A new report finds that the Chinese government ... including a traditional Uyghur string instrument “dutar” and a shrine called “mazar,” removed from their village names.

(MENAFN) China continues to promote heritage conservation by adding 1,336 traditional villages to the state protection list, according to a notice from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural ...

The report compared the names of 25,000 Xinjiang villages as listed by the National Bureau of Statistics of China between 2009 and 2023. Words like “dutar,” a traditional Uyghur string instrum ...

The report compared the names of 25,000 Xinjiang villages as listed by the National Bureau of Statistics of China between 2009 and 2023. Words like “dutar,” a traditional Uyghur string instrum ...