Timothy Grose
@timothyagrose.bsky.social
Associate Professor (Uyghur homeland, ethnic policy in China); Tibetan pop music translator; organizer of "Tibetan Separatist Activities" according to ChinaDaily
Aww. @chinadailyusa.bsky.social is thinking about me!!!
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Aww. @chinadailyusa.bsky.social is thinking about me!!!
Maybe just a moment of discouragement, but between @lauratmurphy.bsky.social censorship @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social, @manuginobili.bsky.social in Hangzhou for an NBA event, and booming tourism in XJ, it’s hard not to feel corporate interests win—and impossible to ignore the Uyghurs left behind
November 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Maybe just a moment of discouragement, but between @lauratmurphy.bsky.social censorship @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social, @manuginobili.bsky.social in Hangzhou for an NBA event, and booming tourism in XJ, it’s hard not to feel corporate interests win—and impossible to ignore the Uyghurs left behind
Amazing World Peace Mandala timelapse created by RHIT Communication and Marketing's David Essex and Bryan Cantwell (uploaded and shared with their permission)
youtu.be/E4sHiF3WQKs
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Mandala Time Lapse
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November 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Amazing World Peace Mandala timelapse created by RHIT Communication and Marketing's David Essex and Bryan Cantwell (uploaded and shared with their permission)
youtu.be/E4sHiF3WQKs
youtu.be/E4sHiF3WQKs
A Chinese State Media broadcast that describes some of the Party's strategies to control Tibetan monasteries from within. youtu.be/2-h2Qm0Uhas
Chinese State Media Report on Monastery Management in Tibet
YouTube video by Heaven is High and The Emperor is Far Away 天高皇帝远
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October 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
A Chinese State Media broadcast that describes some of the Party's strategies to control Tibetan monasteries from within. youtu.be/2-h2Qm0Uhas
Not at all new, but a post last week from Kashgar shows that education officials are doubling down on Sinification in Uyghur majority schools. "说国家通用语言、写国家通用语言文字”已成为校园里的新风尚" Speaking and writing the national common language have become the campus' new trends"
October 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Not at all new, but a post last week from Kashgar shows that education officials are doubling down on Sinification in Uyghur majority schools. "说国家通用语言、写国家通用语言文字”已成为校园里的新风尚" Speaking and writing the national common language have become the campus' new trends"
trip down memory lane took me to footage from the Labrang Mosque...now almost ten years ago. youtu.be/cxv-YpWzEpA
Salat at the Labrang Mosque
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October 29, 2025 at 2:10 AM
trip down memory lane took me to footage from the Labrang Mosque...now almost ten years ago. youtu.be/cxv-YpWzEpA
The Tashi Kyil monks are on break now, but tune in to see them put the finishing touches on the mandala and stay for its deconstruction www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9qw...
Mandala last day
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October 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The Tashi Kyil monks are on break now, but tune in to see them put the finishing touches on the mandala and stay for its deconstruction www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9qw...
I forget how it goes exactly, but there is a saying about surrounding yourself with people smarter than you. well, that's my strategy. humbled to be part of this team, honored to receive this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity from LUCE/ @acls1919.bsky.social and motivated to make this project special
Big congratulations to @timothyagrose.bsky.social @drdavidtobin.bsky.social @emilyupson.bsky.social, who received a Luce/ACLS Collaborative Grant in China Studies for their project, "Un-Settling Xinjiang: Archiving, Digitizing and Curating Knowledge of Settler Colonial Violence in China and Beyond."
Recent Fellows
Formed in 1919, ACLS is a nonprofit federation of 81 scholarly organizations. As the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, ACLS holds a core belief…
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October 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I forget how it goes exactly, but there is a saying about surrounding yourself with people smarter than you. well, that's my strategy. humbled to be part of this team, honored to receive this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity from LUCE/ @acls1919.bsky.social and motivated to make this project special
Reposted by Timothy Grose
Big congratulations to @timothyagrose.bsky.social @drdavidtobin.bsky.social @emilyupson.bsky.social, who received a Luce/ACLS Collaborative Grant in China Studies for their project, "Un-Settling Xinjiang: Archiving, Digitizing and Curating Knowledge of Settler Colonial Violence in China and Beyond."
Recent Fellows
Formed in 1919, ACLS is a nonprofit federation of 81 scholarly organizations. As the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, ACLS holds a core belief…
www.acls.org
October 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Big congratulations to @timothyagrose.bsky.social @drdavidtobin.bsky.social @emilyupson.bsky.social, who received a Luce/ACLS Collaborative Grant in China Studies for their project, "Un-Settling Xinjiang: Archiving, Digitizing and Curating Knowledge of Settler Colonial Violence in China and Beyond."
I recorded this talk for a conference I attended virtually after tech difficulties prevented the audience from seeing the slides. The images are pretty powerful. Although not professionally edited, I hate to think that it was just collecting digital dust in my hard drive. youtu.be/7YyA3nUwh9k
"'#Uyghurs are #uyghurs they aren't Muslims'" (talk on religious restrictions and secularization)
YouTube video by Heaven is High and The Emperor is Far Away 天高皇帝远
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July 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I recorded this talk for a conference I attended virtually after tech difficulties prevented the audience from seeing the slides. The images are pretty powerful. Although not professionally edited, I hate to think that it was just collecting digital dust in my hard drive. youtu.be/7YyA3nUwh9k
Happy when vloggers unwittingly post evidence of state violence in the region. This poster is from the fanghuiju (sometimes called "becoming family--long story) campaign. As shown, each family is designated as either "regular" (true here) "trustworthy" or "untrustworthy..."
