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A report of a PSB hunt in Xinjiang for a group of foreign missionaries and their Chinese cohorts. Predictably, God ends up intervening on the side of the missionaries. (Doesn't the PSB deserve to catch a break, too?)

There were about 750,000 cotton picking Chinese who showed up to, well, pick cotton in Xinjiang in China's Uygur Autonomous Region.

Xinjiang is China's largest cotton manufacturing base and the government is fertilizing the area with ...

Michael Manning has posted two beautiful panoramic shots of Xinjiang on his blog.

Finally, a Xinjiang souvenir that doesn't make you look like a monkey in sequins. Check out awesome new Xinjiang-themed gear from The Opposite End of China.

Exiled Uighur rights campaigner and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Rebiya Kadeer, is again making headlines with the top Party leaders of the Xinjiang area meeting to bad mouth her.

Previously Kadeer had been jailed in China for 'leaking State secrets.' She was released in 2005 and now lives in exile in the US. Despite not winning the Nobel Peace Prize, she continues to fight for the rights of the Uighur people - the largest 'ethnic minority' in China's vast Xinjiang province.

Hundreds of thousands of Shanghai teenagers are sent to Xinjiang in the early 1960's. A few years later, they're fueling the chaos and violence of the Cultural Revolution. (With archive articles from the NY Times.)

This week, Xinjiang saw more and more national park action, continuing victories for the Flying Tigers, a great outpouring of charity for Xinjiang’s first “Donation Month,” a new bus route to Mongolia, among other things. Check out the past week's Xinjiang events at the New Dominion.

This week in Xinjiang, global warming was given a silver lining, the XPCC strengthened its presence in Northern Xinjiang, a model Uyghur policeman was selected as a finalist for Olympic torchbearer, TVs were distributed to rural households by the Ministry of Propaganda over New Year’s, flights between Urumqi and Dushanbe were regularized, and more.

Six months into her third pregnancy Arzigul Tursun, part of the Uyghur minority here in Xinjiang, was detained against her will for a forced abortion. International pressure has led to her release, but why did it have to come to that? What is the solution to family planning for minorities in places like Xinjiang?