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Xinjiang Fathers
by Malcolm Parker on September 25, 2012
Photos from the hospital in Urumqi of fathers and their children.
Originally posted Sept. 20, 2011…
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Time Travel Xinjiang
by Malcolm Parker on September 15, 2011
I was lucky to be sent to Urumqi, capital city of China’s largest and westernmost province, Xinjiang, a few summers ago as a volunteer on a charity mission. The hospital was a cultural and linguistic swirl: most of the patients and their families were not ethnically Chinese and few spoke Mandarin. One of the translators, a medical intern, spoke Uyghur, Uzbek, Kazakh, English and Mandarin, with some Russian thrown in, flipping from one …
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