May 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Happy when vloggers unwittingly post evidence of state violence in the region. This poster is from the fanghuiju (sometimes called "becoming family--long story) campaign. As shown, each family is designated as either "regular" (true here) "trustworthy" or "untrustworthy..."
some words of mine included in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Uyghur rights group calls on hotel chains not to ‘sanitise’ China abuses in Xinjiang
Growth in international hotels coincides with government effort to push region as a tourism destination
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April 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
some words of mine included in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
A combination of certificates for having fewer children, a one time 6000rmb subsidy with 150 yuan given each month “long-term” birth control measures are used, and bonus points for children on entrance exams saw new births in this rural Uyghur village drop over 50% in 4 years
April 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
A combination of certificates for having fewer children, a one time 6000rmb subsidy with 150 yuan given each month “long-term” birth control measures are used, and bonus points for children on entrance exams saw new births in this rural Uyghur village drop over 50% in 4 years
Books from China came!!!
April 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Books from China came!!!
All these Ramadan--and now Eid--posts about the "freeness" of religious expression in Xinjiang by folks, some dressing up like they're some sort of sultan... For reference, here are some of the rituals, practices, and celebrations of the sacred month before authorities tightened restrictions.
April 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
All these Ramadan--and now Eid--posts about the "freeness" of religious expression in Xinjiang by folks, some dressing up like they're some sort of sultan... For reference, here are some of the rituals, practices, and celebrations of the sacred month before authorities tightened restrictions.
So lemme get this straight. Move to XJ on a whim while finishing a PhD. “Out of nowhere” met someone who knows Senuber Tursun who then agrees to teach you dutur. Well regardless how it panned out, I hope he asks her about the trouble she found herself in for “endangering state security” @shahit.biz
April 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM
So lemme get this straight. Move to XJ on a whim while finishing a PhD. “Out of nowhere” met someone who knows Senuber Tursun who then agrees to teach you dutur. Well regardless how it panned out, I hope he asks her about the trouble she found herself in for “endangering state security” @shahit.biz
we should all just stay off Twitter--the dull stupidity. the post says, "Ramadan in Xinjiang--blah blah--can we celebrate". Well this is Eid--Ramadan is over. the police say, yeah you can dance and do a lot of things... no mention of fasting. why are you dressed like that, bruh?
April 2, 2025 at 11:57 PM
we should all just stay off Twitter--the dull stupidity. the post says, "Ramadan in Xinjiang--blah blah--can we celebrate". Well this is Eid--Ramadan is over. the police say, yeah you can dance and do a lot of things... no mention of fasting. why are you dressed like that, bruh?
"my" attorney general
March 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
"my" attorney general
Reposted by Timothy Grose
Adding the transcription/translation of phone calls from Radio Free Asia Uyghur that confirmed the detention of young linguistics scholar Nebijan Hebibulla (shahit.biz/eng/1544/).
He was detained in February 2018, while a professor at Xinjiang University, and given 15 years.
He was detained in February 2018, while a professor at Xinjiang University, and given 15 years.
March 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Adding the transcription/translation of phone calls from Radio Free Asia Uyghur that confirmed the detention of young linguistics scholar Nebijan Hebibulla (shahit.biz/eng/1544/).
He was detained in February 2018, while a professor at Xinjiang University, and given 15 years.
He was detained in February 2018, while a professor at Xinjiang University, and given 15 years.
Thrilled and honored to be part of this year’s cohort of Wilson Fellows! I hope my project about how low level cadres in the Uyghur homeland blog about their work will demonstrate the seriousness of the crisis to a much broader audience www.wilsoncenter.org/article/wils...
Wilson Center Announces 2025-26 Wilson China Fellowship Class
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March 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Thrilled and honored to be part of this year’s cohort of Wilson Fellows! I hope my project about how low level cadres in the Uyghur homeland blog about their work will demonstrate the seriousness of the crisis to a much broader audience www.wilsoncenter.org/article/wils...
Reposted by Timothy Grose
What's been happening in the Uyghur region? it's still dire: 500k-1m detained in prisons and new kanshousuo; assimilating institutionalization of non-Han young, old in boarding schools, nursing homes while working age non-Han pushed to distant forced labor. New report: www.ushmm.org/genocide-pre...
Eight Years On, China’s Repression of the Uyghurs Remains Dire - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The report seeks to improve our collective understanding of China’s ongoing repressive policies in the predominantly Uyghur province of Xinjiang in western China. It finds that, given the available in...
www.ushmm.org
March 2, 2025 at 11:03 PM
What's been happening in the Uyghur region? it's still dire: 500k-1m detained in prisons and new kanshousuo; assimilating institutionalization of non-Han young, old in boarding schools, nursing homes while working age non-Han pushed to distant forced labor. New report: www.ushmm.org/genocide-pre...
Marco Rubio's expression is priceless...
February 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Marco Rubio's expression is priceless...
ལོ་སར་བཟང་། Happy Losar! First translation in a long time, but I thought it fitting to offer one new Losar song this season! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktMk...
Losar (གནམ་ལོ་གསར་བ། གཞས་པ།) by 'Jo mda' 'jam dbyangs (འཇོ་མདའ་འཇམ་དབྱངས།)
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February 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
ལོ་སར་བཟང་། Happy Losar! First translation in a long time, but I thought it fitting to offer one new Losar song this season! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktMk...
Losar (Tibetan New Year) is upon us. I've translated several songs over the years that celebrate this auspicious day (some captions require turning on CC) www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Losar (Tibetan New Year) - YouTube
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February 27, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Losar (Tibetan New Year) is upon us. I've translated several songs over the years that celebrate this auspicious day (some captions require turning on CC) www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
eerie...and, most importantly, tragic. "last seen near Kashgar"
February 27, 2025 at 4:15 AM
eerie...and, most importantly, tragic. "last seen near Kashgar"