Waiting to be arrested at night : a Uyghur poet's memoir of China's genocide
Izgil, Tahir Hamut, 1969-2024
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If you took an Uber in Washington DC a few years ago, there's a chance your driver was one of the greatest living Uyghur poets, and one of only a handful from his minority Muslim community to escape the genocide being visited upon his homeland in western China. A successful filmmaker, innovative poet and prominent intellectual, Tahir Hamut Izgil had long been acquainted with state surveillance and violence, having spent three years in a labour camp on fabricated charges. But in 2017, the Chinese government's repression of its Uyghur citizens assumed a terrifying new intensity. As Izgil's friends disappeared one by one, it became clear that fleeing the country was his family's only hope. Escape to America spared Izgil's family the internment camps that have swallowed over a million Uyghurs. It also allowed this rare personal testimony of the Xinjiang genocide to reach the wider world.
Main title:
Waiting to be arrested at night : a Uyghur poet's memoir of China's genocide / Tahir Hamut Izgil ; translation and introduction by Joshua L. Freeman.
Author:
Izgil, Tahir Hamut, 1969-, authorFreeman, Joshua L., translator
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2024.
Collation:
272 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Uighur.This translation originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2023.
ISBN:
9781529922752 (pbk)
Dewey class:
305.8943230092305.894B-IZG
LC class:
DS731.U4
Language:
EnglishUigur
Subject:
Izgil, Tahir Hamut, 1969- -- Travel -- United StatesUighur (Turkic people) -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu -- Social conditions -- 21st centuryGenocide -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur ZizhiquState-sponsored terrorism -- ChinaUighur (Turkic people) -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu -- Ethnic identitySociety
BRN:
3930636
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