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Michael Dillon: Uyghur Identity, 5 January 2023

The Great Dispossession: Uyghurs between Civilisations 
by Ildiko Bellér Hann and Chris Hann.
Lit Verlag, 296 pp., £35, February, 978 3 643 91367 8
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How I Survived a Chinese ‘Re-education’ Camp: A Uyghur Woman’s Story 
by Gulbahar Haitiwaji and Rozenn Morgat, translated by Edward Gauvin.
Canbury, 250 pp., £18.99, February, 978 1 912454 90 7
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The Chief Witness: Escape from China’s Modern-Day Concentration Camps 
by Sayragul Sauytbay and Alexandra Cavelius, translated by Caroline Waight.
Scribe, 320 pp., £16.99, May 2021, 978 1 913348 60 1
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In the Camps: Life in China’s High-Tech Penal Colony 
by Darren Byler.
Atlantic, 152 pp., £12.99, February, 978 1 83895 592 2
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... On​ a March day in 1991, I emerged from the dark interior of the Emin Minaret in Turpan, Xinjiang, my eyes adjusting to the daylight, and saw a middle-aged couple drawing up in a horse-drawn cart. Their appearance and the dry and dusty setting was more reminiscent of the Middle East than China. Han Chinese friends and colleagues had been telling me for years how different Xinjiang was from the rest of China; Muslims were lihai, ‘fierce’, and the Uyghurs fiercest of all ...

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