Launched on November 17, 2024
Updated with new materials regularly
TFF Board members Thore Vest. Everywhere, the delegation was met with a sincere wish to develop knowledge, dialogue, cooperative projects, and initiatives based on citizens’ diplomacy – in general, but with the West in particular. For more, see “Report from the Nordic delegation to China’s Xinjiang Province, September 7-15, 2024.”
While the delegation was in Xinjiang, various ideas were already being discussed from the local to the top level, i.e., with the governor and party leaders of Xinjiang. The two TFF Associates suggested that TFF set up a special section – in addition to its “China and Silk” – where various quality materials about Xinjiang would regularly be published to promote public education about Xinjiang, particularly its contemporary development – worldwide but in the West in particular.
This is now a reality – as can be seen below – but it is only the beginning.
We hope that people who are much more knowledgeable about China and Xinjiang than we are will contact us and suggest materials and that, over time, this will become an important Go-To library for research, travel accounts, commentaries, and the like.
What you find here are texts. Videos from Xinjiang will soon be posted on TFF Substack – check the top menu there later in November.
The Xinjiang Province—formally the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region—is China’s largest province; it’s larger than France. It is extremely rich in ethnicity and cultural expressions thanks to its role and history as a meeting point of both the old Silk Roads and the present Belt and Road Initiative. It has borders with eight neighbouring countries and many amazingly beautiful natural scenery.
Here is a succinct description of Xinjiang, as found in “DeepChina: “Over the past two millennia, this region has witnessed the convergence of Chinese, Indian, Persian, Arab, and even ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, creating a rich mosaic of political, religious, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural interactions. Islam is now the dominant religion in Xinjiang, Buddhism was once the preeminent faith here.”
This Xinjiang Library does not express any standpoint concerning the repeated Western accusations about gross human rights violations taking place in Xinjiang, including genocide, concentration camps, forced labour, etc., disseminated by politicians and media. Regrettably, that is probably the main – perhaps even only – thing Westerners, in general, associate with when hearing the word “Xinjiang”. However, it is also 25 million people, their fascinating history, contemporary development and immense diversity just described so well by DeepChina.
TFF has published three reports relevant to these accusations about Xinjiang: Behind the Smokescreen: An Analysis of the West’s Destructive China Cold War Agenda and Why It Must Stop (2021), The Xinjiang Genocide Determination as Agenda (2021), and the 2024 delegation’s report mentioned above. These reports contain references to this discussion.
While we do include some other reports below with that theme, this library does not prioritize this theme.
To put it simply, there are other aspects of Xinjiang—’ other Xinjiangs’—than the one Washington and Brussels (politicians, media, and some scholars) seem bent on disseminating worldwide for political reasons.
In this library, we prioritize materials created by qualified scholars – Western as well as Chinese/Xinjiangian, other Chinese sources, and people who live in or have visited Xinjiang.
We have not applied any catalogue guidelines until now. We keep it simple by adding materials as we find them or they are suggested to us.
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Library in the making
TFF’s Special Section on Xinjiang
Everything published by TFF about Xinjiang – updated continuously.
TFF’s Video Library about Xinjiang on Substack
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Selected Articles
CGTN – from September 2025
About 100 videos on very diverse aspects of Xinjiang’s development over 70 years
China Daily, September-October, 2025*
Celebrating 70 years of progress in the Uygur Autonomous Region
The Asia Review, September 30, 2025
China’s Xinjiang Development Gains Momentum with Xi Jinping’s Strategic Visit
Xinhua English News, September 26, 2025
70 years of progress: Xinjiang’s growth, unity, and vitality
CGTN, September 19, 2025
Graphics: Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region’s all-round development in 70 years
Yahoo Finance, GlobeNewsWire & Huanqiu, September 19, 2025
Xinjiang at 70: A Thriving Showcase of Culture and Tourism
South China Morning Post, August 9, 2025
China counts down to start of work on Xinjiang-Tibet Railway
Jerry’s Substack & Jerry’s Take On China, August 1, 2025
What about the Camps? Some truth about China’s Xinjiang
People’s Daily Online, July 16, 2025
China’s successful experience of overcoming terrorism: A model for global peace and development
South China Morning Post, June 16, 2025
China’s Xinjiang turns salt desert into fertile farmland in food security push.
Deep China, Substack, May 29, 2025
Was the historical governance of Xinjiang colonial rule in essence?
Historical evidence rebuts the alleged colonial rule in China’s history, demonstrating the central government’s governance of Xinjiang.
Global Times, May 9, 2025
National People’s Congress from Xinjiang welcomes people to experience local charm, refutes West’s smear.
Global Times, April 22, 2025
Those who visit Xinjiang will return with ‘their eyes full of light.’
South China Morning Post, January 16, 2025
China hits back at US curbs with multifront probes into American firms
Pakistan Observer, January 15, 2025
Xinjiang: A Key Hub for BRI, CPEC & European Connectivity
South China Morning Post, January 9, 2025
China concerned by reports of Uygur militants given senior roles in Syrian army
Terje Alnes, Substack, January 4, 2025
Will the US support a proxy war against China in Xinjiang?
Yang Xiaotong, Asia Times, December 13, 2024
China has cause to be terrified of rebel-run Syria.
Victorious rebel leader al-Golani has fought arm-in-arm with Turkestan Islamic Party militants who seek an Islamic state in Xinjiang
Mike Whitney, The Unz Review, December 21, 2024
Washington Deploys Proxies to Xinjiang to Scuttle China’s Giant Infrastructure Project
Run Unz, The Unz Review • An alternative media selection, December 16, 2024
Propaganda-Hoaxes vs. Chinese Reality
An extremely long and well-documented analysis with lots of texts, videos, links and references.
The Economic Times, India, December 14, 2024
After toppling Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad, Uyghur fighters warn Xi Jinping; say next stop China, vow to free East Turkistan
Encyclopædia Britannica’s entry on “Xinjiang.”
China Discovery – Travel Guide Xinjiang 2024
Xinjiang and Uyghurs – What you’re not being told
World Affairs blog written and edited by Chris Kanthan in San Franciscoo.
Unearthing the ancestry of Uygurs: A glimpse into China’s ethnic diversity
DeepChina, 2024
Three basic facts about Xinjiang
DeepChina, 2024, by Mahemuti Jiang Kadir and Madina Jumalifu, Institute of History, Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences
Whose historical homeland was China’s Xinjiang?
DeepChina, 2024
Lawmaker calls for turning Xinjiang into green energy hub
Global Times, March 8, 2022.
China raises Xinjiang cotton with parent firm for Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger
South China Morning Post, September 24, 2024.
Why minority languages are disappearing from some classrooms in Xinjiang but not Tibet
Barry Sautman, South China Morning Post & TFF, September 2024.
How labour mobility shapes lives in Xinjiang
DeepChina, 2024, the author is Nilerbaiyer, the Institute for Communication and Borderland Governance at Jinan University
Xinjiang deserves to be seen with eyes wide open!
Biljana Vankovska, The Transnational, October 31, 2024.
Unity in Diversity in Xinjiang
Pan Yue, DeepChina, June 12, 2024.
Introduction. Narratives from Xinjiang: social and political significance (Abstract)
Asian Ethnicity, Taylor & Francis, 2021.
The Rise of Xinjiang Studies: A Journal of Asian Studies New Author Forum
Journal of Asian Studies, Cambridge University Press, 10 January, 2018.
‘Xinjiang’ on Amazon.com
Search ‘Xinjiang’ and almost 50 publications appear
More to come!
