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Category Archives: 喀什
Bleak
I need to spend a single night at the airport hotel in Ürümqi before catching my morning flight back to Xi’an and thence to Shanghai. The hotel was massive, the surveillance ubiquitous, and the architecture distinctly Sino-Authoritarian. Looking out my window … Continue reading
Bourgeois III
Security at the Kashgar airport was insane. To get into the ticketing area, you had to show ID and undergo the most thorough pat-down I’ve ever been subjected to. Crazy long lines, stretching outside into the freezing cold. Then another … Continue reading
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Juxtaposition
I thought this image from Kashi was telling: remnants of the city’s ancient wall, surrounded by razor wire and with a surveillance camera perched on top.
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Common
Ah. A hospital for “common people” rather than, say, Cedars-Sinai.
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Apples
“Chiken” is “chicken,” I assume. But wait, do they feed the apples to the chicken? Is it like food for chickens or is it human food that’s a mix of apples & chicken but with double the amount of expected apples … Continue reading
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Fashion
Throughout Asia, I’ve seen some pretty absurd things written in English on clothes. Misspellings. Mangled grammar. Embarrassingly unintended vulgarities. But I have a real about not taking pictures of people without their permission and I’m always reluctant to ask people … Continue reading
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Silk III
Remember this thing? The Colosseum tchotchke I bought in Rome? The one made in China? I had an idea. I brought the mini-Colosseum with me to Xinjiang. Now, I think of myself as a Romantic. And I do things other people wouldn’t … Continue reading
Livestock
The farther away from the cosmopolitan center of Shanghai and the deeper into the remote parts of China that I venture, the more I have to rely on my Mandarin. But sometimes, my Mandarin fails me. This was such a … Continue reading
Bazaar
Lying, as it does, at an important crossroad of the Silk Road, Kashgar’s Sunday Market is legendary, providing a hub for over two thousand years where goods could be traded between East and West. It is sprawling. Absolutely sprawling. It makes the … Continue reading
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Landscape
I call this one “Blackbirds in Tree with Smokestack and Cooling Tower.”
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Concubine
The Chinese word for “concubine” is 妃子 (fēizi). Eli & I only learned this because it comes up so often in Chinese soap operas. There is a famous story from the Qing Dynasty about one of Emperor Qianlong‘s consorts who was … Continue reading
Dream
Saw this sign on a street divider. It reads 中国梦，我的梦 (Zhōngguó mèng, wǒ de mèng meaning “China’s dream, my dream”) It’s quite poetic & beautiful. If you take it at face value.
Minarets II
At the heart of Kashgar is the Id Kah Mosque, the largest mosque in China (although I actually found it less impressive than the mosque in Xining.) Yet another caravan of camel statues. That little kid standing on the far left … Continue reading
Façade
I visited Kashgar’s “Old Town” area, perched atop a small hill. Early on a Sunday morning, it had that empty feeling of a studio backlot. This ramp running up above the city wall led to a shrine of some sort, … Continue reading
Dusted
Looking south across the dead growth of Donghu Park at the old stone buildings of Kashgar, all dusted with snow.
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