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...born Orkache (pronounced Wu-er-kai-she as transliterated into Chinese) Dawlat in Beijing on Feb. 17, 1968, a native Uighur, in the midst of the Cultural Revolution, when an aging Mao Zedong fomented social unrest in the name of class struggle. A family portrait shows Wuer, age 1, holding up a copy of Mao's Little Red Book. Throughout the rigors of the period, his father remained a loyal member of the party who spent years translating the works of Marx, Lenin and Mao from Chinese into Uighur. When thousands of China's intellectuals were forced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portrait of a Hooligan | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

Wuer Kaixi. 21. A Uighur with wavy black hair, big round eyes, high cheekbones. Shown last week on Chinese television on secret videotape from a Beijing hotel that falsely suggested he was eating when he was on a hunger strike in Tiananmen Square. Wanted by the Chinese government. His crime: he was a leader of the prodemocracy movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portrait of a Hooligan | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations offers nine classes in Akkadian. The only Akkadian I have ever heard of is the instrument played at Italian weddings. The Turkic department offers two courses in Elementary Uzbek, and a course in both Old or Modern Uighur. I don't know what Uzbek is, and I can't even pronounce Uighur...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: STUFF I THINK: | 2/17/1987 | See Source »

None of these courses have prerequisites, although for Modern Uighur, "Knowledge of any Turkish language [is] desirable." And for Old Uighur, "Knowledge of any Turkic Language is desirable." What's the difference between Turkish and Turkic? And under which category does Uzbek fall...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: STUFF I THINK: | 2/17/1987 | See Source »

...that Urumqi time or Peking time?" asked a visitor to the capital of China's remote Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, as he prepared to adjust his watch. A local official tartly replied, "Urumqi time is Peking time." He was, of course, correct, even though the provincial capital is 2,000 miles west of Peking. Until now, all time in China, which sprawls across four time zones, has been Peking time. But the Middle Kingdom has been undergoing rapid change in every sphere, and time is no exception. As of Feb. 1, Urumqi was allowed to set its clocks according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: If It's Light, It Must Be Urumqi | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

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