Dragon Fighter: One Woman’s Epic Struggle for Peace with China

A remarkable autobiographical journey from humble beginnings to\na position as a powerful world figure fighting for her nation’s\nself-determination. Along the ancient Silk Road where Europe, Asia,\nand Russia converge stands the four-thousand-year-old homeland of a\npeaceful people, the Uyghurs. Their culture is filled with music,\ndance, family, and love of tradition passed down by storytelling\nthrough the ages.

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For millennia, they have survived clashes in the shadow of\nChina, Russia, and Central Asia. Rebiya Kadeer’s courage,\nintellect, morality, and sacrifice give hope to the nearly eleven\nmillion Uyghurs worldwide on whose behalf she speaks as an\nindomitable world leader for the freedom of her people and the\nsovereignty of her nation.

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Her life story is one of legends: as a refugee child, as a poor\nhousewife, as a multimillionaire, as a high official in China’s\nNational People’s Congress, as a political prisoner in solitary\nconfinement for two of nearly six years in jail, and now as a\npolitical dissident living in Washington, DC, exiled from her own\nland.

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