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January 22, 1958	Memorandum on a Discussion with Wang Huangzhang, Head of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Prefectural People's Committee Wang Huangzhang reports on "local nationalism" in Xinjiang and poor agricultural conditions in the region.
January 7, 1958	Memorandum on a Discussion held by the Consul-General of the USSR in Ürümchi, G.S. DOBASHIN, with the Secretary of the Party Committee of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Comrade LÜ JIANREN Lü Jianren briefs Dobashin on calls for an independent Uyghur republic.
February 10, 1958	Note, M. Zimianin to the Central Committee of the CPSU and to Comrade Iu. V. Andropov A cover sheet for a memorandum of conversation between Soviet diplomats and leading officials in Xinjiang.
February 5, 1958	Iu. Andropov to the Central Committee of the CPSU, 'On the Struggle with Local Nationalism in China' Iu. Andropov of the Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU describes Chinese Communist Party meetings in Xinjiang and "local nationalism" in China's far northwest.
January 12, 1958	Memorandum on a Discussion held by the Consul-General of the USSR in Ürümchi, G.S. DOBASHIN, with Deputy Chairman of the People’s Committee of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Comrade XIN LANTING Xin Lanting discusses growing calls for the separation of Xinjiang from the People's Republic of China.
January 17, 1958	Memorandum of a Discussion held by USSR Consul-General in Ürümchi, G S. Dobashin, with First Secretary of the Party Committee of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Comrade Wang Enmao, and Chair of the People’s Committee, Comrade S. Äzizov In a conversation with the Soviet Consul-General, Wang Enmao describes "local nationalism" within Xinjiang and open hostility towards Chinese Communist Party rule.
January 20, 1958	Note from G. Dobashin, Consul-General of the USSR in Ürümchi, to Comrades N.T. Fedorenko, Zimianin, and P.F. Iudin G. Dobashin summarizes recent talks with leading officials in Xinjiang, including Wang Enmao, S. Äzizov, and Xin Lanting, about the Party Plenum in Xinjiang. Full versions of the conversations are attached to the file.
April 30, 1951	Letter, Owen Lattimore to Isa Yusuf Alptekin Lattimore tells Alptekin that he is "doing my best to stimulate more study" of Xinjiang in the United States.
November 14, 1950	Letter, Isa Yusuf Alptekin to Owen Lattimore Isa Yusuf Alptekin recounts his experiences in Xinjiang in the 1940s and his flight to India and beyond after the Chinese Communist revolution. He also asks Lattimore for assistance in having exiled students from Xinjiang go to the United States for further education.
June 29, 1950	Letter, Owen Lattimore to Mortimer Graves Lattimore continues his push to improve the study of "Central Asian Turkish" in the United States.