Benno Weiner is an associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier (2020) and co-editor of Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History Under Mao Retold (2020).
Benno Weiner
Articles
The Fate of China’s Muslims
Two recent books track the history of China’s Muslim minority during a period of suspicion and suppression.
Straining Nation or Expansionist Empire?
Benno Weiner reviews Edward Wong’s “At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China.”
Fear and Writing in Xinjiang: On Tahir Hamut Izgil’s “Waiting to Be Arrested at Night” and Perhat Tursun’s “The Backstreets”
Fear and Writing in Xinjiang: On Tahir Hamut Izgil’s “Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide” and Perhat Tursun’s “The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang.”
