Ethnic ChinaLit

Guldana Salimjan, a Kazakh born and raised in China, reviews the popular Chinese TV mini-series “To the Wonder,” (我的阿尔泰) literally “My Altai,” inspired by Li Juan’s writing: T...

https://bruce-humes.com/2024/07/28/the-dream-of-han-innocence-nomad-sedentarization-of-xinjiangs-kazakhs/

In China has renamed hundreds of Uyghur villages and towns, we learn of the latest policy in the campaign to make Xinjiang look and feel like mainstream, Han-dominated China: Hundreds of Uyghur v...

https://bruce-humes.com/2024/06/20/rectification-of-names-uyghur-towns-chinese-names/

In Letter from Tainan, I speak with China hand Thomas Bird — author of the newly published Harmony Express — about today’s Tainan, and mainlander-dominated Taipei back in 1978 when I had ju...

https://bruce-humes.com/2024/06/20/profile-literary-translator-bruce-humes-in-tainan/

Reporting on new Chinese-language literature by and about non-Han peoples of China

https://bruce-humes.com/2024/06/04/banner-of-the-week-show-us-some-humanity/

In ‘Nikah’: An astonishing portrait of Uyghur life on the edge of erasure, Darren Byler introduces a film about a traditional Uyghur wedding rite that has been banned in Xinjiang:  The story...

https://bruce-humes.com/2024/05/30/movie-review-the-nikah-uyghur-wedding-rite/

In A Disappearance in Xinjiang, Financial Times‘ Edward White profiles Uyghur female ethnographer Rahile Dawut, who disappeared into China’s Xinjiang Gulag in 2017: Rahile’s life was devot...

https://bruce-humes.com/2024/04/27/disappeared-in-xinjiang-uyghur-ethnographer-rahile-dawut/

Once you’re Chinese, you’re always Chinese. They put a mark on you . . . And I don’t want to be owned. (Writer Yiyun Li, speaking in Mother Tongues at China Books Review)

https://bruce-humes.com/2024/03/22/quote-of-the-week-yiyun-li/

The story of Fan Jinshi (樊锦诗), female graduate of New China’s first four-year program in archaeology, who went on to spend 50-plus years in the desert overseeing the study, restoration an...

https://bruce-humes.com/2024/03/17/newly-published-memoir-of-fan-jinshi-pioneering-buddhist-grotto-archaeologist/

At the turn of 21st century, three young female Chinese novelists were busy boldly writing about their sexuality, orgasms and all, and being lambasted for it by the critics and Chinese society at...

https://bruce-humes.com/2024/03/05/shanghai-babys-translator-author-wei-hui-and-abu-ghraib/

By H K Chang Translated by Bruce Humes in collaboration with the author Now available for purchase online   Miniature Painting Guide: My Name Is Red In the summer of 2003, I accidentally came in...

https://bruce-humes.com/2024/01/28/excerpt-from-mapping-civilizations-across-eurasia-2/