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London Launch
Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Zemin approve! The London launch for The Tree That Bleeds will take place at Arthur Probsthain, 41 Great Russell Street (just opposite the British Museum) between...
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Edinburgh Book Launch
Some excellent coats in Urumqi I’ll be at Waterstones, 128 Princes St, Edinburgh, between 6-8pm on Thursday September 29th. I will be talking about my travel/politics book ‘The Tree That Bleeds’, out...
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Reviews
Sadur, who fought the Qing invaders, sitting in his cell, eating what appears to be a very reasonable lunch. Here are the main reviews of The Tree That Bleeds so far- I’d like to express my gratitude...
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Quoted
Paramedics in Hotan after the 'incident' in July 2011 I was asked my opinion about recent violence in Xinjiang- here it is: CHINA: New Laws to Crack Down on Uyghurs – IPS ipsnews.net
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Backstabbing
The brave and noble Sadur who never stabbed anyone in the back From a new review of The Tree That Bleeds in the Asia Times Online: “Some readers may be appalled by the author’s behavior in reporting on...
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My ‘unquenchable and dangerous curiosity’.
A lot of authors seem to dread their reviews, but I have really enjoyed mine. It’s not because they’ve been wholehearedly positive, far from it. All have hated my brief use of the second person. Most...
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Review in SCA magazine
Sceptics in the Yining market Barry Moore, the Chairman of the Scotland China Association, Glasgow Branch, was kind enough to write a review of my book for their magazine: Book Review: Nick Holdstock,...
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NYC X 2
I’ll be having two kinds of fun in NYC this month. I’ll be giving a paper at the Association for the Study of Nationalities conference at Columbia University on 19th April. The paper is titled...
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Interview about The Tree That Bleeds now up on China File
There’s a short video of me speaking about The Tree That Bleeds now up at China File, where there’s a lot of other great content. Thanks to Maura Cunningham for doing the interview and for editing my...
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‘One Big Unhappy Family’
Here’s the review of The Tree That Bleeds from the April issue of Literary Review. Click on the images to enlarge.
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Living Shrines
My interview with Lisa Ross on Uyghur shrines in the desert is at the Los Angeles Review of Books- thanks again to her for answering my questions in such a thoughtful manner.
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Learning the Wrong Lessons in Xinjiang
A show of force in Urumqi this week My piece for the 4th anniversary of the Urumqi riots is at Dissent magazine.
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Travelling the Silk Road of Pop
Verbally, that is. My Q and A with the director of this wonderful documentary about Uyghur music is now up at China File Trailer:
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‘Terrorism’ in Tiananmen Square
There was an explosion in Tiananmen Square last week. On the LRB Blog I write about why it wasn’t terrorism.
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Behind the Dunes
My piece on Lisa Ross’ exhibition in London of photos from Xinjiang is up on the London Review of Books Blog. My interview with her earlier this year is at the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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The Death of Old Kashgar
I went back to Kashgar, in southern Xinjiang, in September last year for the first time in 13 years. In 2000 it was a place that I was sorry to leave; I didn’t feel the same this time. More words and...
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Free Ilham Tohti
Ilham Tohti, the respected Uyghur economist, has been charged with separatism and faces ten years to life in prison in China. It’s the kind of thing that’s a reminder of how China’s judicial and...
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After Kunming
I attempt to make sense of the horrible killings in Kunming on the LRB Blog
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Talk on Xinjiang in Chinese and Western Media
I’ll be talking at Westminster University, London, on March 19th about how Western and Chinese media tends to represent the Xinjiang issue in different yet equally distorting ways – details here.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘the Uyghurs’
Back street in Urumqi, September 2013 Firstly, apologies to Raymond Carver for being yet another desecrator of his great title. Secondly- this is the title of my latest piece on Xinjiang, which is in...
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