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...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...
...Darren Byler, an anthropologist at the University of Washington, writes that he had these “continuities and ruptures” in mind when describing Xinjiang’s system of mass internment in his book, In the Camps...
...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....
...Byler, an anthropologist at the University of Washington who specialises in Xinjiang....
...“We now have very direct evidence that Xi Jinping was aware of what was happening and was kept closely informed by Chen Quanguo,” said Darren Byler, a Xinjiang researcher at the University of Colorado....
...The Xinjiang system was “charging people on the basis of arbitrary definitions that turn religious piety into violations”, said Darren Byler, an anthropologist at the University of Colorado....
...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...
...“Land reclamation and infrastructure projects that support reclamation, particularly Bingtuan projects, have led to increased Han settlement of traditional Uighur areas,” said Darren Byler, an anthropologist...
...The collection is fuelling concerns among Uighur residents that the DNA data will be used to match the organs of suspected criminals who may face execution with potential recipients, said Darren Byler, a...
...“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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