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seeingredinchina.com — Han vs. Minority Group

This first viewpoint has been the most popular one cited so far, but after talking with my Chinese friend at length about this topic, I think it's only part of the picture.

www.nytimes.com — The five-star hotels are full, bulldozers are making quick work of dreary slums and billboards for “French-style villas” call out to the nouveau riche. In the year since rioting between the Han and Uighur ethnic groups killed nearly 200 people in this city in far western China, life appears to be returning to normal.

www.farwestchina.com — I just finished reviewing an interesting book called 'Under the Heel of the Dragon', a study using interviews with both Han and Uyghur to uncover what they really think about each other and why Xinjiang is having so many problems. I knew there was friction, but these interviews were shocking at times.

www.nytimes.com — "It (China) also took one most unusual step: Hours after troops quelled the protests, in which 156 people were reported killed, the state invited foreign journalists on an official trip to Urumqi, Xinjiang’s capital and the site of the unrest, “to know better about the riots.” Indeed, it set up a media center at a downtown hotel — with a hefty discount on rooms — to keep arriving reporters abreast

yishilaoshanyang.typepad.com — Red is the new white in China as more young couples forgo Western wedding gowns and rituals for the richly embroidered, crimson costumes and intricate traditions of the ancient Han way. Yet many of their traditions were relegated to history, especially during the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, when the old ways were seen to have no place in new, Communist China. But now things are changing...