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tata's avatar

Very nice post! I was in Kyrgyzstan a few weeks ago and thought it was very nice

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Misha Skurikhin's avatar

But who was the first ChinaTalk listener in Kyrgyzstan?

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Jordan Schneider's avatar

the world may never know!

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Torches Together's avatar

Nice review! I visited this time last year.

I loved visiting the Dungan (东干) people in Karakol. They arrived in Kyrgyzstan in the late Qing. They still speak a Shaanxi dialect (I could understand maybe 40%), but can't read Chinese characters. They even had books of folk tales written in Cyrillic that they could read in their dialect. It kind of felt like visiting a China that no longer exists. Also made me realise how rare it is in the mainland to hear young Northern dialect speakers who don't speak Mandarin.

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Jordan Schneider's avatar

insane

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Ben Westhoff's avatar

Incredible post, would have just liked this information higher: "players ride horses and compete to throw a 90lb (40kg) dead goat into an elevated pit."

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Jordan Schneider's avatar

this is a great youtube deep dive

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Lee S's avatar

Great post - awesome to learn more about such an undiscovered country. Would be curious about crypto trends there and if stablecoin adoption has proliferated / the digital banking scene broadly.

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