#Ürümqi

[100-art]

Xiamen One of the Most Beautiful Cities in China Poster Print

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

the other day i was thinking about how i would want to travel the world when i have money of my own but that long flights sound like a nightmare (my longest flight ever was like 3 hours i think) so i came up with this fun game in which i looked up how much it would take me to circumnavigate the world using exlusively short flights.

so, that's what i did. first of all, rules and disclaimers:

-all flights have to be around 3 hours long (so no longer than 4 hours).

-they also have to be direct flights

-i more or less counted travel time between connections to make it as realistic as possible, tho with the final schedule i would barely get some rest and it would be cool to visit some of the cities i'd fly to so in an ideal world where this would be feasable, i'd make it longer and with more time to sleep and do tourism i think.

-despite trying to follow everything, unfortunately i didn't take into account how freaking large oceans are, so the flights in the pacific and the atlantic will unfortunately be over 4 hours long. i tried looking for the shortest flights tho, so they're not ridiculously long either.

anyways, the schedule i would follow is below the cut:

in total, i would have to take 18 planes in 10 days:

madrid (MAD) - athens (ATH): 3 hours 25 minutes, Aegean Airlines, 12:40-17:05.

athens (ATH) - tbilisi (TBS): 2 hours 40 minutes, Aegean Airlines, 00:10-03:50.

tbilisi (TBS) - almaty (ALA): 3 hours 35 minutes, Air Astana, 22:20-02:55.

almaty (ALA) - delhi (DEL): 3 hours 25 minutes, Air Astana, 10:05-14:00.

delhi (DEL) - dhaka (DAC): 2 hours 25 minutes, Air India, 17:05-20:00.

dhaka (DAC) - kuala lumpur (KUL): 3 hours 55 minutes, Batik Air Malaysia, 23:00-04:55

kuala lumpur (KUL) - brunei (BWN): 2 hours 30 minutes, Royal Brunei, 12:10-14:35

brunei (BWN) - manila (MNL): 2 hours 15 minutes, Royal Brunei, 11:55 - 14:10

manila (MNL) - guam (GUM): 3 hours 55 minutes, United Airlines, 22:25-04:20

guam (GUM) - pohnpei (PNI): 2 hours 30 minutes, United Airlines, 20:25-23:55

pohnpei (PNI) - majuro (MAJ): 2 hours 10 minutes, United Airlines, 15:20-18:30

majuro (MAJ) - honolulu (HNL): 4 hours 40 minutes, United Airlines, 19:30-02:10

honolulu (HNL) - san francisco (SFO): 5 hours 01 minutes, United Airlines, 07:00-15:01

san francisco (SFO) - dallas (DFW): 3 hours 35 minutes, American Airlines, 17:00-22:35

dallas (DFW) - new york city (LGA): 3 hours 35 minutes, Spirit Airlines, 05:33-10:08

new york city (JFK) - reykjavik (KEF): 5 hours 35 minutes, Iceland Air, 13:00-22:35

reykjavik (KEF) - paris (CDG): 3 hours 25 minutes, Iceland Air, 00:45-06:10

paris (CDG) - madrid (MAD): 2 hours 10 minutes, Iberia, 12:40-14:50

[quotesfrommyreading]

The ideas driving the mass detentions can be traced back to Xi Jinping’s first and only visit to Xinjiang as China’s leader, a tour shadowed by violence.

In 2014, little more than a year after becoming president, he spent four days in the region, and on the last day of the trip, two Uighur militants staged a suicide bombing outside a train station in Urumqi that injured nearly 80 people, one fatally.

Weeks earlier, militants with knives had gone on a rampage at another railway station, in southwest China, killing 31 people and injuring more than 140. And less than a month after Mr. Xi’s visit, assailants tossed explosives into a vegetable market in Urumqi, wounding 94 people and killing at least 39.

Against this backdrop of bloodshed, Mr. Xi delivered a series of secret speeches setting the hard-line course that culminated in the security offensive now underway in Xinjiang. While state media have alluded to these speeches, none were made public.

The text of four of them, though, were among the leaked documents — and they provide a rare, unfiltered look at the origins of the crackdown and the beliefs of the man who set it in motion.

“The methods that our comrades have at hand are too primitive,” Mr. Xi said in one talk, after inspecting a counterterrorism police squad in Urumqi. “None of these weapons is any answer for their big machete blades, ax heads and cold steel weapons.”

