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When Chinese tourists come to Xinjiang the International Grand Bazaar of Xinjiang is the main attraction. It's a large mall with decorative minarets. Uighurs are hired to dance, sell melons and trinkets to the tourists.

When Chinese tourists come to Xinjiang the International Grand Bazaar of Xinjiang is the main attraction. It’s a large mall with decorative minarets. Uighurs are hired to dance, sell melons and trinkets to the tourists.

When Chinese tourists come to Xinjiang the International Grand Bazaar of Xinjiang is the main attraction. It’s a large mall with decorative minarets. Uighurs are hired to dance, sell melons and trinkets to the tourists.

Locks hung by couples on a fence in a park above Urumqi. Some have names inscribed in the distinctive Uighur script while some have names inscribed in Chinese. This particular lock has the name in UIghur, the date in Chinese, and the numbers in English.
Breakfast is cooked on a corncob fueled stove of a small village near Jinan in Eastern China. Many of the Chinese immigrants to Xinjiang come from rural coastal areas like this with hopes of making a new and better life.

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