The text was ready by 2015, but the crackdown on Uyghurs living in China’s far western region of Xinjiang left him concerned for Tursun, and for his Uyghur co-translator. Publishing the book in ...

The name Xinjiang was slapped on the Uyghur homeland in 1884, after its conquest by China’s last imperial dynasty. Located in the vastness of Central Asia, closer to Kashmir than Beijing ...

The book is ostensibly a story about Izgil’s life—from his time growing up in his native Xinjiang, the northwestern region of China where the predominantly Muslim Uyghur minority hails ...

The book, he said, revealed “the paradoxes and ... Izgil made intricate character studies of the low-level Uyghur officials enforcing China’s policies. There was Güljan, a young woman who ...

Uyghur Language Day matters, not just as celebration, but as defiance of the attempt to extinguish our civilization.

Moving companies also began to send him Uyghur books that tenants had left behind in their apartments. People travelling between China and Turkey also started to deliver volumes. Finally ...

Part of the problem is China has arrested or detained nearly all of the Uyghur intellectuals who might have written, translated or published these works for a broader audience. Reading this book ...

FENG: He's talking about his new memoir. The book of prose is a departure for the celebrated Uyghur poet and filmmaker. IZGIL: (Through interpreter) In truth, a book like this should never have ...

Written in Ürümchi in 1990–1991. Revised in Ürümchi in 2005. Typed in Beijing and finished at 9 p.m. on February 15, 2006. Revised version finalized in Ürümchi at 12:30 a.m. on March 7, 2015.

Eli the ponytailed bookseller has run out of Uyghur books to sell. The novelist Perhat Tursun is there, wearily chain-smoking, his passport forever revoked. Foreign countries, he grumbles ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — As the Chinese government tightened its grip over its ethnic Uyghur population, it sentenced one man to death and three others to life in prison last year for textbooks ...

“There are no bookstores like this anywhere in the world, not even in weten,” said Mr Turkistanli, 50, using the Uyghur word for “homeland”. Treasured book rests on map of Uyghur homeland ...