Serene Fang was a very good student in the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. Last year, she started work for PBS and made a trip to Xinjiang. Here is her unforgettable experience from that trip.
Watch Video Rimmed by snow-covered mountains, Xinjiang is a mostly desert province in western China that is home to 8 million Sufi Muslims known as the Uighurs. FRONTLINE/World correspondent Serene Fang traveled to Xinjiang to see how China treats its Muslim population. But this trip would also become a reporter’s nightmare after a fateful encounter with a Uighur man and a repressive government.
“Coming here changed my life,” Fang says.
