Bahram Rahimjan, a Uygur student of art, dreams big. With 17 months to go before sitting the gaokao, China’s national college entrance examination, he said his dream school is the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, more than 3,000 km from his hometown.
“Painting makes me happy,” he said while honing his skills at his school in Cocodala, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China. He said he is interested in rediscovering Uygur culture
