Review: Renee Xia on the Plight of the Uyghurs

To explain why the authoritarian Chinese state has waged a war against ethnic Uyghurs and other Turkic-speaking Muslim minorities in China’s far-western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the anthropologist Sean Roberts, in his new book, The War on the Uyghurs, walks readers back 250 years to learn the story of the Uyghur people. History illuminates the…