Burhan Shahidi was born in 1894 in the Russian Kazan Governorate to a family whose ancestors had fled from Aksu after a failed peasant uprising during the Qing Dynasty .
Aksu is an oasis town in southern Xinjiang .
Burhan Shahidi was born in 1894 in the Russian Kazan Governorate to a family whose ancestors had fled from Aksu , an oasis town in southern Xinjiang , after a failed peasant uprising during the Qing Dynasty .