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Uyghur author Gulchehra Hoja: ‘We are going to bloom again’
by Sara Lang
Mar 23, 2023
3 minutes
Gulchehra Hoja grew up in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, which she calls East Turkestan, a historic name for the region. Western reporting and satellite images point to more than 1 million Uyghurs being held in internment camps (designated “reeducation” camps by China) in the area in recent years. In her book, “A Stone Is Most Precious Where it Belongs,” Ms. Hoja describes her Uyghur childhood, her career as the host of a Chinese
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