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Turkish vlogger describes the mosque in Toyuq (تۇيۇق)

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

These plans do not contain explicit references to Uyghur culture, history, religion, or even Uyghurs as largest population of the city... i'm afraid the transformation of Kashgar has only begun

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Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org · 10/02/2026

Call for Applications: Luce/ACLS Collaborative Grant in China Studies, which offers a grant of up to $120,000 to design and implement initiatives over a period of 12-18 months. Letters of intent are due by March 31. www.acls.org/competitions/luce-acls…

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Stills of a Kashgar knife shop captured from a Vlog posted four months ago...

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Maybe just a moment of discouragement, but between @lauratmurphy.bsky.social censorship @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social, @manuginobili.bsky.social in Hangzhou for an NBA event, and booming tourism in XJ, it’s hard not to feel corporate interests win—and impossible to ignore the Uyghurs left behind

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Amazing World Peace Mandala timelapse created by RHIT Communication and Marketing's David Essex and Bryan Cantwell (uploaded and shared with their permission) youtu.be/E4sHiF3WQKs

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Mandala Time Lapse

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

A Chinese State Media broadcast that describes some of the Party's strategies to control Tibetan monasteries from within. youtu.be/2-h2Qm0Uhas

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Chinese State Media Report on Monastery Management in Tibet

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Not at all new, but a post last week from Kashgar shows that education officials are doubling down on Sinification in Uyghur majority schools. "说国家通用语言、写国家通用语言文字”已成为校园里的新风尚" Speaking and writing the national common language have become the campus' new trends"

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

trip down memory lane took me to footage from the Labrang Mosque...now almost ten years ago. youtu.be/cxv-YpWzEpA

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Salat at the Labrang Mosque

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

The Tashi Kyil monks are on break now, but tune in to see them put the finishing touches on the mandala and stay for its deconstruction www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9qw...

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Mandala last day

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I forget how it goes exactly, but there is a saying about surrounding yourself with people smarter than you. well, that's my strategy. humbled to be part of this team, honored to receive this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity from LUCE/ @acls1919.bsky.social and motivated to make this project special

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Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Big congratulations to @timothyagrose.bsky.social @drdavidtobin.bsky.social @emilyupson.bsky.social, who received a Luce/ACLS Collaborative Grant in China Studies for their project, "Un-Settling Xinjiang: Archiving, Digitizing and Curating Knowledge of Settler Colonial Violence in China and Beyond."

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Recent Fellows

Formed in 1919, ACLS is a nonprofit federation of 81 scholarly organizations. As the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, ACLS holds a core belief…

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I recorded this talk for a conference I attended virtually after tech difficulties prevented the audience from seeing the slides. The images are pretty powerful. Although not professionally edited, I hate to think that it was just collecting digital dust in my hard drive. youtu.be/7YyA3nUwh9k

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"'#Uyghurs are #uyghurs they aren't Muslims'" (talk on religious restrictions and secularization)

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Happy when vloggers unwittingly post evidence of state violence in the region. This poster is from the fanghuiju (sometimes called "becoming family--long story) campaign. As shown, each family is designated as either "regular" (true here) "trustworthy" or "untrustworthy..."

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

A combination of certificates for having fewer children, a one time 6000rmb subsidy with 150 yuan given each month “long-term” birth control measures are used, and bonus points for children on entrance exams saw new births in this rural Uyghur village drop over 50% in 4 years

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

All these Ramadan--and now Eid--posts about the "freeness" of religious expression in Xinjiang by folks, some dressing up like they're some sort of sultan... For reference, here are some of the rituals, practices, and celebrations of the sacred month before authorities tightened restrictions.

