Street scenes, portraits, people at work, a classroom, children: this is powerful and poignant record of Kashgar as it used to be. All the photographs were taken in 1998, on the cusp of sweeping modernisation and the imminent crackdown in Xinjiang province. Dual language text English/Uyghur.
The Uyghurs: Kashgar Before the Catastrophe
£50.00
Edition:Hardback978193808699115/05/2023
Categories: 17. Books For Christmas 2023: Travel, Books For Christmas 2023, History, Photography & Fashion, Travel
Tags: Central Asia, China
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