After strenuously denying it for many months, China’s government in mid-October suddenly admitted that the Xinjiang concentration camps exist. However, it now tries to present a propaganda picture of benign “vocational training centres,” rolled out to deal with people who pose a threat to social order. At this point, we should remember that both the […]
Author Archives: Magnus Fiskesjö
After a trip to China in 1977-78, Magnus Fiskesjö studied Chinese at Lund University in his native Sweden. He's been a student of all things Chinese ever since. From 1985-88, he served as Cultural Attaché at Sweden's embassy in Beijing, and from 2000-2005 as Director of Sweden's Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, in Stockholm. Since 2005, he has taught anthropology and Asian studies at Cornell University in the US. His recent research has focused on China's forced confessions, including as practiced in the Xinjiang camps.