1989 Ürümqi unrest

1989 riots in Xinjiang, China 19 May incident August 2026 1989 Ürümqi unrest People's Square, Ürümqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China 19 May 1989 UTC+8 150 The 1989 Ürümqi unrest, also known as the 19 May riots in Ürümqi (乌鲁木齐五·一九骚乱), took place in Ürümqi, the capital of Xinjiang, China, in May 1989. The unrest began with Muslim protesters marching to and attackingA Recent History of Unrest in Xinjiang | Xinjiang: Far West China 6 August 2009 http://www.farwestchina.com/2009/08/recent-history-of-unrest-in-xinjiang.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120302045441/http://www.farwestchina.com/2009/08/recent-history-of-unrest-in-xinjiang.html 2 March 2012 live 18 February 2012 the Xinjiang Chinese Communist Party (CCP) office tower at People's Square on 19 May 1989. The protesters included Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Turkic peoples, as well as Hui Chinese. The immediate cause was a book titled Sexual Customs (zh-Hans-CN 性风俗) published in March 1989 which purported to describe the sexual life of Muslims and contained a number of controversial passages comparing Islamic architecture to various sexual features. This caused protests from Hui in Gansu, Ningxia and Xinjiang. The protesters, mainly Uyghur and Hui, initially conducted an orderly march in the previous days and demanded that the government should destroy Sexual Customs and punish the two authors of the book (who used the pseudonyms "Ke Le" and "Sang Ya"), who were compared to Salman Rushdie in a reference to the controversy around The Satanic Verses.乌鲁木齐穆斯林游行——5.19事件/尼扎穆丁∙侯赛因文/伊利夏提译 http://boxun.com/news/gb/china/2011/08/201108300704.shtml live https://web.archive.org/web/20120308035458/http://boxun.com/news/gb/china/2011/08/201108300704.shtml 8 March 2012 18 February 2012 Boxun2022-09-25 Chinese Moslems protest sexual practices book https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/05/12/Chinese-Moslems-protest-sexual-practices-book/8606610948800/ UPI 12 May 1989 Mark S. Del Vecchio However, the protester ended up rioting, where nearly 2,000 rioters overthrew cars, smashed windows and some attacked staff at a CCP office, according to government sources. The government dispatched 1,000 policemen and 1,200 armed police soldiers to disperse the crowd and arrested 173.国家利益高于一切——新疆稳定问题观察与思考 2002 Xinjiang People's Press 7-22807710-5 254 The protests were not limited to Ürümqi. Muslims all across China organized protests in 1989. In Beijing, 3,000 demonstrators from all ten Muslim ethnic groups in China marched on 12 May. In April 20,000 Muslims demonstrated in Lanzhou and up to 100,000 demonstrators came out in Xining. Smaller scale demonstrations took place in, Shanghai, Inner Mongolia, Wuhan, and Yunnan.C. Gladney Dru https://archive.org/details/muslimchineseeth0000glad Muslim Chinese - Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic Harvard University Asia Center 1991 149 3 10.2307/j.ctt1tg5gkz j.ctt1tg5gkz 978-0-674-59497-5 In response, the Chinese government banned the book, publicly burnt 95,000 copies of it in Lanzhou, and sentenced the authors to terms in jail.Harris Rachel July 2005 Wang Luobin: Folk Song King of the Northwest or Song Thief?: Copyright, Representation, and Chinese Folk Songs Modern China en 31 3 381–408 10.1177/0097700405276354 145245577 0097-7004 See also July 2009 Ürümqi riots References Category:1980s in China Category:History of Ürümqi Category:1989 riots Category:Protests in China Category:Riots and civil disorder in China Category:1989 in China Category:20th century in Xinjiang Urumqi 1989