Overview

Along the ancient Silk Road where Europe, Asia, and Russia converge stands the four-thousand-year-old homeland of a peaceful people, the Uyghurs. Their culture is filled with music, dance, family, and love of tradition passed down by storytelling through the ages. For millennia, they have survived clashes in the shadow of China, Russia, and Central Asia. Rebiya Kadeer's courage, intellect, morality, and sacrifice give hope to the nearly eleven million Uyghurs worldwide on whose behalf she speaks as an indomitable world leader for the freedom of her people and the sovereignty of her nation. Her life story is one of legends: as a refugee child, as a poor housewife, as a multimillionaire, as a high official in China's National People's Congress, as a political prisoner in solitary confinement for two of nearly six years in jail, and now as a political dissident living in Washington, DC, exiled from her own land.

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"""A defiant political tell-all...Kadeer writes perceptively about the many humiliations imposed by Beijing on the Uighurs...We are constantly reminded of the author’s qualities: she is chaste, smart, beautiful, clever, strong, indomitable, selfless, moral, wise, and fearless—especially fearless...This remarkable life is now added to the saga of the Uighur people."" -- The New York Times ""This memoir of singular bravery in a little-known corner of the Chinese Republic is a compelling testament to the human struggle for freedom, told with gravitas, warmth, and hard-won wisdom."" -- Publishers Weekly ""Breathing fire."" -- The Economist"

Breathing fire.

Breathing fire. -- The Economist This memoir of singular bravery in a little-known corner of the Chinese Republic is a compelling testament to the human struggle for freedom, told with gravitas, warmth, and hard-won wisdom. -- Publishers Weekly A defiant political tell-all...Kadeer writes perceptively about the many humiliations imposed by Beijing on the Uighurs...We are constantly reminded of the author's qualities: she is chaste, smart, beautiful, clever, strong, indomitable, selfless, moral, wise, and fearless-especially fearless...This remarkable life is now added to the saga of the Uighur people. -- The New York Times

A defiant political tell-all...Kadeer writes perceptively about the many humiliations imposed by Beijing on the Uighurs...We are constantly reminded of the author's qualities: she is chaste, smart, beautiful, clever, strong, indomitable, selfless, moral, wise, and fearless-especially fearless...This remarkable life is now added to the saga of the Uighur people. -- The New York Times This memoir of singular bravery in a little-known corner of the Chinese Republic is a compelling testament to the human struggle for freedom, told with gravitas, warmth, and hard-won wisdom. -- Publishers Weekly Breathing fire. -- The Economist

Fearless to the point of folly, [Kadeer's] greatest crime was to warn that if you put people in a pressure cooker, they will explode. And now they have. Christian Tyler, Financial Times Breathing fire... its publication in English is timely, the prose...is not graceful but neither does it distract from the power of Ms Kadeer's story-from child refugee, poor housewife, wealthy tycoon and high official to political prisoner and exiled campaigner. The Economist This is not an attack on the Chinese people: it is instead an incredibly moving and powerful cry for freedom from one of the bravest women of this century. Traveller

Author Information

Rebiya Kadeer is the president of the World Uyghur Congress and the Uyghur American Association. She is devoted to the principles of nonviolence. Recognized as an unofficial head of state, she regularly meets with world leaders.

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