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…[...]
Category: Politics and Human rights
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[...]
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…[...]
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…[...]
The Xinjiang Conflict: Uyghur Identity, Language Policy, and Political Discourse
Arienne M. Dwyer This study explores Chinese language policy and language use in Inner Asia, as well as the relation of language policy to the politics of Uyghur identity. Language…[...]
The Art of Symbolic Resistance
Joanne Smith Finley Against the background of the Ürümchi riots (July 2009), this book provides a longitudinal study of contemporary Uyghur identities and Uyghur-Han relations. Previous studies considered China's Uyghurs…[...]
On the Fringes of the Harmonious Society: Tibetans and Uyghurs in Socialist China
Explores how the PRC’s ‘carrot and stick’ approach to its two most problematic nationalities, the Tibetans and Uyghurs, has been implemented and reacted to in the economy, education, popular culture,…[...]
The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
Gardner Bovingdon For more than half a century many Uyghurs, members of a Muslim minority in northwestern China, have sought to achieve greater autonomy or outright independence. Yet the Chinese…[...]