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100	1		_aIzgil, Tahir Hamut, _d1969- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aWaiting to be arrested at night : _ba Uyghur poet's memoir of China's genocide / _cTahir Hamut Izgil ; translation and introduction by Joshua L. Freeman.
264		1	_aNew York : _bPenguin Press, _c2023.
300			_axvii, 251 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aTranslated from the Uyghur.
520			_a"A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide. One 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. Tahir, 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. Once 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. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night 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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0		_aPrologue : the interrogation -- A phone call from Beijing -- My hubris -- The women's prison -- Uninvited guests -- Eli the bookseller -- The red armband -- Unity road -- Through a car window -- The key -- The police station basement -- Your unknown place -- Passports -- Rejection -- The far shore -- Lost in Paris -- White slips and blue slips -- Into the storm -- Waiting to be arrested at night -- The door closes -- Body -- The apartment -- There are no goodbyes -- A one-way journey -- Epilogue : exile dreams -- What is it.
600	1	0	_aIzgil, Tahir Hamut, _d1969-
650		0	_aUighur (Turkic people) _zChina _zXinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu _vBiography.
650		0	_aPolitical activists _zChina _zXinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu _vBiography.
650		0	_aGenocide _zChina _zXinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
651		0	_aXinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) _xEthnic relations.
651		0	_aXinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) _xSocial conditions.
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
700	1		_aFreeman, Joshua L., _etranslator, _ewriter of introduction.
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