Qazhyghumar Shabdanuly
Qajyğūmar Şabdanūly | |
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| Native name | Қажығұмар Шабданұлы قاجىعۇمار شابدانۇلى |
| Born | 1925 Tansyq, East Kazakhstan Region, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | February 11, 2011 (aged 85–86) Qoqek, Tacheng Prefecture, Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China |
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| Language | Kazakh language |
Qajyğūmar Şabdanūly (Kazakh: Қажығұмар Шабданұлы, Russian: Кажигумар Шабданулы; 1925 – 11 February 2011) was a Kazakh Chinese political activist and an Kazakh-language author. For more than forty years, Qajyğūmar was imprisoned by the People's Republic of China for his political views.
Biography
Qajyğūmar was born in 1925 in the village of Tansyq in Eastern Kazakhstan, then in the Soviet Union.[1] Soon, the family fled from the 1932–1933 famine to Xinjiang.[1] Shabdanuly's problems with Chinese law began during the 1944 Xinjiang uprising.[2]
During the Cultural Revolution, Qajyğūmar participated in a nationalist Kirghiz-Kazakh Society.[1] In 1958 he was arrested and imprisoned for both "left wing" and "ultra right" political activities.[1] He was sentenced to 22 years and served if full-time in Tarim camps of the Taklamakan Desert.[1] Qajyğūmar was released in 1980, and in 1982 published the first volume of his magnum opus, Qylmys (Crime), in Ürümqi.[1] The second volume was printed in 1985.[1] The third and the fourth volumes were already set for printing when Qajyğūmar was arrested again.[1] This time he was charged with running a Kazakh separatist organization and feeding intelligence to Kazakhstan.[1] Qajyğūmar was sentenced to thirteen years and again served the full term in Ürümqi jail.[2]
The first independent edition of Qajyğūmar 's history novel Pana (Shelter) was published in Kazakhstan in 2005. Qajyğūmar's original Kazakh text was in the Arabic script, and was transcribed into Cyrillic by Qabdesh Jumadilov.[3] The first complete six-volume edition of Qylmys was printed in Almaty in 2009. In January 2010, it was nominated for Kazakh state prize in literature.[4] The nominator presented Qylmys as "a book about the colonization of the Kazakh territories, which gives a clear picture of what Kazakhs went through under the imperial pressure of China and the Soviet Union".[5] However, the government commissioners stonewalled the proposal and struck the book off the nominations' list.[6]
As of July 2010, Qajyğūmar remained under house arrest in Chuguchak.[6] Kazakh nationalist organizations advised president Nursultan Nazarbayev to demand full freedom for Qajyğūmar but, as of 2010, limited government efforts brought no result. According to Qajyğūmar's daughter Jaynar, who lives in Almaty and is a citizen of Kazakhstan, the Chinese government regularly refused to let Qajyğūmar leave the country.[1] He has five surviving adult children, four of them remain in China. According to Jaynar, her mother and her siblings in China are able to travel from China to Kazakhstan and back.[1]
See also
- Oralman, re-immigration of ethnic Kazakhs to Kazakhstan
- Kazakh exodus from Xinjiang
References
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Omirshan Abdihalykuly (2009, in Russian). Kniga 84-letnego kazakskogo ... (Книга 84-летнего казахского писателя дошла до родины, самого автора Китай не отпускает. Radio Liberty, November 24, 2009.
Abstract in English: 'The Tragic Destiny Of Kazakh People Living Abroad, Written By A Witness. Radio Liberty, November 25, 2009. - ^ a b Omirshan Abdihalykuly (2010, in Russian). Pisatel Qazhyghumar Shabdanuly ... (Писатель Кажыгумар Шабданулы стал легендой, просидев полвека в китайских тюрьмах). Radio Liberty. March 22, 2010.
- ^ Almaty hosts presentation of a book by Kazakh writer from China Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine. Kazinform. December 15, 2005.
- ^ Ethnic Kazakh Writer In China Nominated For Prize In Kazakhstan. Iran Book News Agency, January 28, 2010.
- ^ Ethnic Kazakh Writer In China Nominated For Prize In Kazakhstan. Radio Liberty, January 27, 2010.
- ^ a b Omirshan Abdihalykuly (2010, in Russian). Kazaksky pisatel-dissident ... (Казахский писатель-диссидент в Китае премию Астаны не получит). Radio Liberty. July 21, 2010.