Isa Yusuf Alptekin recounts his experiences in Xinjiang in the 1940s and his flight to India and beyond after the Chinese Communist revolution. He also asks Lattimore for assistance in having exiled students from Xinjiang go to the United States for further education.
April 30, 1951
Letter, Owen Lattimore to Isa Yusuf Alptekin
Lattimore tells Alptekin that he is "doing my best to stimulate more study" of Xinjiang in the United States.
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Folder 14 "Sinkiang Refugees 1950-1951", Box 5, Subseries 3 (Correspondence), Series 4 (Owen Lattimore), Subgroup 2 (Administrative Records, 1924-1955), Record Group 08.010, Records of Walter Hines Page School of International Relations 1923/1955, Ferdinand Hamburger Archives, Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University. Obtained by Charles Kraus.
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