“We must be as harsh as them,” he added, “and show absolutely no mercy.”

In free-flowing monologues in Xinjiang and at a subsequent leadership conference on Xinjiang policy in Beijing, Mr. Xi is recorded thinking through what he called a crucial national security issue and laying out his ideas for a “people’s war” in the region.

Although he did not order mass detentions in these speeches, he called on the party to unleash the tools of “dictatorship” to eradicate radical Islam in Xinjiang.

Mr. Xi displayed a fixation with the issue that seemed to go well beyond his public remarks on the subject. He likened Islamic extremism alternately to a virus-like contagion and a dangerously addictive drug, and declared that addressing it would require “a period of painful, interventionary treatment.”

“The psychological impact of extremist religious thought on people must never be underestimated,” Mr. Xi told officials in Urumqi on April 30, 2014, the final day of his trip to Xinjiang. “People who are captured by religious extremism — male or female, old or young — have their consciences destroyed, lose their humanity and murder without blinking an eye.”

In another speech, at the leadership conclave in Beijing a month later, he warned of “the toxicity of religious extremism.”

“As soon as you believe in it,” he said, “it’s like taking a drug, and you lose your sense, go crazy and will do anything.”

In several surprising passages, given the crackdown that followed, Mr. Xi also told officials to not discriminate against Uighurs and to respect their right to worship. He warned against overreacting to natural friction between Uighurs and Han Chinese, the nation’s dominant ethnic group, and rejected proposals to try to eliminate Islam entirely in China.

“In light of separatist and terrorist forces under the banner of Islam, some people have argued that Islam should be restricted or even eradicated,” he said during the Beijing conference. He called that view “biased, even wrong.”

But Mr. Xi’s main point was unmistakable: He was leading the party in a sharp turn toward greater repression in Xinjiang.

Before Mr. Xi, the party had often described attacks in Xinjiang as the work of a few fanatics inspired and orchestrated by shadowy separatist groups abroad. But Mr. Xi argued that Islamic extremism had taken root across swaths of Uighur society.

In fact, the vast majority of Uighurs adhere to moderate traditions, though some began embracing more conservative and more public religious practices in the 1990s, despite state controls on Islam. Mr. Xi’s remarks suggest he was alarmed by the revival of public piety. He blamed lax controls on religion, suggesting that his predecessors had let down their guard.

While previous Chinese leaders emphasized economic development to stifle unrest in Xinjiang, Mr. Xi said that was not enough. He demanded an ideological cure, an effort to rewire the thinking of the region’s Muslim minorities.

“The weapons of the people’s democratic dictatorship must be wielded without any hesitation or wavering,” Mr. Xi told the leadership conference on Xinjiang policy, which convened six days after the deadly attack on the vegetable market.

  —  ‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims

[zvaigzdelasas]

China has just connected what it believes to be the world’s biggest solar power plant to the grid in northwestern Xinjiang. The plant covers an area of 200,000 acres and is reported to have an output of 6.09 billion kWh annually.

The new plant is in the deserts near the region’s capital Ürümqi. The site came online this Monday (June 3) and is being run by the Chinese state-owned Power Construction Corporation, according to Reuters.

To put its enormous output into perspective, its designed output would provide enough power for the entire population of Papua New Guinea for an entire year. It is also more-or-less enough to power Luxembourg for a year too.

4 Jun 24

[safije]

Kurban Tulum (قۇربان تۇلۇم) (1883-1975) an Uyghur peasant who worked as a seasonal labourer for Uyghur landlords. During the land reforms of 1952, Kurban received land and various other properties. He is said to have visited Ürümqi, the capital of Xinjiang, by riding a donkey, to show his appreciation for the People's Liberation Army.

The government of the People's Republic of China promotes him as a symbol of unity between the Uyghurs and Han Chinese. A song named "Where Are You Going, Uncle Kurban?" (库尔班大叔您去哪儿?) and a film titled Uncle Kurban Visits Beijing (库尔班大叔上北京) were produced in 2002. Monuments of Kurban's handshake with Mao stand in the town centres of Keriya and Hotan (Tuanjie Square).

