The Shifting Sands of Xinjiang
Q. Sakamaki / Redux
The Heirs
Students at an elementary school in a Uighur community in Xinjiang play Ping-Pong. As many as 220,000 Uighur residents may be relocated as the old parts of the city are torn down.
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