Demolishing Kashgar's History
A vital stop on China's ancient Silk Road, the Uighur quarter of Kashgar is being demolished for "progress"
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* By Joshua Hammer in Kashgar
* Photographs by Michael Christopher Brown
The second-story rooms of the centuries-old mud-brick houses were cantilevered atop log beams and nearly touched each other across an alleyway paved with hexagonal stones. Women wearing dark veils leaned out of tiny windows. Poplar doors, painted bright blue or green and adorned with brass floral petals, stood half open--a subtle signal that the master of the house was inside. The aromas of freshly baked bread and ripe peaches wafted up from vendors' wooden carts.
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