Lost in Smog
Darren Byler on translating the fiction of Uyghur writer Perhat Tursun
"In 2018, the novelist and poet Perhat Tursun disappeared into a Uyghur detention center somewhere in Xinjiang, China, where he is now serving a 16-year prison sentence for an unspecified offense."
Die Uigur*innen sind eine muslimische Minderheit, die in der Provinz #Xinjiang im Nordwesten #China s leben. Seit 2019 ist bekannt, dass die chinesische Regierung über eine Million von ihnen in Lager interniert. Der US-amerikanischen Anthropologe #DarrenByler blickt in seinem bald erscheinenden Buch "Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City" aus einer marxistischen Perspektive auf Situation der Uigur*innen. Im Gespräch mir Radio Corax beschreibt er die Politik der Kommunistischen Partei in Xinjiang als kolonialen Prozess der ursprünglichen Akkumulation und ordnet die Masseninternierung der uigurischen Bevölkerung in eine kapitalistische Verwertungslogik ein. Er berichtet auch von uigurischer Widerständigkeit und dem mangelnden Interesse der globalen Linken.
https://radiocorax.de/die-kolonisierung-xinjiangs-enteignung-und-gefaengnisarbeit-der-uigurinnen/
Since 2018, there has been a notable rise in articles promoting marriage between Han men and Uyghur women. At a time when many people across China think of Uyghur men as potential terrorists and Uyghur women as potential fashion models, a new interethnic sexual politics is being institutionalized across Xinjiang. Uyghur women — who are characterized as stunningly beautiful and exceptionally caring — are being exoticized and eroticized, even as Han authors warn to resolutely fight the three evils of “ethnic separatism, religious extremism, and violent terrorism.”
"The only kind of Uyghur life that can be recognized by the state is the one that the computer sees. This makes Uyghurs like Dawut feel as though their lives only matter as data—code on a screen, numbers in camps. They have adapted their behavior, and slowly even their thoughts, to the system.
'Uyghurs are alive, but their entire lives are behind walls,' Dawut said softly. 'It is like they are ghosts living in another world.'"
Data-fueled, state-supported terror capitalism. Welcome to the future.
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