Somewhere in the Web: Uyghur Identity
Michael Dillon, 5 January 2023
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...
