A stone is most precious where it belongs a memoir of Uyghur exile, hope, and survival
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.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Hachette Books,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 303 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780306828843 0306828847 |
| Author Notes: | Gulchehra Hoja is a Uyghur journalist based in the United States. Her reporting on the situation in East Turkestan (commonly known as the Xinjiang Autonomous Province) for Radio Free Asia - which led to the incarceration of her entire extended family - has been widely recognized in the US and Europe. She has earned honors such as the 2019 Magnitsky Human Rights Award; the Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation in 2020; recognition as one of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world every year since 2016; and multiple appearances at the Oslo Freedom Forum since 2020. She has been profiled for The Washington Post and The Financial Times , among many other publications. |
