A Stone is Most Precious Where It Belongs

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A powerful and urgent memoir by Uyghur activist Gulchehra Hoja - a
remarkable woman who went from being a beloved star on Chinese children's
TV to a journalist whose reporting on the oppression of her people led to her
entire extended family being imprisoned.
A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Loss, Exile and Hope is
the first major book to describe the fate of the Uyghur people. In it, Gulchehra describes
her journey towards the truth about Uyghur life under Chinese rule in East Turkistan -
from her early life, to her success as a television star; and her revelation of the reality
about Communist rule; her flight to the US; and then, the fight of her life: to expose
Beijing's terrible crimes against her people.
Gulchehra Hoja is an extraordinary person, a woman who was willing to give up
everything for her people. Her memoir takes us far beyond what the Chinese state wants
the world to see, to reveal the beauty of East Turkistan and the ancient culture of its
people.

Gulchehra Hoja is a Uyghur journalist based in the United States. Her reporting on the situation in East Turkestan (commonly known as the Xinjiang Autonomous Province) for Radio Free Asia – which led to the incarceration of her entire extended family – has been widely recognized in the US and Europe. She has earned honors such as the 2019 Magnitsky Human Rights Award; the Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation in 2020; recognition as one of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world every year since 2016; and multiple appearances at the Oslo Freedom Forum since 2020. She has been profiled for The Washington Post and The Financial Times, among many other publications.