Xinjiang: China’s Muslim Borderland
S. Frederick Starr Eastern Turkestan, now known as Xinjiang or the New Territory, makes up a sixth of China's land mass. Absorbed by the Qing in the 1880s and reconquered…[...]
Pivot Of Asia: Sinkiang and the inner Asian frontiers of China and Russia
Owen Lattimore 288 pages, Hardcover First published January 1, 1950 Owen Lattimore[...]
Xinjiang in the Twenty-First Century: Islam, Ethnicity and Resistance
Michael Dillon There has been a significant increase in the twenty-first century in the frequency and intensity of violent incidents in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the far northwest province…[...]
Because I Have To: The Path to Survival, The Uyghur Struggle
Jewher Ilham, Adam Braver (Editor) When Jewher Ilham's father, Ilham Tohti, an internationally known advocate for peaceful dialogue between his Uyghur people and Han Chinese, was detained at the Beijing airport in…[...]
Down a Narrow Road: Identity and Masculinity in a Uyghur Community in Xinjiang China
Jay Dautcher The Uyghurs, a Turkic group, account for half the population of the Xinjiang region in northwestern China. This ethnography presents a thick description of life in the Uyghur…[...]
Drinking and Driving in Ürümqi
This book—the author's debut non-fiction book—captures Demetre's precarious, but illuminating junket alongside Uyghur ethnic minority Chinese Communist Party/People's Liberation Army members into the complex, obfuscated culture of the riot-scarred capital…[...]
Factory Girl
Josanne La Valley n order to save her family’s farm, Roshen, sixteen, must leave her rural home to work in a factory in the south of China. There she finds…[...]
Ana Yurt
Zordun Sabir The first in a trilogy of historical fiction novels set in East Turkestan/Xinjiang, the novel follows the life of a teenage boy, Nuri, as he navigates his way…[...]
Uyghur: An Elementary Textbook
Gulnisa Nazarova, Kurban Niyaz he Uyghurs are one of the oldest Turkic-speaking peoples of Central Asia. Their language is closely related to Uzbek, with which it shares a common ancestor. Modern…[...]
The Uyghur Lobby: Global Networks, Coalitions and Strategies of the World Uyghur Congress
Yu-Wen Chen An upsurge in violence between Uyghur and Han in China’s far western region of Xinjiang has gained increased media and academic attention in recent years as was evidenced…[...]