To Protect and Serve in Korla: Where’s my golf bag?

When I first arrived in Korla, I found it to be a very unique city in Xinjiang by virtue of the fact that it was so remarkably not unique. In stark contrast to many of the better known cities of Xinjiang, such as Kashgar, Khotan, Turpan, and Qumul, Korla strikes one as a rather bland, [...]

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The Story of a Vincent in Xinjiang

Hi there!
My name is Vincent. Unlike most of my childhood friends, I kept on digging, and digging, and digging that pit, knowing that someday, I would make it to the other side. And now, I’ve made it to China.
In a bureaucratic sense, anyways. I’m actually in Indiana, heh heh, but today, after a months-long, [...]

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