Humar Isaac-Wang worked as a content editor for Tencent and Zhihu from 2010 to 2017. She was born and raised in a Uighur family, she was educated completely in Mandarin, which made her a misfit in both Uighur and Han communities. She writes about her experience on Chinese social media in Mandarin, hoping to help mainly Han Chinese readers understand the Uighur/Chinese minority situation and experience.

Last Updated: May 7, 2019

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05.14.19

Islamophobia in China

Ian Johnson, Kelly Hammond & more
Roughly 20 million Muslims live in China today; many of them live in the northwest region of Xinjiang, where the government is incarcerating an estimated one million Uighur Muslims. In recent weeks, news reports have emerged of the razing of mosques...