Those Who Should Be Seized Should Be Seized: China's Relentless Persecution of Uyghurs and Other Ethnic Minorities by Beck, John
Those Who Should Be Seized Should Be Seized: China's Relentless Persecution of Uyghurs and Other Ethnic Minorities by Beck, John

Those Who Should Be Seized Should Be Seized: China's Relentless Persecution of Uyghurs and Other Ethnic Minorities

A shocking, on-the-ground investigation of the Chinese government's brutal oppression of its Muslim citizens -- the Uyghurs,...
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Author: John Beck
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Those Who Should Be Seized Should Be Seized: China's Relentless Persecution of Uyghurs and Other Ethnic Minorities by Beck, John

Those Who Should Be Seized Should Be Seized: China's Relentless Persecution of Uyghurs and Other Ethnic Minorities

$80.20
Those Who Should Be Seized Should Be Seized: China's Relentless Persecution of Uyghurs and Other Ethnic Minorities by Beck, John

Those Who Should Be Seized Should Be Seized: China's Relentless Persecution of Uyghurs and Other Ethnic Minorities

$80.20
Author: John Beck
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A shocking, on-the-ground investigation of the Chinese government's brutal oppression of its Muslim citizens -- the Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and others -- told by the victims . . .

Award-winning journalist John Beck recounts China's persecution of Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim minorities in Xinjiang and its relentless pursuit of the few who escaped beyond its borders. Through intertwined literary narratives combined with snippets of original source material, including official directives and speeches, he pieces together the individual stories of what consecutive American administrations have described as genocide.

The narrative moves from China to Kazakhstan, Turkey and the US, incorporating the tensions, discrimination, and occasional violence that characterised life in Xinjiang for decades. Then the dismantling of rights and escalating repression under President Xi Jinping that quickly accelerated into a crackdown of unprecedented scope and brutality.

We follow 4 characters: a Kazakh writer and an Uyghur nurse who survived re-education camps before ultimately escaping abroad, a human rights advocate involved in securing their release and, an inadvertent exile spied on by Chinese authorities as his family back home was used as leverage against him.

In their stories, the book explores identity, dehumanization, and censorship, the force of literature in dark times, and an all-pervasive apparatus of repression able to exist within miles of the White House.

John Beck lived in Istanbul for a number of years, where he was in close contact with the city's Uyghur diaspora and wrote on the crackdown and related issues for publications including Harper's and National Geographic. Some of that work forms the basis of this book along with further reporting from Almaty, Kazakhstan, Virginia, and New York.

Author: John Beck
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Published: 05/27/2025
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
ISBN: 9781685891794

About the Author
John Beck is an award-winning journalist focused on conflict and human rights issues, whose writing has appeared in GQ, Wired, Businessweek, The Atlantic, and The Sunday Times Magazine. He won the 2017 Kurt Schork Memorial Award as well as the 2019 Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism fellowship, has been shortlisted for the Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents, Amnesty International Media Awards, and One World Media Awards, among others. Based in New York, he is a Pulitzer Centre for Crisis Reporting grantee.
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