CHINA. Kashgar, Xinjiang. 1999. Kashgar is the most western city of China, located about five thousand kilometers from Beijing. It is also the cultural center of the Uygurs. There is a romantic air to Kashgar, once an essential stop along the Silk Road that enthralled people like Marco Polo and the Swedish explorer Sven Hedin. There are many peddlers along the sides of the road in the old section of Kashgar. The woman here is selling boiled eggs, colored red.