Author: |Posted: 11:59 am on 07/07/09
Category: World News Blog
The sign outside Beijing’s famous attraction used to draw a lot of attention from tourists: it read “Racist Park.”
Just before the Olympics last year, the authorities realised that their English translation might be a bit problematic, so they changed it to “Chinese Ethnic Culture Park.” The theme park is supposed to showcase the cultural diversity of the People’s Republic, but some of the Uighurs, Tibetans and 54 other ethnic minorities in China might think the original wording revealed some truth about the attitude of the authorities. read more
Author: |Posted: 12:03 pm on 06/07/09
Category: World News Blog
It’s been brewing for nearly two weeks. The violence in Urumqi, the capital of China’s Xinjiang province, seems to have been provoked by an incident in Guangdong in southern China on 26 June.
A group of Uighurs, Muslims from Xinjiang, were working in a factory alongside Han Chinese. There’s a lot of prejudice against the Uighurs, who are often accused of being thieves.
