The Niya ruins are located in Minfeng county in the Hotan prefecture, about 115 kilometers north of the modern-day Niya town.

A vendor counts Chinese currency banknotes at her store as she sells frozen seafoods along a roadside in the freezing weather in Harbin, China's Heilongjiang province, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025.

The Maoist state’s dominance over Chinese society, achieved through such watersheds as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, is well known. Maoism at the Grassroots reexamines this ...