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…[...]
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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…[...]
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…[...]
Community Matters in Xinjiang 1880-1949: Towards a Historical Anthropology of the Uyghur
Ildikó Bellér-Hann Based on a wide range of Western and local materials, this book offers an introduction to the historical anthropology of the Muslim Uyghur of Xinjiang from the late…[...]
The Making of a Musical Canon in Chinese Central Asia
Rachel Harris Throughout the course of the twentieth century, as newly formed nations sought ways to develop and formalise their national identity and acquire a range of identifiable national assets,…[...]
Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State
Justin M. Jacobs Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State views modern Chinese political history from the perspective of Han officials who were tasked with governing Xinjiang. This region, inhabited by…[...]
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…[...]
The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History
Rian Thum For 250 years, the Turkic Muslims of Altishahr the vast desert region to the northwest of Tibet have led an uneasy existence under Chinese rule. Today they call…[...]
Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier
The meeting of the Russian and Qing empires in the nineteenth century had dramatic consequences for Central Asia's Muslim communities. Along this frontier, a new political space emerged, shaped by…[...]