[darkmatterblade]

please read this!! this is a true story based on testimony and interviews with Zumrat Dawut who was one of the many Uyghur people arrested and sent to a detention facility where they face terrible living conditions and abuse.

content warnings for blood, medical abuse, forced sterilisation, islamophobia, suicide attempt, self harm, ethnic cleansing.

[traineecryptid]

NPSS Weibo Q&A (20240831) Part 8

This is a Q&A session held on Weibo. People will tag their questions with the hashtag #南派三叔藏海花在线答疑# (#NPSS Zang Hai Hua Online Q&A#) and NPSS will look through the tag to pick some to answer. The event started at 1500 hours on 2024 August 31st.

Folder with screenshots and big compilation google doc is here. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here. Part 4 is here. Part 5 is here. Part 6 is here. Part 7 is here.

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Why do people say that Tianshou is angsty? #Web Drama Zang Hai Hua# #NPSS explains Tianshou# [Video] 

1508

Q: I want to know if there are two forces of Tianshou, both good and bad sides respectively: Gate guarding Tianshou (good) and Lu God's Tianshou (bad). 

A: You're a little smart.

1509

Q: Shu, if little Zhang Qiling was in a tomb one second and transmigrated into his Yucun self the next second with his feet in the same foot bath as Wu Xie’s, what would his first sentence be?

A: A demon!

1510

Q: I will watch Zang Hai Hua for you… Don’t stop answering, okay…

A: I’m still persevering.

1511

Q: A-Bing, did you know that Zang Hai Hua will stop updating for 3 days? Do you still want your Heat Index or not! (T/N: Heat Index is the ranking/ trending-ness of a drama.)

A: I’m not the boss. It’s not my decision to make!

1537

Q: Hello, Xu-laoshi. Since you said that you won’t be writing “Yucun Biji” anymore (If there’s going to be 9 more Yucun Biji published, then you don’t have to read this post because Yucun Biji is my favorite out of the entire series), can I beg you for an Altay Biji? I wish to see the Iron Triangle’s nomadic life: Menyouping riding a motorcycle to Ürümqi to buy stuff (could also go from a summer ranch to some village). Wu Xie would be in charge of raising cats and dogs and chickens and goats and cows. Pangzi would be in charge of steaming lamb and barbecuing lamb chop. When they don’t want to herd the animals anymore, they can plant sunflowers. Wu Xie can use his architectural talents and build underground houses and learn a few Kazakh words…  

A: I’ve been to Altay. The life there is like the original series and not Yucun.

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Q: Laoshi, Sir, Genius Writer, do you know how amazing the Flowery Night you wrote is? How did you do it? Are you Team Experience or Team Imagination? Has a beautiful god descended in the middle of the night and kissed the keyboard you wrote Flowery Night on?

A: Those who understand Flowery Night are experts.

1553 Q: I just took a nap and Shu got online. With the drama updates on hold for three days, will you chat with us for three days?

A: On and off, I guess. I’m deathly busy. I want to cry.

1554

Q: Sanshu, Sanshu, what is the one thing that Xie Yuchen and Hei Xiazi did that angered the other the most? Please tell me.

A: That would be enough for ten books.

1858

Q: Would there be one day where the Iron Triangle gets poisoned after eating some unknown mushrooms?

A: It would if Xiaoge isn’t around.

1858

Q: Shu, would there be updates for Queen’s Banquet? Approximately when would the updates start? Wu Xie is about to go moldy being stuck in that hole.

A: Soon. I need to pick a good desk.

1900

Q: Sanshu, Sanshu, does Wu Xie have any children appropriate de-stressing methods? The kind that can be broadcasted.

A: Standing in the rain?

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Q: The cat didn’t survive but if the cat did survive, would Xiaohua keep it? Or would he give it to Xiazi to raise?

A: Xiaohua wouldn’t interfere with the cat’s karma.

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Q: Shu, I really went to Louwailou to eat their West Lake Vinegar Fish during 817. The taste was unforgettable… The restaurant was full of Daomis. Do you have anything you would like to say to the Daomis who have been violently beaten up by the Vinegar Fish?

A: I’ve heard that every fish that was made into a Vinegar Fish has died in vain?

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Q: No updates for three days, you could say that this is a version of Three Days in Silence.

A: You sure know how to meme…

and here's part two if today's double update! we've caught up to 3rd September now! hooray! and this is 120 posts (less than 120 questions)... theres... an amount to go... but! whittling! making progress! yay!

