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Welcome to Margareta Hook's Homepage |
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Welcome to Margareta Hook's Homepage |
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When my parents returned to Sweden from East Turkestan 1937 my mother was expecting me! I grew up with East Turkestan in my heart. Every now and then mother made "polla ash" - a delicious ricemeal with onions, carrots and meat. After
medical studies in Sweden I worked with an international mission in
Nepal. My love for East Turkestan, today the Xinjiang
province of China, made me
try to learn a little bit of the language. My
mother's diary is a wonderful record of a dedicated
Swedish woman´s journeys
to and life in East Turkestan. From my parents albums we will share old
pictures with you from that time. In
1998 my husband Björn and I made a
journey in my parents' footsteps on the
Karakoram
Highway to Xinjiang. From our
new
pictures you can compare how
the old silk road and places
in Xinjiang look today! In
the National Archives in Stockholm there is a collection called "Ostturkestansamlingen"
- the East Turkestan
collection - gathered by the late Samuel Franne.
It contains almost 8 800 photographs, texts, diaries of Swedes
who worked in East Turkestan from the period of 1892 till 1938. From
this fantastic source of information I am gathering material to give some lifestories
of uighurs
in East Turkestan
during the l930-s.
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