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Uyghur restaurant. *** General Caption *** A journey in the remote Chinese province of Xinjiang, a Uyghur people majority and Muslim religion, who suffer by years the helped or forced colonizing by dominant and governing Han ethno. Bordering with seven Muslim countries, Xinjiang is the Chinese wedge in the deep Asia. Essential geopolitically, the Xinjiang hide oil deposits which nobody knows exactly how really vast are. Descending from Genghis Khan, Turkmen origin, the Uyghur in the early 90ís tried a low revolt against the discrimination of the central Han power government. The autonomy dream was immediately stamp out. Although there are very few trace of the autonomy dreams, the central power hand do not give up at all. Recent Afghan matters helped the government to justify their pression on this people for their religious faith. The few places of Uyghur pride are the mosque and the shrine tomb of a holy man who lived in the 14th century. Anyway for those who works for the government ìitís betterî if do not use to go to the mosque. The Uyghurs now are just waiting for the bright development that it seems has hit China; they hope it could be help them as well. The cities are changing deeply, in a landscape were you could find a classic Istanbul tea house, and it could not be so strange, it is going easy to find the anonymous huge classic Chinese block of flats. These two screenplays live together in a harsh contrast, indifferent each other, as Uyghur and Han people at last.

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Uyghur restaurant. *** General Caption *** A journey in the remote Chinese province of Xinjiang, a Uyghur people majority and Muslim religion, who suffer by years the helped or forced colonizing by dominant and governing Han ethno. Bordering with seven Muslim countries, Xinjiang is the Chinese wedge in the deep Asia. Essential geopolitically, the Xinjiang hide oil deposits which nobody knows exactly how really vast are. Descending from Genghis Khan, Turkmen origin, the Uyghur in the early 90ís tried a low revolt against the discrimination of the central Han power government. The autonomy dream was immediately stamp out. Although there are very few trace of the autonomy dreams, the central power hand do not give up at all. Recent Afghan matters helped the government to justify their pression on this people for their religious faith. The few places of Uyghur pride are the mosque and the shrine tomb of a holy man who lived in the 14th century. Anyway for those who works for the government ìitís betterî if do not use to go to the mosque. The Uyghurs now are just waiting for the bright development that it seems has hit China; they hope it could be help them as well. The cities are changing deeply, in a landscape were you could find a classic Istanbul tea house, and it could not be so strange, it is going easy to find the anonymous huge classic Chinese block of flats. These two screenplays live together in a harsh contrast, indifferent each other, as Uyghur and Han people at last.