Culture | Xinjiang blues
Two new books shed light on the plight of the Uyghurs
Darren Byler documents life inside the prison camps. James Millward considers the repression as part of a broader history
In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony. By Darren Byler. Columbia Global Reports; 159 pages; $15.99. To be published in Britain in February by Atlantic Books; £12.99
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