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Jewher Ilham, Adam Braver (Editor), Ashley Barton (Editor) When Jewher Ilham's father, Ilham Toti, was detained at the Beijing airport in February 2013 on charges of "separatism," Jewher had two she could stay in…[...]
Güljanat Kurmangaliyeva Ercilasun (Editor) This book analyses the Uyghur community, presenting a brief historical background of the Uyghurs and debating the challenges of emerging Uyghur nationalism in the early 20 th…[...]
Ilham Tohti The words of China’s most famous political prisoner In Xinjiang, the large northwest region of China, the government has imprisoned more than a million Uyghurs in re-education camps.…[...]
Gulchehra Hoja The extraordinary memoir of a woman who gave up everything to help her people In February 2018, twenty-four members of Gulchehra Hoja's family disappeared overnight. Her crime -…[...]
Nury Turkel Shortlisted for the Moore Prize on Human Rights Literature* A powerful memoir by Nury Turkel that lays bare China’s repression of the Uyghur people. Turkel is cofounder and…[...]
Darren Byler 4.29 Good Reads Community Review 894 ratings159 reviews How China built a network of surveillance to detain over a million people and produce a system of control previously unknown in…[...]
Justin Jon Rudelson The rising tide of ethnic nationalism that has swept across Central Asia in the past decade has energized efforts by the Chinese government to win favor among…[...]
Josanne La Valley 464 ratings95 reviews Things aren’t looking good for fourteen-year-old Mehrigul. She yearns to be in school, but she’s needed on the family farm. The longer she’s out of school,…[...]