A Stone is Most Precious Where It Belongs

A Memoir of Uyghur Loss, Exile and Hope

A Stone is Most Precious Where It Belongs
Gulchehra Hoja
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h234 x 153mm - 320pg
21 Feb 2023 UK
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9780349015965
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A powerful and urgent memoir by Uyghur activist Gulchehra Hoja - a remarkable woman who went from being a beloved star on Chinese children' s TV to a journalist whose reporting on the oppression of her people led to her entire extended family being imprisoned. A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Loss, Exile and Hope is the first major book to describe the fate of the Uyghur people. In it, Gulchehra describes her journey towards the truth about Uyghur life under Chinese rule in East Turkistan - from her early life, to her success as a television star; and her revelation of the reality about Communist rule; her flight to the US; and then, the fight of her life: to expose Beijing' s terrible crimes against her people. Gulchehra Hoja is an extraordinary person, a woman who was willing to give up everything for her people. Her memoir takes us far beyond what the Chinese state wants the world to see, to reveal the beauty of East Turkistan and the ancient culture of its people.
Gulchehra Hoja is a Uyghur journalist based in Washington, DC and one of the world' s most prominent voices fighting what the US government in January 2021 officially proclaimed the "genocide and crimes against humanity" against the Uyghurs. Her reporting on the situation in Xinjiang for Radio Free Asia - which led to the incarceration of her entire extended family - has been widely recognized in the US and Europe, and led to honors such as the 2019 Magnitsky Human Rights Award; the Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women' s Media Foundation in 2020; her recognition as one of the "500 most influential Muslims" in the world every year since 2016; and a platform at Tina Brown' s Women in the World summit and the Oslo Freedom Forum. She has been profiled for the Washington Post and Financial Times, among many other publications. Working closely with larger publications such as the New York Times and Guardian, as well as directly with the State Department, she has also been central to bringing to light both the stories of escapees from East Turkistan' s concentration camps, and exposing China' s use of Uyghurs for forced labour in their cotton and wig-making industries.
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ISBN-13: 9780349015965
Published: 21 Feb 2023
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Virago Press
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 41g
Pages: 320

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