Published: September 20th, 2023,
Last updated: September 20th, 2023
The visit of a group of sinologists to Xinjiang continues to cause uproar among German sinologists. In an opinion piece for Table.Media on Monday, emeritus professors Thomas Heberer and Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer explained their motivations and the circumstances of their trip to the region, and how their controversial article in the NZZ, in which they noted a „normalization“ of life in Xinjiang, came about.