[archaeologicalnews]

Bronze Age ice skates with bone blades discovered in China

Archaeologists in China have unearthed 3,500-year-old ice skates crafted from animal bone in the  country's western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, a mountainous area that some archaeologists think was the birthplace of skiing.

These ice skates, the oldest ever found in China,  were made from the bones of oxen and horses, according to a translated statement. They were found in a tomb in the Gaotai Ruins, about 240 miles (385 kilometers) west of the regional capital Ürümqi, archaeologists with the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous regional government said at a news event on Feb. 27.

It's not known if the skates were used for hunting or for regular travel. They consist of a straight piece of bone with holes at both ends so they could be strapped to footwear. The resulting "blade" is very flat compared with modern skates, but it formed a cutting edge that allowed the wearer to glide across the ice. Read more.

[goneahead]

The Trees Carry Their Dead

They are killing the poets of Myanmar. The trees carry their dead, the fallen log becomes tomorrow’s forest, And we sink, root deep into Gilgamesh, into Beowulf, the griot and the shai’ir quicken the kurals whispering through our veins. They are killing the poets of Afghanistan. The trees carry their dead, the felled log feeds a thousand saplings, And the winds of ancient Patna and golden Heian rustle our written leaves, Sappho and Hungry Coyote loose the landays in our throats. Tibet, Somalia, Cuba, Syria and Venzuela. Hong Kong and the Congo. The lists are long, the trees carry their dead, and so do we. So do we. We sink our roots deep, deeper than tyranny, deeper than hatred. They are killing the poets in Ürümqi, but we are writing a forest, a forest of new words, growing, unfurling, rising green and free from each fallen heart. The trees carry their dead and So do we, And so do we. ~~~~~ note: both a griot and a shai’ir is a traditional poet, kurals and landays are traditional poetry forms.

[m9sworld]

Ürümqi, Xinjiang: Walk and Talk with Daniel Dumbrill

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 11.13 (after 1970)

1970 – Bhola cyclone: A 240 km/h (150 mph) tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night. 1982 – Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas. Kim's subsequent death (on November 17) leads to significant changes in the sport. 1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans. 1985 – The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people. 1985 – Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor. 1986 – The Late, Late Breakfast Show incident leads to death of 24 year old Michael Lush and show cancellation. 1989 – Hans-Adam II, the present Prince of Liechtenstein, begins his reign on the death of his father. 1990 – In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people in a massacre before being tracked down and killed by police the next day. 1991 – The Republic of Karelia, an autonomous republic of Russia, is formed from the former Karelian ASSR. 1992 – The High Court of Australia rules in Dietrich v The Queen that although there is no absolute right to have publicly funded counsel, in most circumstances a judge should grant any request for an adjournment or stay when an accused is unrepresented. 1993 – China Northern Airlines Flight 6901 crashes on approach to Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport in Ürümqi, China, killing 12 people. 1994 – In a referendum, voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union. 1995 – Mozambique becomes the first state to join the Commonwealth of Nations without having been part of the former British Empire. 1995 – Nigeria Airways Flight 357 crashes at Kaduna International Airport in Kaduna, Nigeria, killing 11 people and injuring 66. 1996 – As part of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project, Joel Armengaud discovers the project's first Mersenne prime number, 2^{1398269}-1}, a number with 420,921 digits. 2000 – Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada. 2001 – War on Terror: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States. 2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441. 2002 – During the Prestige oil spill, a storm bursts a tank of the oil tanker MV Prestige, which was not allowed to dock and sank on November 19, 2002, off the coast of Galicia, spilling 63,000 metric tons of heavy fuel oil, more than the Exxon Valdez oil spill. 2012 – A total solar eclipse occurs in parts of Australia and the South Pacific. 2013 – Hawaii legalizes same-sex marriage. 2013 – 4 World Trade Center officially opens. 2015 – Islamic State operatives carry out a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris, including suicide bombings, mass shootings and a hostage crisis. The terrorists kill 130 people, making it the deadliest attack in France since the Second World War.

[famousinuniverse]

Are Uyghurs Turkish or Chinese?

