All in good time.

• Author: Rosenthal, Elizabeth

'We have nothing to do with each other', one Uighur said. 'The Chinese here act like they see right through us, like we're not people to them.'

Then there is the issue of the time. Big stores, or those owned by Chinese, mostly quote opening hours in Beijing time, as if it were their umbilical cord to civilization. Those owned by Muslims, which tend to be small...