Football plays a vital role in establishing a sense of identity for the Uyghur people This piece was written by Henryk Szadziewski for issue 10 in 2013 Some time in the 1920s — accounts vary — students from the small village of Artush in what is now China’s far west played a game of football against a team put together by the staff of the British Consulate in the nearby Silk Road city of Kashgar. At the time, Kashgar was strategically important …
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