Summary of Nury Turkel's No Escape

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#1 I have lived in Washington, DC, as a free Uyghur for more than twenty years. I have not seen my mother since 2004. I have been able to spend only eleven months with my parents since I left China twenty-seven years ago.

#2 I was born in 1970 in a Communist labor camp in Kashgar, China. My mother was imprisoned for having relatives in a hostile country, and I was malnourished because my mother was malnourished. Between the tiny cracks in the boarded-up window, my mother could just steal glimpses of Kashgar, a city that was already a trading post on the Silk Road two thousand years ago.

#3 My father came from the town of Ghulja in the north, near the border with Kazakhstan, a more European part of the country. He was the son of a famous Uyghur dancer, and he had been brought by authorities to Kashgar as part of a move to integrate Uyghur intellectuals from the north into the ancient city of Kashgar.

#4 I was a studious kid. I read a lot, and I played soccer and ran in my spare time. I didn’t want to join the Chinese elite, and I wanted to be free and live with respect and dignity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822544352

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I have lived in Washington, DC, as a free Uyghur for more than twenty years. I have not seen my mother since 2004. I have been able to spend only eleven months with my parents since I left China twenty-seven years ago.

#2

I was born in 1970 in a Communist labor camp in Kashgar, China. My mother was imprisoned for having relatives in a hostile country, and I was malnourished because my mother was malnourished. Between the tiny cracks in the boarded-up window, my mother could just steal glimpses of Kashgar, a city that was already a trading post on the Silk Road two thousand years ago.

#3

My father came from the town of Ghulja in the north, near the border with Kazakhstan, a more European part of the country. He was the son of a famous Uyghur dancer, and he had been brought by authorities to Kashgar as part of a move to integrate Uyghur intellectuals from the north into the ancient city of Kashgar.

#4

I was a studious kid. I read a lot, and I played soccer and ran in my spare time. I didn’t want to join the Chinese elite, and I wanted to be free and live with respect and dignity.

#5

The 1980s saw a cultural renaissance for the Uyghurs. They were allowed to develop their region, and tourists began visiting the area. They even restored the crumbling mausoleums of medieval Uyghur leaders and scholars.

#6

I had a dream of America, and in 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. I began to lose interest in staying in China, and I was envious of the Turkic republics that had gained their freedom. I thought that the end of the Soviet Union might presage the end of China’s Communist Party.

#7

I was trying to