"Since 2017, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has instituted a series of brutally repressive policies in its far-western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region - also known as East Turkistan. These sweeping policies of cultural genocide have targeted the region's Turkic ethnic groups, largely Muslim, the most prominent of which are the Uyghurs. The CCP has forcibly and systematically sterilized Uyghur women, constructed the most far-reaching and invasive surveillance state in human history, and sent upwards of one million Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples to be "re-educated" in concentration camps - characterized by one expert as "the largest incarceration of an ethno-religious minority since the Holocaust." In Middle Country, Grayson Slover recounts the personal story of his weeklong journey through East Turkistan during the summer of 2019. As he vividly describes his own experiences in East Turkistan, and the observations he made while he was there, Grayson weaves in historical context and political analysis to create a book that is both an engaging adventure story and an informative look at the contemporary situation in East Turkistan"--