Whenever Ban Fengbin has time, he visits a yurt he purchased from a local herdsman’s family several years ago. “Although this yurt doesn’t conform to modern standards, it serves as a great historical piece that allows us a peek into the past lifestyles of our predecessors,” he says. In 2012, his younger brother Ban Fengong quit his job at a …
Kinesgul Nurtanakin instructs an employee at her company in Yining, Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture in Xinjiang, on April 8. While most Kazakh people in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region have bid farewell to their past nomadic life, Kinesgul Nurtanakin persists in keeping their ethnic memory alive with a craft she inherited from her family. Kazakh embroidery is commonly adopted …
