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Xi Jinping, the paramount leader of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), toured eastern Xinjiang on a four-day ‘investigative tour’ in mid-July—his first visit to the Uyghur Region since 2014. On the surface, the trip and its public messaging do not appear to differ much from those of his predecessors. However, the ideological focus of Xi's remarks made there was one promoting a historical narrative of primordial Zhonghuaness in which Uyghurs, Kyrgyz, Kazakhs and other indigenes of Xinjiang were a component from the beginning. This is an aggressively inclusive narrative, one that minimises non-Han ethnic identity not through exclusion, but by engulfing it within a larger invented category. Xi’s Zhonghua-ism has, in effect, weaponised the imagined community for colonial purposes, complete with shared history, shared land and shared blood flowing through ‘root veins’.

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The Space Shuttle Misdirection The space shuttle Discovery launches successfully, speeding like Pegasus into the blue expanse.1 Live footage of the event was br

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Creative Arts Archivist Jessica Smith writes about the George Gissing collections at the John Rylands Library and how these are used for teaching and research

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