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September 30, 2005

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Happy birthday, Xinjiang and China

It's a happy 50th birthday to the Xinjiang Urgur Autonomous Region (motto: the autonomy you have when you're not really autonomous).

To celebrate the People's Daily discusses Prosperous, stable Xinjiang - a pleasant surprise to foreigners. It appears progress and happiness, in the words of fluent Chinese speaker and American student Pam Ariand, is a warm bun: "Hamburgers were never seen here several years ago, but now you can easily find outlets of Kentucky fried chicken, pizza and many other western foods in Xinjiang."

Martyn at TPD has an excellent potted history in just four paragaphs - Xinjiang 50th anniversary: occupation or liberation? Make sure you read the comments at that link as well to hear the opinion of those who have lived there.

While on anniversaries, a very happy 56th birthday to the New China. Follow the link to read the pain of a 7 year old girl's history lessons, numerous counts of foreign aggression and surprisingly little mention of the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and other weird political movements.

 posted by Simon on 09.30.05 at 06:36 PM in the China politics category.




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Comments:

When I was in Xin'jiang, the "Autonomous" part was definitely preceded by "military."

posted by: Curzon on 10.01.05 at 12:38 AM [permalink]

Simon,

I discovered this post in Google news search. But it says the source is "Jawa Report"?

 posted by: Letters from China on 10.01.05 at 08:02 PM [permalink]

That's because any post my friend and fellow mu.nu hosted blog My Pet Jawa links to gets indexed by Google News, but it appears under his blog's name. It's a quirk in Google News and that's why we love Rusty's linkage.

 posted by: Simon on 10.01.05 at 10:06 PM [permalink]




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