Melody Saved: How a Uygur Performing Art Survived the Silence

　2026-05-08

Released in China's Xinjiang in April, the film Wan Tongshu tells the remarkable true story of a musician who traveled thousands of miles to Xinjiang in 1951 to preserve the Muqam art, one of Uygur people's most treasured art forms.

(Source: Xinhua)

Editor: Wang Shasha

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