title | authors | translator | course | tags | year | olid | oclc | publisher | address | pages | |||||
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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide |
|
Joshua Freeman |
china |
|
2023 |
OL49765438M |
1350876952 |
Penguin |
New York |
251 |
With the restoration of my old ID number, the previous six years of my life, including the three years I spent in prison, became a numberless life. In truth, this was a blessing for me. I believe that the record of my punishment and imprisonment had been wiped from the police system. Networked computers had not yet been widely adopted.
The true story of how a Uyghur poet and film director narrowly managed to escape a genocide—and of the friends and family that he left behind.