One Aspect of China's Brutal Crackdown Against Uyghurs Is Reflected in the Fate of Mr

One aspect of China's brutal crackdown against Uyghurs is reflected in the fate of Mr. Yalqun Rozi, a renowned literary critic, writer, public speaker, and publisher. Mr.Yalqun Rozi was born in Aghu village of Artux on March 4th, 1966. Yalqun Rozi graduated from Xinjiang University Department of Literature in 1987 and worked as a journalist in Xinjiang Radio Station upon graduation. From 1991 till 2015, he worked as an editor in the Xinjiang education press. His contribution to the revival of Uyghur society in general and on Uyghur culture and education, in particular, can be summarized to the following points: 1. Yalqun Rozi started his career life as a literary critic from 1986 and published more than 60 critiques. With solid logical structure, sharp thinking, resoluteness, rich critical spirit, unorthodox views, compelling arguments of his works, he soon became known in Uyghur literature world as an impartial critic with strong character. 2. Yalqun Rozi started writing social commentaries since 1995 and published more than 30 social commentaries. His social commentaries are characteristic of offering unexpected issues, generating hot topics, and raising waves of arguments. He is known as a social commentator with a strong critical consciousness. 3. Yalqun Rozi is the most authoritative researcher on Uyghur jadidisim movement. He has conducted in-depth research on the Jadids and Jadidism, which was a movement of reform among Muslim intellectuals in Central Asia at the beginning of the 20th century. He wrote books and articles about several famous Uyghur Jadids such as Musabayev Brothers, Abdulkadir Damolla, Mehsut Muhiti, Mr. Memtili, and Gülendam Abistay and their efforts on modernizing the industrial and educational system, and bringing enlightenment for Uyghurs. 4. Yalqun Rozi is also one of the most successful public speakers among Uyghurs. Since the mid-1990s, Yalqun Rozi gave more than a hundred lectures and speeches at literature seminars, schools, universities, and on television and radios. Topics of his lectures and speeches include educational and curriculum reform, literature education, literary criticism, social morality, and family education. 5. Yalqun Rozi's other main contribution to Uyghur education is well displayed in his work of compiling and editing Uyghur literature textbooks. From 2001 to 2011, Yalqun Rozi spent ten years of his life to focus on compiling Uyghur literature textbooks and directly involved with the compiling of 12 textbooks to be used in Uyghur middle school and high schools across the region. He also independently compiled four extra- curricular humanities reading books for middle school students and nine teaching manual books for literature teachers. He also compiled a "College Literature" textbook. He also was the chief editor of more than 90 textbooks and extra-curricular books about Uyghur literature education. He gave several dozen lectures for Uyghur elementary and middle school literature teachers in various prefectures, counties, and cities across the Uyghur region. 6. Yalqun Rozi is not only an accomplished writer but also a successful publisher. He planned and published around 20 excellent books about religion and history, culture and education, politics, and politicians. Most of these books are the works of Abdushukur Muhammad Emin and Eset Sulayman, both famous Uyghur scholars. The books he chose to publish had particularly positive influences on the way of thinking, world view, and ideas of the readers. The list of the names of these books include: Ancient Central Asia, Nine maxims on the silk road, The soul buried under Taklamakan, Uyghur Totem Culture, The mystery of Krorän, International Islamic Wave, Islamism in current times, Questions and answers on Islam, Arab-Islam Philosophy in today's world, The history of the rising of Jews, Mustafa Kemal, etc. .

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