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“Yarkand” is a book category centered on the historic oasis city of Yarkand and the wider Tarim Basin—a Silk Road crossroads where desert caravans, empires, and cultures met. Titles in this genre span historical epics and court intrigues of the Yarkent Khanate; travel writing and archaeology through the Taklamakan; contemporary portraits of bazaar life and borderlands; and works steeped in Uyghur heritage, Sufi mysticism, and the music of the Twelve Muqam. Whether fiction or nonfiction, “Yarkand” books foreground encounters between Turkic, Persian, and Chinese worlds, themes of trade, pilgrimage, exile, and resilience, and the stark beauty and peril of oasis living—illuminating human stories shaped by sand, water, empire, and song.

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