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- Kashgar, ruins as playground.
- Kashgar, door left locked...
- Kashgar, recycling equipment.
- Kashgar, www...
- Hotan, siesta along the Taklamakan desert.
- Kashgar, relics of an interior.
- Kashgar, still standing... not for long.
- Tashkorgan, last "chinese" town on the Karakoram highway before the Pakistan border.
- Kashgar, lost...
- Tashkorgan with the Tajik mountains behind.
- Tashkorgan, on the borders of Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Pakistan.
- Kashgar, new angle...
- Kashgar, livestock market.
Farewell Xinjiang
The chinese government has initiated in 2009 a large scale of a so called »Redevelopment Program » in all Xinjiang province.
This program consists in demolishing traditional mud-brick constructions in order to replace them with concrete based constructions and as well to reorganize the few traditional Uyghur and Tajik labyrinthine historical districts still standing. The main argument used by the government is that these houses standing perfectly since centuries are dangerous in case of earthquake…
The result is the disappearance of cultural specificities, community neighborhood life in the line of Beijing’s deletion aim of non Han cultures in China.
These photographs have been shot in 2011.
© 2012 Samih Güven – All rights reserved.
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