Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide

The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang

Benno Weiner is an associate professor of modern Chinese history at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier (2020) and co-editor of Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History Under Mao Retold (2020).

Benno Weiner

Fear and Writing in Xinjiang: On Tahir Hamut Izgil’s “Waiting to Be Arrested at Night” and Perhat Tursun’s “The Backstreets”

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Memoir &amp; Essay

Benno Weiner is an associate professor of modern Chinese history at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier (2020) and co-editor of Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History Under Mao Retold (2020).

Benno Weiner

Articles

Fear and Writing in Xinjiang: On Tahir Hamut Izgil’s “Waiting to Be Arrested at Night” and Perhat Tursun’s “The Backstreets”