Category Archives: Published Books

Uyghur Nation

This work on the Uyghurs, a 10-million strong Turkic Muslim minority residing mainly in Xinjiang in western China, is a welcome contribution to a recent rise in Uyghur studies…A remarkable account of a people searching for identity at the intersection of empire. (M. Chakars Choice) Nothing I have read in the last fifteen years comes close…

China’s Forgotten People: Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State

‘As someone who has extensively travelled in the region for 15 years, Holdstock’s book gives us a rare glimpse into the land and its people, and how the policies of the Chinese state have led to an extreme sense of alienation among the Uighurs, with some of them turning to radical steps and violence.’ (Gulf…