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4) The art of symbolic resistance: Uyghur identities and Uyghur-Han relations in contemporary Xinjiang
Author
Series
Brill's Inner Asian library volume 30
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Author
Series
China studies volume Volume 30
Publisher
Koninklijke Brill
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning Uyghur journalist based in the United States, whose own family members disappeared into concentration camps, exposes the systematic destruction of culture and human rights by the Chinese government in the East Turkestan region.
Author
Series
Publisher
UNO Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Through a series of interviews with novelist Adam Braver and scholar Ashley Barton, Jewher recounted her fathers nightmare and her own transition from student to eloquent advocate for the Uyghur people. The resulting book, Jewher Ilham: A Uyghurs Fight to Free Her Father , is an intimate, exclusive portrait that U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown calls proof that Jewher and her people will not be silenced.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A powerful memoir by Nury Turkel lays bare China's repression of the Uyghur people. Turkel is cofounder and board chair of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. In recent years, the People's Republic of China has rounded up as many as three million Uyghurs, placing them in what it calls "reeducation camps," facilities most of the world identifies as concentration camps....
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Born in 1966 in Ghulja in the Xinjiang region, Gulbahar Haitiwaji was an executive in the Chinese oil industry before leaving for France in 2006 with her husband and children, who obtained the status of political refugees. In 2017 she was summoned in China for an administrative issue. Once there, she was arrested and spent more than two years in a re-education camp. Thanks to the efforts of her family and the French foreign ministry she was freed...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide. One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth...
Author
Publisher
New Friday , of Lev Gleason
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Zumrat Dawut is a mother of three in the Xinjiang autonomous region in China, who was arrested and sent to a detention facility for simply being a Muslim. There, she endured brutal living conditions, torture, interrogations, anti-Muslim propaganda, and sterilization. But that was just the beginning of Zumrat?s troubles, who with her husband would soon hatch a plan to escape to America" --back cover.