Prints from the Swedish Mission in Kashgar The following bibliography is a list of literature produced by Swedish missionaries in Xinjiang, China, between the years 1892 and 1938. In those days it was common to denote the region as Eastern Turkestan. The Swedish missionaries, too, used this name. They called the region Östturkestan (Eastern Turkestan) and referred to the Turkic language spoken by the oasis dwellers in this region östturkiska/ostturkiska (Eastern Turki), which later developed into what is today known as modern Uyghur. Missionary work among the Turkic-speaking Muslim people was conducted at three missionary stations set up in Kashgar, Yarkand and Yengi-Hisar. Efforts focused on the Chinese population took place at a...
