Xinjiang has again become the pivot of China, Central
Asia, and even the world in this century in terms of political
significance and security arrangements in Central Asia. Scholars and
observers from surrounding countries and beyond have begun to invest
unprecedented efforts to illuminate the nature of historical and
contemporary events there.
However, due to various historical, linguistic,
political, and academic traditions and taboos, studies on Xinjiang are
highly fragmented and biased among ethnic and national lines. It is
well known that Uyghur scholars in China have little access, if not
freedom, to current Xinjiang discourses that have been dominated by Han
Chinese scholars. While Chinese scholars themselves, however, have
little presence and influence in English-language international academia
in the field. Dominant English scholarship on Xinjiang, on the other
hand, has often been censored and English-speaking scholars have even
been blocked from entering China (not to mention Xinjiang), as the
recent Xinjiang Project in the U.S. and many counter projects in China
indicate.
In short, academic inquiries into, and discourses on,
Xinjiang have been politicized, sentimentalized, and even
traumatized. Xinjiang Review is founded exactly in such context as a
platform for concerned Xinjiang scholars of various disciplines,
regions, and nationalities. It especially welcomes Uyghur and Han
scholars from Xinjiang and China proper to contribute insights and
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