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

So lemme get this straight. Move to XJ on a whim while finishing a PhD. “Out of nowhere” met someone who knows Senuber Tursun who then agrees to teach you dutur. Well regardless how it panned out, I hope he asks her about the trouble she found herself in for “endangering state security” @shahit.biz

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

we should all just stay off Twitter--the dull stupidity. the post says, "Ramadan in Xinjiang--blah blah--can we celebrate". Well this is Eid--Ramadan is over. the police say, yeah you can dance and do a lot of things... no mention of fasting. why are you dressed like that, bruh?

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Xinjiang Victims Database @shahit.biz · 08/03/2025

Adding the transcription/translation of phone calls from Radio Free Asia Uyghur that confirmed the detention of young linguistics scholar Nebijan Hebibulla (shahit.biz/eng/1544/). He was detained in February 2018, while a professor at Xinjiang University, and given 15 years.

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Thrilled and honored to be part of this year’s cohort of Wilson Fellows! I hope my project about how low level cadres in the Uyghur homeland blog about their work will demonstrate the seriousness of the crisis to a much broader audience www.wilsoncenter.org/article/wils...

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Wilson Center Announces 2025-26 Wilson China Fellowship Class

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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

What's been happening in the Uyghur region? it's still dire: 500k-1m detained in prisons and new kanshousuo; assimilating institutionalization of non-Han young, old in boarding schools, nursing homes while working age non-Han pushed to distant forced labor. New report: www.ushmm.org/genocide-pre...

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Eight Years On, China’s Repression of the Uyghurs Remains Dire - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The report seeks to improve our collective understanding of China’s ongoing repressive policies in the predominantly Uyghur province of Xinjiang in western China. It finds that, given the available in...

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Marco Rubio's expression is priceless...

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Losar (Tibetan New Year) is upon us. I've translated several songs over the years that celebrate this auspicious day (some captions require turning on CC) www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Losar (Tibetan New Year) - YouTube

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

eerie...and, most importantly, tragic. "last seen near Kashgar"

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

This *may* be the flight could contain the 48 Uyghurs held in a Thai detention center. It is eerie that, unlike almost every other flight on the site, there is not arrival city. Looks to be flying close to Kashgar

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Few people know about the "Everbody is Gone" database, but it hosts dozens of essential documents about the crisis in the Uyghur and Kazakh homelands. really proud of the contributions I made to this project. www.everybodyisgone.org/database/

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Database

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Yep… the state of higher education under this administration

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I shared some thoughts about developing methods for digital/remote ethnography at a time when few have access to regions such as the Uyghur homeland and Tibet. open.spotify.com/episode/4MXW...

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Digital ethnography of the Uyghur region

The Remote Chay Podcast · Episode

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

After two years of work, this little guy is editor stamped and off to peer review! may your journey be swift and pleasant! 一路平安 ئاق يول بولسۇن ཕེབས་ལམ་དཀར་པོ།

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Don’t know the full extent of the TikTok douyin ban, but I’m going to go out on a limb to say that douyin has been really helpful finding small details of oppression in the Uyghur homeland. It will be a shame if that window is completely closed.

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Do universities in Xinjiang still offer non-degree Uyghur language courses? I know most had suspended their programs. Have any resumed?

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

need help finding a pdf of this article: 汉译维的词语标准化和民族化 (作者：刘珉出版物刊名：民族语文)

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

How one Uyghur obtained his passport. Important: he is in Ili. Typically, policies in northern Xinjiang are more lax than in the south. still had to go to the local police station to start the process. He also mentions that other locales have their own requirements. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1l7...

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Passport experiences from a Uyghur

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

There’s at least one person on earth who still wishes it were 2024. His name is Parker Jones

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Wanna buy a kitchen knife in Xinjiang? get your ID card, mosey on over to the local police station, fill out a form to explain why you would ever need a kitchen knife, then (if approved) take your permit to a designated knife vender

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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Christmas: Childhood vs Adulthood childhood--Christmas Day couldn't come soon enough; adulthood--Christmas comes too quickly and the season (i.e., up through Jan 6!) ends too soon (image taken two weeks ago in Granada, Spain)

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