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China Books PodcastEp. 8: Uyghur Women Speaking OutGenocide is not a word thrown around lightly by the U.S. government, but it uses that term to describe the Chinese government’s ongoing assaults on Uyghurs’ distinct culture, identity, rights, and freedom in China’s far western region of Xinjiang. China's government has long had an uneasy relationship with Uyghurs’ distinct Turkic Muslim identity, and has tried in various ways over time to control them, reduce and dilute their population, and make them assimilate.But lately, it’s gotten much worse. Within the past decade, about a million Uyghurs – almost one in 10 – were sent to reeduca...2024-05-0751 min
The Chris Voss ShowThe Chris Voss Show Podcast – A Stone Is Most Precious Where it Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Exile, Hope, and Survival by Gulchehra Hoja
A Stone Is Most Precious Where it Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Exile, Hope, and Survival by Gulchehra Hoja
This extraordinary memoir shares an insight into the lives of the Uyghurs, a people and culture being systematically destroyed by China—and a woman who gave up everything to help her people.
In February 2018, twenty-four members of Gulchehra Hoja’s family disappeared overnight. Her crime – and thus that of her family – was her award-winning investigations on the plight of her people, the Uyghurs, whose existence and culture is being systematically destroye...2023-04-2036 min
NPR's Book of the Day'A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs' is a memoir of the Uyghur experienceDescribing home for journalist Gulchehra Hoja is complicated. She's from western China, in the Xinjiang province. But as she tells NPR's Steve Inskeep, she considers the Uyghur region –which was formerly free – her native country. Her new memoir, A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs, navigates the difficult and often painful reality of growing up proud of her heritage but under a Chinese nationalist mindset – and doing work that she says eventually led to her family's arrest.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy2023-03-0907 min
Explore New Full Audiobooks in History, AsiaA Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Exile, Hope, and Survival by Gulchehra HojaPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599880to listen full audiobooks.
Title: A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Exile, Hope, and Survival
Author: Gulchehra Hoja
Narrator: Sarah Suzuk
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
Release date: February 21, 2023
Genres: Asia
Publisher's Summary:
This extraordinary memoir shares an insight into the lives of the Uyghurs, a people and culture being systematically destroyed by China—and a woman who gave up everything to help her people. In February 2018, twenty-four members of Gulchehra Hoja's family disappeared overnight. Her crime – and thus that of her family – was her award-winning investigations on the...2023-02-218h 36
Explore New Full Audiobooks in History, AsiaA Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Exile, Hope, and Survival by Gulchehra HojaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599880 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Exile, Hope, and Survival Author: Gulchehra Hoja Narrator: Sarah Suzuk Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Genres: Asia Publisher's Summary: This extraordinary memoir shares an insight into the lives of the Uyghurs, a people and culture being systematically destroyed by China—and a woman who gave up everything to help her people. In February 2018, twenty-four members of Gulchehra Hoja's family disappeared overnight. Her crime – and thus that of her family – was her award-winning invest...2023-02-2103 min
Explore the Latest Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsA Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Exile, Hope, and Survival by Gulchehra HojaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599880 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Exile, Hope, and Survival Author: Gulchehra Hoja Narrator: Sarah Suzuk Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: This extraordinary memoir shares an insight into the lives of the Uyghurs, a people and culture being systematically destroyed by China—and a woman who gave up everything to help her people. In February 2018, twenty-four members of Gulchehra Hoja's family disappeared overnight. Her crime – and thus that of her family – was he...2023-02-2103 minExplore the Latest Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsA Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Exile, Hope, and Survival by Gulchehra HojaPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599880to listen full audiobooks.
Title: A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Exile, Hope, and Survival
Author: Gulchehra Hoja
Narrator: Sarah Suzuk
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
Release date: February 21, 2023
Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
Publisher's Summary:
This extraordinary memoir shares an insight into the lives of the Uyghurs, a people and culture being systematically destroyed by China—and a woman who gave up everything to help her people. In February 2018, twenty-four members of Gulchehra Hoja's family disappeared overnight. Her crime – and thus that of her family – was her aw...2023-02-218h 36
Little, Brown AudioA Stone is Most Precious Where It Belongs by Gulchehra Hoja, read by Sarah Suzuk (Audiobook extract)A powerful and urgent memoir by Uyghur activist Gulchehra Hoja: the first major book to describe the fate of the Uyghur people.
'This gripping memoir shows the courage and cost of telling a truer story' GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE DAY
'A memoir of an extraordinary life, which takes in the past 50 years of Xinjiang's history ... fascinating' THE TIMES
'Revelatory' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
A powerful and urgent memoir by Uyghur activist Gulchehra Hoja - a remarkable woman who went from being a beloved star on Chinese children's TV to a journalist whose reporting on the oppression of her people led to her...2023-02-2104 min
Dissidents and DictatorsSilence is Not an Option: Advocacy and Action (Genocide in the 21st Century: The Uyghur Crisis)With millions being arbitrarily detained and imprisoned in labor camps in the Xinjiang region of China simply for speaking a different language and practicing a different culture, Silence Is Not An Option. Sit down with our panelists for a chance to listen to three individually unique stories all with the same end goal, to free their family, friends, and neighbors from the regime's tight grasp. Whether working as a journalist, teacher, researcher, or advocate these amazing activists go in-depth into their personal experiences and the prosecution they've undergone, as well as share how we can all do our part to...2021-06-101h 17
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerThe Conscience of a Uyghur-American JournalistGulchehra Hoja works at Radio Free Asia, in Washington, D.C. She is a Uyghur, a Uyghur American. The Chinese government has imprisoned more than a million Uyghurs in a new network of concentration camps—a new gulag archipelago. Among the prisoners are many of Gulchehra Hoja’s relatives. She and her colleagues at RFA have paid a terrible price for their truth-telling; so have their families. Ms. Source2021-04-2949 min
Radio RadarMujeres Periodistas - Premios al Coraje en el PeriodismoNuestra columnista Dagmar Thiel - Dir. de Fundamedios U.S- nos cuenta sobre el Premio al Coraje en Periodismo.
La Fundación Internacional para las Mujeres en los Medios entregó los premios para celebrar 30 años de apoyo a mujeres periodistas, una manera de reconocer a las mujeres periodistas más valientes del mundo. Escucha los motivos por los que fueron galardonadas.
Las periodistas galardonadas este año en el importante certamen de la International Women's Media Foundation: Jessikka Aro (Finlandia)Yakeen Bido (Siria)Gulchehra Hoja (China) Solafa Magdy (Egipto) Susan Golberg (U.S)Yamic...2020-12-0506 min