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A stone is most precious where it belongs : a memoir of Uyghur exile, hope, and survival / Gulchehra Hoja.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection DS731.U4 H64 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoja, Gulchehra, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)--Biography.
- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China).
- Hoja, Gulchehra.
- Journalists--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu--Biography.
- Journalists.
- Uighur (Turkic people)--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu--Biography.
- Uighur (Turkic people).
- Uighur (Turkic people)--Crimes against--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
- Uighur (Turkic people)--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 303 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hachette Books, 2023.
- Summary:
- An award-winning Uyghur journalist based in the United States, whose own family members disappeared into concentration camps, exposes the systematic destruction of culture and human rights by the Chinese government in the East Turkestan region.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- Part I Growing up in the Uyghur homeland
- Part II A fall to earth
- Part III The seeds of disillusionment
- Part IV A new start and a new low
- Part V A sense of purpose
- Epilogue.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Keyes Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780306828843
- 0306828847
- OCLC:
- 1369803755
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