Color is the touch of the eye, music to the deaf, a word out of the prejudice and darkness. The colors of Xinjiang have nagged at travelers, scholars, artists for eons, and now they are beauty made manifest, reflecting the truth and stories of its vast land and multi-ethnic people.
Memtimin Ghopur’s ancestral house in Hotan is 200 years old. (People’s Daily Online/ Kou Jie) The first flush of dawn has fallen over Memtimin Ghopur’s 200-year-old ancestral house, and with the gilded coral light comes the enchanted glamour that belongs to a distinguished family that has been practicing traditional Uyghur medicine for eight generations.
Nuradli Wublikas is at work. Photo: Courtesy to Nuradli Wublikas Nuradli Wublikas, a young Uygur man from Kashi of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is seeking to sue Australian think tank Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) for its report on the so-called forced labor in China's Xinjiang, as the ASPI report has hurt the image of the Uygur group and undermines their employment opportunities.
Li Nana, a cotton farmer, tends to her cotton field in Shihezi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, June 1, 2021. (People's Daily Online/Kou Jie) Shihezi, about 150 km northwest of Urumqi, is a young city established in the 1950s in the Junggar Basin of northern Xinjiang.
