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Uighuror UygurA Turkic-speaking people of Central Asia who live largely in northwestern China. About 8,000,000 Uighurs live in China today, and some 300,000 in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. They are among the oldest Turkic-speaking peoples of Central Asia, first mentioned in Chinese records from the 3rd century AD. In the 8th century they established a kingdom, which was overrun in 840. A Uighur confederacy (745–1209), established around the Tien Shan, was overthrown by the Mongols. This confederacy came to the aid of China's Tang dynasty during the An Lushan Rebellion. The Uighurs of that time professed a Manichaean faith. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In the present, we follow the careers of some of his former students--one a factory worker in the new southern boom town of Shenzhen, two others starting out as teachers--and of a man Hessler calls Polat, a disaffected Uighur from Xinjiang in the far west, living by his wits in Beijing's thriving black market, later taking off for an uncertain life in the United States. Adel and his four Uighur compatriots never received a trial during their more than four years of incarceration at Guantanamo. Chinese fears of domestic unrest were well founded, as movements within the Turkic Uighur population in Xinjiang began to actively and, in some cases, violently pursue a similar independence in establishing a new state called East Turkestan. |
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