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Some accused @CGTNOfficial documentary on #Xinjiang #Uyghur textbooks of fabricating charges substitute Han for Manchu. I will make a thread abt the Uyghur legend of Nuzugum, the woman who resisted her Qing captors, a story of Uyghur nationalism...
1st little history background, Manchu burst out of frozen waste of Manchuria by 1600s to conquer a vast empire after subjugating both Mongol Khanates and Ming dynasty. Manchu Qing dynasty conquered present-day #Xinjiang by 1760 but rebellions continued
Afaq Khoja family ruled Kashgar as vassal of Dzungar Mongols before Qing conquest. A Khoja heir escaped to neighbor Kokand Khanate. A grandson Jahangir Khoja fled back to Kashgar to lead a revot against the Qing in 1826 and managed to capture Kashgar before been defeated by Qing
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