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The Uyghurs in Northwest China have been present in Xinjiang for almost 1600 years, constituting an independent people with cultural and commercial ties stretching across central Asia to Iran. Their music reflects this rich heritage with its ties to the great traditions based on Maqam, which range from Morocco through North Africa, the Middle East, Turkey, Iran and through Central Asia ending in Xianjang. This cultural exchange was never just one-way but represented bilateral movement at its best. The Uyghurs, like most peoples in Asia, became members of different polities over the centuries. They were not part of China until 1884 lasting until the fall of the Ming dynasty in 1911. They again came under control of China after 1949, much like Tibet. Like Tibetans, they have been persecuted and oppressed by the Chinese Communist Party in its obsession with all Chinese populace being uniform, and uniformly Han Chinese. The Chinese Communist Party s embrace of Han Chinese superiority would ....

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