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| Jun 11, 2022

GLOBALink | Xinjiang, My home: An inheritor of ethnic Kirgiz embroidery

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Jumehan Ajahun is an inheritor of the traditional ethnic Kirgiz embroidery.

She runs an embroidery shop in Akqi County, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

She wishes to promote the intangible heritage to the outside world.

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