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CHINA
Along China’s Silk Road
These photographs were taken primary in what is now politically western China, the
Xinjiang area from Urmuchi, Turpan and Kashgar. This area is traditionally Central
Asia, populated by the Uyghurs who are a Turkic people with their own language,
traditions and architecture. Since I had lived in Afghanistan I found this a fascinating
and photogenic region. Unfortunately neither English nor Russian, nor the smattering of
Persian I retain were of help in talking to most people there. It made me wish I’d learned
Turkish.