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Can A Cartoon Muslim Princess Soothe China’s Ethnic Tensions?

ISSUES Posted: August 29, 2014 12:15 am

That seems to be what the government hopes, since it has commissioned a 104-episode series about a ten-year-old Uighur princess who works with her Han and Kazakh friends to free her captive father. Problem is, the folk character on which she’s based is seen very differently by Uighurs (who call her Iparhan) and Han Chinese (who know her as “the Fragrant Concubine”).

ISSUES Published: 08.26.14

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 08.26.14

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