China uses tourism to smother Xinjiangࢀ™s culture Tour buses are as effective as bulldozers

China uses tourism to smother Xinjiangࢀ™s culture Tour buses are as effective as bulldozers JAN 2nd, 2020 The afaq khoja mausoleum in Kashgar is one of the holiest places in Xinjiang, a region in the far west of China. The site is politically charged, too. Several 19th-century uprisings against Chinese rule began with rebels making a pilgrimage to the shrine, and its tomb of Afaq Khoja, a divisive figure revered by some locals as a Sufi Muslim saint, and scorned by others as a traitor. It is beautiful, with stately domes and minarets rendered as exquisite as a jewel box…