What is Xinjiang before China? Why was it called East Turkestan and how it is related to Uyghur nationalism today? If we take away the ideas of sovereignty and nation state, how do we define this place? This episode traces some difficulties in the imagination and writing of Xinjiang’s national history, while offering a brief chronology of events that are seen as definitive to its modern day existence and conflicts.

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