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A Muslim woman with her head completely covered in a brown cloth walks by a bread vendor in Khotan, China, in April 2008. Some Muslims in China's far west are adopting more conservative practices.
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A Muslim vendor holds different colored pieces of jade for sale in Khotan, China, a city in China's far west.
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A young woman works at a loom weaving a carpet in the city of Khotan, China. Muslim carpetmakers earn about $2 a day for their toil, a rockbottom wage even for China.
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Bakers prepare bread in hearths in Khotan, a city in China's far west Muslim region.
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Bakers prepare flat bread, a staple for Central Asian Muslims, in Khotan, a city in China's western Xinjiang region.
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