Background
Kahar Barat was born in Yili in 1950.
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Kahar Barat was born in Yili in 1950.
Harvard University.
He earned his Master of Arts degree in Turkology from the Central University for Ethnic Minorities (Minzu University of China) in Beijing. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University in 1993. He later taught at Yale University and other institutions.
Barat"s recent book, named Maymaq Uyghurlar ("Warped Uyghurs", in Uyghur) discusses the plight of Xinjiang"s artists, who find themselves in the position of packaging the Uyghur culture for consumption by outside audiences.
