Adam Grode ’05 is living and teaching English in Xinjiang in the western region of China, where Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese were clashing. He was quoted in a July 5, 2009, article in the New York Times about riots in his neighborhood. “This is just crazy,” Grode was quoted in the article. “There was a lot of tear gas in the streets, and I almost couldn’t get back to my apartment. There’s a huge police presence.” As a Watson Fellow, Grode studied longed-neck lutes in Central Asia in 2005 and 2006. The following year, he received a Fulbright grant to extend his studies of the musical traditions of the Uighurs in Xinjiang.
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