{"product_id":"waiting-to-be-arrested-at-night-a-uyghur-poets-memoir-of-chinas-genocide-hardcover","title":"Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTahir Hamut Izgil\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJoshua L. Freeman\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eJoshua L. Freeman\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth century, amplified by China's establishment of an all-seeing high-tech surveillance state. Over a million people have vanished into China's internment camps for Muslim minorities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTahir, a prominent poet and intellectual, had been no stranger to persecution. After he attempted to travel abroad in 1996, police tortured him until he confessed to fabricated charges and sent him to a re-education through labor camp. But even having endured three years in the camp, he could never have predicted the Chinese government's radical solution to the Uyghur question two decades later. Was the first sign when Tahir was interrogated for hours after a phone call with a fellow poet in the Netherlands? Or when his old friend was sentenced to life in prison simply for calling for Uyghurs' legal rights to be enforced? Perhaps it was when the police seized Uyghurs' radios and installed jamming equipment to cut them off from the outside world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnce Tahir noticed that the park near his home was nearly empty because so many neighbors had been arrested, he knew the police would be coming for him any day. One night, after Tahir's daughters were asleep, he placed by his door a sturdy pair of shoes, a sweater, and a coat so that he could stay warm if the police came for him in the middle of the night. It was clear to Tahir and his wife that fleeing the country was the family's only hope. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWaiting to Be Arrested at Night\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of the political, social, and cultural destruction of Tahir Hamut Izgil's homeland. Among leading Uyghur intellectuals and writers, he is the only one known to have escaped China since the mass internments began. His book is a call for the world to awaken to the unfolding catastrophe, and a tribute to his friends and fellow Uyghurs whose voices have been silenced.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTahir Hamut Izgil\u003c\/b\u003e is one of the foremost poets writing in the Uyghur language. He grew up in Kashgar, an ancient city in the southwest of the Uyghur homeland. After attending college in Beijing, he returned to the Uyghur region and emerged as a prominent film director. His poetry has appeared, in Joshua L. Freeman's English translation, in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAsymptote\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGulf Coast\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBerkeley Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and have also been extensively translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Turkish. In 2017, as the Chinese state began the mass internment of the Uyghur people, Izgil fled with his family to the United States. He lives near Washington, D.C.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47401039167666,"sku":"9780593491799","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/87eae5d0ff98e99a2de143d9ed97eca1.webp?v=1778089521","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/waiting-to-be-arrested-at-night-a-uyghur-poets-memoir-of-chinas-genocide-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}