culturacide

Being in Tibet and in Urumqi in the 1990s—I was in Urumqi six, seven years ago—how different is it today, in your opinion? What I saw was not just modernization. I saw the cultural shift, or the culturacide, if you may, in both places.

2009 October 7, Tim Walz, quotee, Human Rights and the Rule of Law in China: Hearing Before the Congressional-Executive Commission of China, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, First Session, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published 2010, page 20

As Jolene Rickard observes, Indigenous artists “have densely packed cultural survival kits that transfer knowledge from one generation to the next, despite unremitting attempts at genocide, culturacide, and other forms of political and philosophical erasure.[…]”

2012, Christine Lalonde, quoting Vision, Space, Desire: Global Perspectives and Cultural Hybridity, “The Insight of Continuity: Elisapee Ishulutag and Gavavau Manumie”, in Jonathan Shaughnessy, editor, Builders: Canadian Biennial 2012, National Gallery of Canada, →ISBN, page 29

It was through research into these empty spaces and untold stories of the district’s forgotten histories that we were able to recognize tendencies of genocide, “culturacide,” removal and resistance to these forces that span from the 17th century until the present.

2016, “Mission Y2K?”, in John Jota Leaños, archived from the original on 14 Oct 2016

In 213 BC, Qin Shih Huang lit China’s first bonfire of books, followed by a live-burial of writers, (Zhang Jie, p179), barely a year after the following proscription: […] This proscription is still being posted in some language on Earth. Some Dear Leader, natural culturacide, will take heart.

2022, Wong May, In the Same Light: 200 Tang Poems for Our Century, Carcanet Poetry, →ISBN, section 44