China: A night interview with Muhammad Yaqub Beg, Amir of Kashgar (1867-77). Illustration by Robert B. Shaw (fl. 19th century), 1871. Muhammad Yaqub Beg was a Tajik adventurer who became head of the short-lived breakaway Kingdom of Kashgaria in China's Xinjiang province.

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