


China Picture by 
raphaelk
Travel story:
China
My first stop in China was to Xinjiang province in the Northwest. Northwest China is not really Chinese, it is another recent addition to the country, having been invaded and annexed fifty years ago, it was previously an independent sovereign state called East Terkestan. This part of the country is populated mostly by Kazakhs, Uigers and Turkic people. The Han Chinese are much more recent additions. The people look very different to the Chinese and they are mostly Muslim.