| "Kashgar is the Westernmost city of China, where there is a fabulous Sunday market--shown in these several photographs. The market is one of the few places where the old Uighur way of life has survived the invasion of Chineseness. From the book: '...so much of the atmosphere of Kashgar has resulted from pure Sinification: the broad arrow-straight avenues to the "national Defense" base guarded by People's Liberation Army soldiers standing at attention, their bayonets fixed; the socialist-Bauhaus architecture; the office of the party committee; the cement rectangles where the Chinese immigrants live.'From Kashgar I took a jeep to the Torugart Pass and the border with Kyrgyzstan. The photgraph shows the road leading to the actual border marker. I was dropped off there by a Tajik guide named Luyik and met on the other side by one Sasha, speaking Russian." |
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