Tag: Uyghur
A Letter to the Uyghurs in Xinjiang
A Han Chinese writes an open letter to his Uyghur friends in Xinjiang.
China’s Uyghurs
What You Need to Know
A brief but instructive history from the Oxford Research Encyclopedia.
Urumqi!
I have been to Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region twice. The first time was in 1992; a teammate and I took the train. Back then it was a journey that took two days and three nights; today the fastest train makes the journey in 30 hours. On my second visit to Urumqi (in 2004) I also travelled by train, but from the southern Xinjiang city of Kashgar. That was a 24-hour run along the edge of the Taklimakan Desert.