Xinjiangcun () or Xinjiang Village was an
ethnic enclave
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of
Uyghur people
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in the
Ganjiakou
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and
Weigongcun areas in
Haidian District,
Beijing
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. The Beijing government demolished the settlement in 1999. It is in proximity to a historical Uyghur enclave in Beijing.
History
In the mid-1990s the community had over 40 restaurants due to a rise in popularity of ethnic cuisine. The Uyghurs of a higher socioeconomic position opened restaurants. Other Uyghurs sold barbecued mutton from stalls.
In 1999 the Beijing municipal government demolished the settlement. The government's explanation was that it would help reform Beijing into a city that would serve as a model and that it would help prevent illegal street vending. In 2001 Nimrod Baranovitch, author of "Inverted Exile: Uyghur Writers and Artists in Beijing and the Political Implications of Their Work," wrote that Uyghur workers in the remaining parts of the Xinjiangcun stated that they did not want to go back to Xinjiang because they feared retaliation for being involved in political activities.
[Baranovitch, p. 463.]
Baranovitch wrote that by 2005 a new "Xinjiangcun" opened near the
Beijing West railway station.
[Baranovitch, p. 497. "In the 1980s Uyghurs established in Beijing two “Xinjiang villages,” one in Ganjiakou and one in Weigongcun; both were demolished in the late 1990s. ..n 2005, I was informed that a new Xinjiang village had recently been established in Beijing near the Western Train Station, and that many Uyghurs live today in the Hui Muslim quarter on Niujie (Ox Street)."]
See also
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Uyghur people in Beijing
*
Zhejiangcun Zhejiang ( "Zhejiang Village") was a community of migrant workers around the Nanyuan- Dahongmen area, within Fengtai District, Beijing. These workers originated from Zhejiang, with most of them from Wenzhou.Liu, Xiaoli and Liang Wei, p. 98.Michael ...
References
* Baranovitch, Nimrod (
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Modern China
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. October 2007 33: 462-504, doi: 10.1177/0097700407304803
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