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February 10, 1958
A cover sheet for a memorandum of conversation between Soviet diplomats and leading officials in Xinjiang.
February 5, 1958
Iu. Andropov of the Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU describes Chinese Communist Party meetings in Xinjiang and "local nationalism" in China's far northwest.
January 12, 1958
Xin Lanting discusses growing calls for the separation of Xinjiang from the People's Republic of China.
January 17, 1958
In a conversation with the Soviet Consul-General, Wang Enmao describes "local nationalism" within Xinjiang and open hostility towards Chinese Communist Party rule.
January 20, 1958
G. Dobashin summarizes recent talks with leading officials in Xinjiang, including Wang Enmao, S. Äzizov, and Xin Lanting, about the Party Plenum in Xinjiang. Full versions of the conversations are attached to the file.
April 30, 1951
Lattimore tells Alptekin that he is "doing my best to stimulate more study" of Xinjiang in the United States.
November 14, 1950
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.
June 29, 1950
Lattimore continues his push to improve the study of "Central Asian Turkish" in the United States.
June 22, 1950
Mortimer Graves of the American Council for Learned Societies responds to Owen Lattimore's request for financial support to bring a Xinjiang specialist to the United States.
June 19, 1950
Owen Lattimore reports to several of Xinjiang's exiled leaders that he is seeking support on their behalf.