Singkiang

Moscow's position in its quarrel with Peking is being echoed alose to the Chinese border I the native languages of most of the inhabitants of Singkiang^([sic – meaning Sinkiang]), China's Central Asian province known also as East Turkestan.[…] Uigurs constitute about 75 per cent of the population of Sinkiang and Kazakhs about 10 per cent.

Warm letters and precious gifts came pouring in to the construction site from all parts of the country. Among the gifts were saw-wort seeds gathered from the Tienshan Mountains by workers in Singkiang^([sic – meaning Sinkiang]), chingko barley from emancipated serfs in Tibet, earth from people in quake-stricken Tangshan who were rebuilding their homes, water and sand from the Taiwan Straits from P.L.A. men on the Fukien frontline, colour pebbles from Yuhuatai, Nanking, milky quartz from the Kunlun Mountains, camellias from Tali, Yunnan, azaleas from Kangting, Szechuan, earth from the Chingkang Mountains, Kiangsi, water from Nanniwan, Shensi, etc. They embodied the profound proletarian feelings of the people of all nationalities for Chairman Mao.

Luba was born on November 26, 1958, in the Singkiang^([sic – meaning Sinkiang]) province of China. Shortly after the birth of Luba’s younger brother, Alex, her family began the long journey to Shanghai, and eventually to Australia. Luba was two and a half years old as they approached the city of Lanzhou.