Detecting construction sites in Kashgar, China

ianSF

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Apr 6, 2006
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Sad about all the people that will be forced from their homes, but I can't help but think represents the opportunity of a lifetime for metal detecting the construction sites. Imagine the possibilities of what might be found....

Group trip anyone?

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To Protect an Ancient City, China Moves to Raze It

Shiho Fukada for The New York Times

Published: May 27, 2009

KASHGAR, China — A thousand years ago, the northern and southern branches of the Silk Road converged at this oasis town near the western edge of the Taklamakan Desert. Traders from Delhi and Samarkand, wearied by frigid treks through the world’s most daunting mountain ranges, unloaded their pack horses here and sold saffron and lutes along the city’s cramped streets. Chinese traders, their camels laden with silk and porcelain, did the same.

The traders are now joined by tourists exploring the donkey-cart alleys and mud-and-straw buildings once window-shopped, then sacked, by Tamerlane and Genghis Khan.

Now, Kashgar is about to be sacked again.

Nine hundred families already have been moved from Kashgar’s Old City, “the best-preserved example of a traditional Islamic city to be found anywhere in central Asia,” as the architect and historian George Michell wrote in the 2008 book “Kashgar: Oasis City on China’s Old Silk Road.”

Over the next few years, city officials say, they will demolish at least 85 percent of this warren of picturesque, if run-down homes and shops. Many of its 13,000 families, Muslims from a Turkic ethnic group called the Uighurs (pronounced WEE-gurs), will be moved.

In its place will rise a new Old City, a mix of midrise apartments, plazas, alleys widened into avenues and reproductions of ancient Islamic architecture “to preserve the Uighur culture,” Kashgar’s vice mayor, Xu Jianrong, said in a phone interview.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/world/asia/28kashgar.html?ref=global-home
 

lastleg

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Feb 3, 2008
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IanSF, Fantastic, no pulltabs. You should have no problem getting
pemission from the communist regime to get in to dig around an
ancient Islamic city with no terroism to worry about. I wonder if the
Chinese prison there is quake-proof?
 

BuckleBoy

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Fisher F75, Whites DualField PI, Fisher 1266-X and Tesoro Silver uMax
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All Treasure Hunting
You might end up on the cover of the next National Geographic magazine, replete with Hood and White's XLT.
 

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