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...(The New Yorker) Jane Coaston puts important questions to polling expert David Byler, among them: should voters and readers trust polling?...
...One of my favourite novels of recent times is Perhat Tursun’s The Backstreets, translated into English in 2022 by Darren Byler and an anonymous co-translator who, according to publisher Columbia University...
...like it was a game for them,” one former detainee told Byler....
...Life in China’s high-tech penal colony Darren Byler’s field study of Xinjiang evokes the shadow of concentration camps — with the added cruelty of a 21st-century surveillance system....
...unwanted political backgrounds in the Maoist period are striking . . . except [this time] only members of particular minority ethnic groups are targeted for this extralegal form of forced labour,” said Darren Byler...
...Mr Byler said direct responsibility means officials probably will see the programme through, rather than order a rollback....
...[They] are understood to be on probation, where they could be sent back to a camp,” Mr Byler said....
...Li’s footage is bolstered by the analysis of experts in the region, such as Drs Rian Thum and Darren Byler, who bear witness to the planned eradication of Uyghur culture, very reminiscent of the Tibet experience...
...Mr Byler said “many Uighurs see land reclamation as a way of pulling them into [insecure] wage labour as contract workers”....
...“This is hard to prove but there is a widespread fear among Uighurs that this is what the data will ultimately be used for,” said Mr Byler....
...“The charges seem to stem from online or computer-based “private” data that contradict their public-facing stance as patriotic intellectuals,” said Darren Byler, an anthropologist at the University of Washington...
...“Measures of control have resulted in a feeling that southern Xinjiang has become an open-air prison,” says Darren Byler, an anthropologist at the University of Washington who has done extensive fieldwork...
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