James Millward 米華健

Historian of China & Central Asia and mandolinist w By & By. Work on Xinjiang, Qing, Silk Road, & stringed instruments across Eurasia.@[email protected]

[James Millward 米華健 @JimMillward]

Xinjiang Syllabus: a short list of key readings on the crisis in Xinjiang / East Turkestan:

https://t.co/jkRHPTig4v

[Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔 @HistorianZhang]

Every tenure track faculty on an H1-B is now at risk of having to leave when the time is up

[James Millward 米華健 @JimMillward]

Harvard wins a battle in the last war. AI makes this irrelevant: we can’t tell who best students are. Plus, do we need 11-12 discrete gradations (D-A with pluses / minuses)? Is such precision meaningful? 3-4 is plenty. Plus, employers don’t use GPA anyway https://t.co/UgI6TKCwl5

[James Millward 米華健 @JimMillward]

Do we universities really want to keep paying this kind of company to centralize student data in this vulnerable way? We really don’t need canvas — I teach perfectly well without it. Plus they kowtow to digital terrorists.

[Rachel Tobac @RachelTobac]

Whoa, Instructure (who owns Canvas) says they came to an agreement with the cyber criminals (typically this means a ransom was paid) in exchange for the stolen data being deleted instead of leaked and criminals ceasing all extortion requests from customers. Huge development.

[Mehmet Tohti @MehmetTohti]

Uyghur Intellectuals, public figures, cultural envoys, influencers, doctors, teachers, soccer players, singers, poets, tech savoys, entrepreneurs.......are Sheppards of Uyghur society, have been the first victim of China's genocidal campaign launched to erase Uyghur identity since 2014.
Prof. Dr Rahila Dawut, Prof. Abduqadir Jalalidin, Prof. Dr Tashpolat Teyip, Prof. Dr Halmurat Ghopur....... more than 487 of them sent to concentration camps and still remain unknown.
This is intellectual genocide to cut the Uyghur society from their own roots and past to achieve speedy eradication of their identity.
China should release those valuable intellectuals immediately.

[James Millward 米華健 @JimMillward]

This is the image of a looming US knowledge gap about China. Restore China Fulbrights! Restore area studies funding! It also builds friendship and empathy to have in person connections as students or through family and friends studying in China.

[Mark Witzke @mkwitzke]

Very few US students are having a "very Chinese time in their life"

[du côté de chez rob @ragandboneshop]

the thing we need our most brilliant minds to work on is some kind of truly hack-proof educational material. what could store lots of dense text and image information at relatively low cost and perhaps not even have an internet connection at all?

https://t.co/BwDPvm6m17

[James Millward 米華健 @JimMillward]

Critical comments suggest this establishment is a bar/restaurant. That’s even more interesting though dark that such a place would ironically evoke the camps and idea of a “base” as a restaurant name, while selling plof (Uyghur celebration food).

[James Millward 米華健 @JimMillward]

库尔勒喝酒培训基地：”Korla【City】 drinking alcohol training base” in the video. “Training” was a term used for the internment camps peaking 2017-2020. 基地 ”base” also seems to me a really weird term in this weird context: same word as for “guerrilla base” etc.

[James Millward 米華健 @JimMillward]

库尔勒喝酒培训基地：”Korla【City】 drinking alcohol training base” in the video. “Training” was a term used for the internment camps peaking 2017-2020. 基地 ”base” also seems to me a really weird term in this weird context: same word as for “guerrilla base” etc.

[Mehmet Tohti @MehmetTohti]

China's government has set up Alcohol Drinking Training Centre (ADTC) for Uyghurs, especially for those who are 70 or older, to push them intoxicate themselves in Korla city in East Turkistan with intensives and rewards.
you cannot draw a picture of evil, however, you can finger point and name it.

[Weijia Jiang @weijia]

The Hilton donated the ~2600 dinners that went unserved at WHCD. They freeze dried the steak and lobster for longer shelf life before giving them to 2 shelters for abused women and children. HUGE thank you to the staff that worked through the night under terrible circumstances.

[Abduweli Ayup @AbduwelA]

Uyghur writing is disappearing.
First, the Uyghur language was banned in schools.
Then in 2017, it was removed from public services.
From 2026, Uyghur letters on streets, signs, and public places were taken away.
However, tombs are still kept in Uyghurland to attract tourists

[Rush Doshi @RushDoshi]

This is factually wrong.

Biden and Xi discussed AI at the Woodside summit in 2023.

They agreed to an AI dialogue there too.

And there were talks on AI at the ministerial level too.

[Rayhan E. Asat @RayhanAsat]

Breaking!

Eight independent @UN experts have sent a communication to China on the severe restrictions of China’s so-called “ethnic unity law” on the #Uyghurs’ cultural way of life, religious freedom, freedom of expression & practice of language etc. They also raised transnational repression and other international law issues that may arise from the “authoritarian law.”

[Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦 @frontlinekit]

Thank you, Taiwan 🇹🇼!

You have provided the largest single donation of ambulances and emergency vehicles since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, 68 vehicles in total!

This generous gift will save countless Ukrainian lives across frontline cities.

UKRAINE WILL WIN!! 🇺🇦

[James Millward 米華健 @JimMillward]

“Israel built its military doctrine on the use of disproportionate force, collective punishment and destroying civilian infrastructure – all acts that constitute war crimes prohibited by international humanitarian law.” https://t.co/tbi0raldKd

[James Millward 米華健 @JimMillward]

David Brophy offers an elegant and thoughtful critique—from the Left—of a supposedly Left article dismissing China’s repression in Xinjiang. Lesson: you can’t defend Chinese policies by parroting PRC white papers, which aren’t rigorous themselves.
https://t.co/LL3CgMjI01

[Gene Bunin @GeneBunin]

This article is essentially bad-faith hogwash, and writing a full list of factual errors and misrepresentations would take a good day (which is better devoted to victims).

I'm going to pick at the few that stood out after a quick skim. (1/7)

[James Millward 米華健 @JimMillward]

Not a good look for Monthly Review fact-checkers

[James Millward 米華健 @JimMillward]

Yes, I looked at this too. The article only discusses work by Zenz and Leibold, whom it smears by association, not their data. It’s familiar faux-left denialism. It ignores the journalism. And it cites an (apparently hallucinated?) non-existent Wang Hui piece.

[Bethany 貝書穎 @BethanyAllenEbr]

Extraordinarily problematic and unserious article from an epistemological perspective. This article claims to present how we know what we know about Xinjiang, but includes zero mention of years worth of reporting on Xinjiang, including an entire series that won a Pulitzer Prize.

[James Millward 米華健 @JimMillward]

Should be getting more attention. You’re not allowed to target schools and medical facilities. Bombing dense civilian neighborhoods is a crime when civilian deaths disproportional. Of course the whole war is illegal. https://t.co/hVbs0OFJSO via @NYTimes

[James Millward 米華健 @JimMillward]

Our brave warriors guarding the fountain in Dupont Circle at 8:30 am Thursday