Political

Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier

Uyghur Nation

Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier
Author: David Brophy
Published by Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England 2016

Introduction
This book is a study of the modern history of the Turkic- speaking Muslims of Xinjiang, the Uyghurs. It is a history of creative responses from below to imperial, national, and revolutionary state policies, told from the point of view of people whose life stories not only span the boundary between China and Rus sia but intersect with the history of the Ottoman Empire as well. Continue reading “Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier”

Age and the Cost of Being Uyghurs in Ürümchi

Urumqi

Age and the Cost of Being Uyghurs in Ürümchi
Author: Xiaowei Zang
Source: The China Quarterly , JUNE 2012, No. 210 (JUNE 2012), pp. 419-434
Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of the School of Oriental and African Studies
ABSTRACT
This article asks: is the cost of being Uyghurs higher for young Uyghurs than for old Uyghurs in Ürümchi? I address this question with data from a survey of 2,947 people conducted in Ürümchi in 2005. Continue reading “Age and the Cost of Being Uyghurs in Ürümchi”

Ethno-Diplomacy: The Uyghur Hitch in Sino-Turkish Relation

Ethno-Diplomacy: The Uyghur Hitch in Sino-Turkish Relation

Ethno-Diplomacy: The Uyghur Hitch in Sino-Turkish Relation
Author(s): Yitzhak Shichor
East-West Center (2009)
Executive Summary
Beginning in 1949, China considered, and dealt with, so-called Uyghur separatism and the quest for Eastern Turkestan (Xinjiang) independence as a domestic problem. Since the early 1990s, however, Beijing has begun to recognize the international aspects of this problem and to deal with its external manifestations. Continue reading “Ethno-Diplomacy: The Uyghur Hitch in Sino-Turkish Relation”

The Recurring Patterns of Chinese Central Government Development Planning among Uyghurs

UYGUR RESEARCH LIBRARY

Commanding the Economy: The Recurring Patterns of Chinese Central Government Development Planning among Uyghurs in Xinjiang
Author: HENRYK SZADZIEWSKI
Source: Inner Asia , 2011, Vol. 13, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: XINJIANG AND SOUTHWEST CHINA (2011), pp. 97-116
Published by: Brill
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On the Fringes of the Harmonious Society

On the Fringes of the Harmonious Society

On the Fringes of the Harmonious Society: Tibetans and Uyghurs in Socialist China
Edited by Trine Brox and Ildiko Beller-Hann
Authors: Ildik? Beller-Hann, Andrew Martin Fischer, Henryk Szadziewski, Tracy Y. Zhang, Elisa Cencetti, Chris Hann, Fran?oise Robin, Joanne Smith Finley, Rachel Harris, Eric T. Schluessel
NIAS-Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
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The Ordam-Padishah-System of Eastern Turkistan Shrines

The Ordam-Padishah-System of Eastern Turkistan Shrines

The Ordam-Padishah-System of Eastern Turkistan Shrines
Author(s): Gunnar Jarring
Source: Geografiska Annaler , 1935, Vol. 17, Supplement: Hyllningsskrift Tillagnad Sven Hedin (1935), pp. 348-354
Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. on behalf of Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography
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Gender and Development in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

The Grand Bazaar Urumqi

Muslim Women at a Crossroads: Gender and Development in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

Author: Cindy Yung-Leh Huang

A dissertation submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2009.

Source: UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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