Summary of Nury Turkel's No Escape

Download or read book Summary of Nury Turkel's No Escape written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-07-17T22:59:00Z with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I have lived in Washington, DC, as a free Uyghur for more than twenty years. I have not seen my mother since 2004. I have been able to spend only eleven months with my parents since I left China twenty-seven years ago. #2 I was born in 1970 in a Communist labor camp in Kashgar, China. My mother was imprisoned for having relatives in a hostile country, and I was malnourished because my mother was malnourished. Between the tiny cracks in the boarded-up window, my mother could just steal glimpses of Kashgar, a city that was already a trading post on the Silk Road two thousand years ago. #3 My father came from the town of Ghulja in the north, near the border with Kazakhstan, a more European part of the country. He was the son of a famous Uyghur dancer, and he had been brought by authorities to Kashgar as part of a move to integrate Uyghur intellectuals from the north into the ancient city of Kashgar. #4 I was a studious kid. I read a lot, and I played soccer and ran in my spare time. I didn’t want to join the Chinese elite, and I wanted to be free and live with respect and dignity.