In 1870, Tsarist troops occupied Guldja in the north-west of the province. The same year, and again in 1873, the British agent Douglas Forsyth led a mission to Yarkant to establish diplomatic relations with Yakub Beg, the feudal warlord of Kashgaria, who was consolidating his rule over the area.

The character’s appeal is universal though because she represents a feminist politics of disrespectability (what black American feminists call ratchetness) that has no time for prim notions of femininity as demure, quiet and self-effacing.

Weird Thing 1: just a dream I dreamt of being in a large bargoon shopping environment, like a Winners (a.k.a. Weiners) or a Ross's Dress for Less, pushing a shopping cart in which I had placed several outfits […]

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