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Terms and conditions applyKashgar: Oasis City on China's Old Silk Road
George Michell, Marika Vicziany and Yen Hu Tsui
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Format: Book
Pages: 159
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Date Published: Apr 2010
Stock Code: 72340
ISBN: 9780711229136
Binding: Hardback
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Four thousand kilometers from Beijing, and over one thousand 500 kilometers from the regional capital Urumqi, Kashgar is one of the most remote cities in the world. But until the early twentieth century it was known as the 'pivot' of central Asia, a key cog in the 'great game', and before that one of the principal way stations on the Silk Road.
Today it remains one of the most complete historical urban centers in China and its celebrated Sunday Market is one of the most vibrant in central Asia. Still traditionally Muslim it is nonetheless home to countless migrants, and one of the most cosmopolitan cities in China.
Now for the first time its history and character are celebrated in the photographs of one of Australia's most highly regarded photographers, accompanied by a deeply informed but readable text by two leading architectural and archeological students of the region, with a Chinese colleague.
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A lucidly written text on the history of the city, the Uighurs and their beliefs and practices, and the impact of urbanism and modernisation, this remarkable work has colour photographs of surpassing excellence.
Steppe
One of the most historic cities in Central Asia, Kashgar certainly merits a fine picture book. The city is crammed with photogenic subjects: the Uighur people, their dress, food, donkey carts, houses, mosques and cemeteries. John Gollings has done them justice.
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