http://www.incendiaryimage.com/sketchbook/no-internet-xinjiang/ Cairo, Egypt photographer working on photojournalism in the Middle East. Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:49:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.incendiaryimage.com/sketchbook/no-internet-xinjiang/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Dick Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:16:32 +0000 http://www.incendiaryimage.com/sketchbook/?p=255#comment-44 Like many people outside China, I too have been unable to contact many friends in Xinjiang since July. I have a very special friend there who I have only been able to contact through a mutual friend who lives in another province, but this is clumsy and unwieldy. One feels completely powerless. I know that many people in the town I lived in used the internet as we do in the 'west', and they too would be feeling the difference from pre-July. But we all get used to new routines, and life goes on. I miss the contact, but write normal letters instead, but I don't know if they are receiving them. Just hope that the gov't opens up soon. Like many people outside China, I too have been unable to contact many friends in Xinjiang since July. I have a very special friend there who I have only been able to contact through a mutual friend who lives in another province, but this is clumsy and unwieldy. One feels completely powerless. I know that many people in the town I lived in used the internet as we do in the ‘west’, and they too would be feeling the difference from pre-July. But we all get used to new routines, and life goes on. I miss the contact, but write normal letters instead, but I don’t know if they are receiving them. Just hope that the gov’t opens up soon.

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