Eastern Turkestan Information Bulletin Vol. Eastern Turkestan Information Bulletin Vol. Despite the claim by officials of China that a cultural policy has been introduced in Eastern Turkestan, athe Turkic people there lack a modern literature. Only 16 percent of publications in Eastern Turkestan are in Turkic languages. There is not even a modern encyclopedia in a Turkic language nor are there contemporary Turkic dictionaries or scientific books.
Most scientific scholars are Chinese.
They write books on Turkic history, culture, civilization, archeology, folklore, traditions, etc. This situation causes tension in China as a whole and in Eastern Turkestan in particular. In the view of the Kazakh students the depiction of a fickle and lascivious Kazakh woman toward the end of the last century distorted the habits and customs of Kazakhs and insulted the pride of Turkic people. In December 1988 hundreds of Uighur students staged a march in Beijing to protest the showing of two films of historical fiction that the Uighur students found disrespectful to the Uighur race. Uighur heroine, Ipar Han, who fought together with her husband, Jihangir Khoja, the ruler of Eastern Turkestan, against the Manchu-Chinese.