http://www.uyghuramerican.org/ en-us http://www.uyghuramerican.org/ N/A zarapshan@gmail.com Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:35:47 -0700 20 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/37/1/Loulan-Vanished-in-Sand/Loulan-Vanished-in-Sand.html "What a wonderful place to stay this must have been," wrote the Swedish explorer Sven Hedin during his second visit to the ruins of Loulan, on the eastern outskirts of China's Taklamakan Desert in March 1901, seeing in his mind's eye the vanished town on the edge of Lake Lop Nor as it must have looked 22 centuries ago. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/58/1/East-Turkistan-is-the-Historical-Homeland-of-Uyghurs/East-Turkistan-is-the-Historical-Homeland-of-Uyghurs.html You raised a very important question that we would like to answer. Present day "Xinjiang " has always been the homeland of Uyghurs since ancient times. The following historical evidence prove this. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/56/1/Is-Eastern-Turkestan-a-Chinese-Territory/Is-Eastern-Turkestan-a-Chinese-Territory.html During an interview with the correspondent of the Beijing Review, Wang Enmao, first secretary of Eastern Turkestan Party Committee, claims that: zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/54/1/Orkhun-Inscriptions/Orkhun-Inscriptions.html ...The expression of the Chinese are flowery and their gifts are pleasant... Their flowery words and pleasant gifts appeal to the peoples living far off... zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/52/1/Rare-Relics-Record-History-of-Silk-Road/Rare-Relics-Record-History-of-Silk-Road.html A garment made of fabrics with dazzling gold foil sewn on applique work, dating back to the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 24), was recently unearthed from a tomb in Lop Nur, a desolate area in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/49/1/Buddhism-and-Its-Spread-Along-the-Silk-Road/Buddhism-and-Its-Spread-Along-the-Silk-Road.html There one sees a structure of an elevation prodigious in height; it is supported by gigantic pillars and covered with paintings of all the birds created by God. In the interior are two immense idols carved in the rock and rising from the foot of the mountains to the summit....One cannot see anything comparable to these statues in the whole world." zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/48/1/Nestorian-Christianity-and-Uyghurs/Nestorian-Christianity-and-Uyghurs.html Erkin Alptekin's profile of the Uyghurs was very well researched and written. However, I see one glaring ommission in his record of Uyghur history. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/47/1/Syrian-Language-quotHoly-Biblequot-Discovered-in-Dunhuang-Grottoes/Syrian-Language-quotHoly-Biblequot-Discovered-in-Dunhuang-Grottoes.html yrian Language "Holy Bible" Discovered in Dunhuang Grottoes Chinese archaeologists have discovered excerpts from the Christian Bible written in an ancient Syrian language in the northern zone of the Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang, northwest China's Gansu Province. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/46/1/East-West-Exchange-Starts-5000-Years-Ago/East-West-Exchange-Starts-5000-Years-Ago.html Experts More than a dozen heads of maces dating back to between 3,000 and 5,000 years ago, extremely similar to those used by kings of ancient Egypt, were recently unearthed in northwest China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/45/1/East-Turkistan-Collections-in-Sweden/East-Turkistan-Collections-in-Sweden.html There is a rather big collection of plants from Eastern Turkestan in Sweden. It was Carl Persson one of the missionaries who brought them to Sweden, and they are kept in "Riksmuséets botaniska samlingar" in Stockholm. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/44/1/A-Good-Old-Song---Ambar-Xan/A-Good-Old-Song---Ambar-Xan.html We do not know the original title of the song. The name "Davancingning Qizi" was apparently derived from the first word of the poem. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/43/1/Xinjiang-After-Sheng-Shicai/Xinjiang-After-Sheng-Shicai.html The first GMD official to be appointed to the position of Chairman of the Xinjiang provincial government was Wu Zhongxin, (79) a follower of the "Great Han" school of thought, "which holds that all the inhabitants of China belong to one (Chinese) family, and that incidental differences of culture, religion and language are unfortunate aberrations, destined to be subsumed in a 'Greater Han' Chinese whole." zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/42/1/Songs-of-Uighur-Fighting-Men/Songs-of-Uighur-Fighting-Men.html Two years ago I met His Holiness Dalai Lama in London. The first words His Holiness said to me were in Chinese: "Tong bing xiang lian." In English it means those who have the same illness sympathize with each other. We Uighurs have got the same illness as the Tibetans, that's why I am here. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/41/1/Major-Events-of-the-Second-East-Turkistan-Republic/Major-Events-of-the-Second-East-Turkistan-Republic.html As we all know, the 12th of November, 1996, marks the 52nd anniversary of one of the greatest events in our history. Our forefathers successfully established an independent Eastern Turkistan Republic (ETR) and ruled the country for about 6 years. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/40/1/In-Memory-of-the-East-Turkistan-Republic/In-Memory-of-the-East-Turkistan-Republic.html November 12, 2000, marks the 56th anniversary of one of the greatest events in the history of the people of Eastern Turkistan -- the establishment of the Eastern Turkistan Republic (ETR). Let us take a moment to cherish the memory of our forefather's who fought for the independence and freedom of our nation. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/39/1/Changes-in-Uighur-Script-During-the-Past-50-Years/Changes-in-Uighur-Script-During-the-Past-50-Years.html This report concerns the changes in the Uighur script which have occurred in the recent half century, and the historical background against which these developments took place. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/38/1/East-Turkistan-Or-Uyghuristan/East-Turkistan-Or-Uyghuristan.html Until now, our country has been called by various names such as "Uyghuristan", "Eastern Turkistan", "Xinjiang" or "Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region". Among these names "Xinjiang" or "XUAR" are Chinese names forcibly imposed by the Han Chinese. Therefore, we have considered these names illegal and have never admitted and will never admit to them. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/51/1/4000-Year-Old-Tombs-Re-Discovered-in-Lop-Nur/4000-Year-Old-Tombs-Re-Discovered-in-Lop-Nur.html Chinese archaeologists have recently re-discovered the Xiaohe Tombs (Small River tombs) in Lop Nur, a desert in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, after they were first found 66 years ago. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 19 Jan 2001 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/55/1/Falsification-of-Turkic-History-Culture-and-Civilization/Falsification-of-Turkic-History-Culture-and-Civilization.html Throughout centuries, China's policy towards its neighbors has been based on deception, falsification and exploitation. The following record, written by the great Chinese historian Pan Ku of the Han Dynasty (206 BC- 200 AD), exemplifies the mainstream of Chinese policy towards it's neighbors: zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 15 May 1999 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/50/1/Handsome-Ancient-Mummy-Found/Handsome-Ancient-Mummy-Found.html An ancient mummy dubbed the "handsome Yingpan man" has been found in China's remote northwest province of Xinjiang, state media reported. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 23 Apr 1999 00:00:00 -0700