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A Xinjiang Oil Worker: Personal Portraits

“You can sit down on the floor” Sam said to me, pointing to the mass-market carpet that took up almost the entire living room. We had just finished dinner and I had been wandering around this humble 5th floor apartment enjoying the cool breeze gently pushing through the windows. Two bedrooms, an office, a bathroom the size of a coat closet, a kitchen and a living room made up the small but cozy…

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New Kashgar Dress-Code Requires “All-Chinese” Look

March 11 | No Comments

A new dress code restricts the growth of a Uyghur beard for all government workers in Kashgar, a Silk Road town in China’s largest province of China. The people it affects the most are the Uyghurs, and the question everybody is asking is: Is this fair? I used to work at a summer sports camp […]

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Xinjiang Public Park (Chinese Style)

June 2 | No Comments

What the Chinese have mastered, however, is the art of enjoying a public park and it’s something that I think we as Americans can learn from.

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The Most Popular Uyghur Song in Xinjiang, China (Oynasun)

March 23 | No Comments

If you’ve spent any amount of time in Xinjiang, chances are you’ve heard this song more times than you can count. It is, in my opinion, the most popular song in Xinjiang.

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Xinjiang’s High Speed Train | Traveler’s Guide

September 7 | No Comments

In December of 2014, Xinjiang’s first high speed train was opened to the public. At the time, it only reached as far as Hami, but in 2015 it connected the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi with the Gansu capital of Lanzhou. Here’s the story of this high speed train and my experience taking it. Sitting here […]

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