The Uyghurs of China's westernmost Xinjiang autonomous region share ethnic, religious and linguistic ties with people in Turkey, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan. Turkey is thought to house the largest Uyghur diaspora outside Central Asia, at roughly 50,000

Uyghur woman- Emet-Profession: dancer, actress and singer-China

Uyghur woman-Medina Maimaiti-Profession: actress-POD: Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China

The Uyghurs are one of the 56 recognized ethnic groups in China and Uyghur is an official language of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, along with Standard Chinese. As a result, Uyghur can be heard in most social domains in Xinjiang and also in schools, government and courts.

Uyghur woman, China, by Aysel

[ssorknimajneb]

Die Seidenstraße

Als Seidenstraße bezeichnet man ein altes Netz von Karawanenstraßen, dessen Hauptroute den Mittelmeerraum auf dem Landweg über Zentralasien mit Ostasien verband. Die Bezeichnung geht auf den deutschen Geografen Ferdinand von Richthofen zurück, der den Begriff erstmals 1877 verwendete.

In Richtung Westen wurden – außer Seide – vor allem Pelze, Keramik, Porzellan, Jade, Bronze, Gewürze, Lacke und Eisen getragen. Karawanen in Richtung China transportierten unter anderem Gold, Edelsteine und vor allem Glas. Nicht nur Kaufleute, Gelehrte und Armeen nutzten ihr Netz, sondern auch Ideen und Religionen.

Das Kernstück der Seidenstraße, manchmal auch mittlere Seidenstraße genannt, erstreckt sich von der ostiranischen Hochebene und der Stadt Merw im Westen bis zur Wüste Gobi und der Stadt Dunhuang im Osten. Es verbindet drei der wichtigsten asiatischen Kulturräume: Iran, Indien und China. Das Land ist gekennzeichnet durch Wüsten mit alten Oasenstädten, der Kasachensteppe im Westen und der mongolischen Steppe im Osten sowie hohen Gebirgen.

Die Hauptroute teilt sich streckenweise in verschiedene Zweige auf. Von Merw konnte man den Oxus (heute Amudarja) überqueren und erreichte die in Transoxanien gelegenen Städte Buchara und Samarkand. Von dort aus führte ein Nordostzweig über Taschkent nördlich des Tian-Shan-Gebirges über Beshbaliq (bei Ürümqi) und über Turpan (Turfan), Hami (Kumul), vereinigte sich bei Anxi (heute Guazhou) wieder mit dem Hauptzweig. Der Hauptzweig folgte von Samarkand aus dem Oberlauf des Jaxartes (Syrdarja) durch das von diesem bewässerte Ferghanatal über Kokand (Qoʻqon) und Andijon, überquerte das Tian-Shan-Gebirge und gelangte nach Kaschgar (Kaxgar) im Tarimbecken.

Für viele der großen Städte in Usbekistan war in den vergangenen Jahrhunderten vor allem dieser Handel Basis des Wohlstandes, des Kulturaustausches und der internationalen Beziehungen. Natürlich trugen die Kriegszüge der Timuriden ebenfalls bei.

In Samarkand ist dem Thema Seidenstraße ein ganzes Museum gewidmet, welches ich auch besucht hatte.

In der heutigen Zeit strebt die Volksrepublik China den Aufbau einer "neuen Seidenstraße" an, indem sie massiv in den Ausbau von Schienen- und Straßen- Infrastrukturprojekte investiert, um so den Warentransfer Richtung Westen via Landweg zu verbessern und beschleunigen.

[chineseredcarpet]

Yu Menglong for a Bosideng brand event in Ürümqi

[jewish-sideblog]

That first photo is of Xinjiang’s capital city, Ürümqi, which is 75% Han Chinese. You’re an absolute fool if you think Uyghurs are living in those high rise luxury apartment buildings. This would be like posting a photo of Nazis at their fancy vacation homes in Schwanenwerder and insisting it was proof that the Shoah wasn’t happening.

This is all really easily googleable btw.

This subreddit is a cesspool of garbage.

It's a popular leftist social media hub and it is taken over by deranged shit like this. Posting war footage which by the way, Ukraine has the same type of footage you can find lol so does Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq. War is not genocide.

And on top of that they clearly are implying that the Uyghurs aren't being genocided, once again not comprehending what genocide is, which is not relative to how many died or how much destruction was caused.

Genocide is determined by genocidal intent. And the Chinese government very much intends to erase the Uyghurs. Say you oppose genocide while denying an actual genocide ongoing in front of you. Lunatic behavior.