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“Our muqams will endure for millennia”
I came across the video below of Uyghur musicians on Twitter and thought I’d translate the Chinese in the caption to share its powerful message:
We are Uyghurs, our muqams will endure for millennia;
We will not disappear, we will continue dreaming of autonomy;
Today we have instruments in our hands, tomorrow the firearms of uprising;
As long as our music is still here, the Uyghur spirit is still alive;
The gray wolf opens the path ahead, the blue star and crescent flag leads the way; East Turkestan will be liberated!
我們是維吾爾人，延續著木卡姆的千年傳承；
— Ilshat H. Kokbore 伊利夏提 (@HKokbore) September 7, 2020
我們不會消失，我們繼續著獨立自由的夢想；
今天我們手裡是樂器，明天將是驅趕侵略者的火器；
只要我們的歌聲還在，維吾爾的精神就在；
灰狼在前開路，星月藍旗引路；東突厥斯坦必然光復！ pic.twitter.com/OAv5YGYDf0
If you know of any non-Han or Chinese ethnic minority writers who publish in Chinese, particularly speculative fiction, please let me know—I would love to amplify their voices into the anglophone world.