On the Brahmi Glosses of the Uygur Sitatapatra Text

July 5, 2023 0 379

On the Brahmi Glosses of the Uygur Sitatapatra Text
Author(s): Tibor Porcio
Source: Central Asiatic Journal , 2003, Vol. 47, No. 1 (2003), pp. 91-109 Published by: Harrassowitz Verlag
As Gabain (1964) established, the Brahm? script was conveyed to the Uygurs by the Tokharians who lived in the North-Western part of Tur- kestan. This is supported by the fact that the Uygurs adopted the new signs which had been introduced by the Tokharians and to which they added a few more for their own purposes. This event must have taken place in the eighth or ninth, but definitely not later than the tenth century A.D. Continue reading “On the Brahmi Glosses of the Uygur Sitatapatra Text” →

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

August 7, 2022 9 706

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” →

Arts and Crafts of the Uyghurs of Kazakhstan

June 17, 2022 10 1092

On History of Cultural Traditions Transformation: Arts and Crafts of the Uyghurs of Kazakhstan
Author: Risalat U. Karimova
Source: Oriente Moderno , 2016, NUOVA SERIE, Anno 96, Nr. 1 (2016), pp. 3-24
Published by: Istituto per l’Oriente C. A. Nallino
ABSTRACT
The article examines the development of traditional arts and crafts among Kazakhstan’s Uyghurs under the influence of various historical factors. The Uyghurs of Kazakhstan and other Central Asian countries comprise ethnographic group which developed over the last centuries separated from the main Uyghur population in Xinjiang, China, which resulted in emergence of their particular features. The article argues that the transformation of traditional arts and crafts among the Uyghurs of Kazakhstan occurred under the influence of political events, which changed dramatically the life of the entire population of the Russian Empire. Continue reading “Arts and Crafts of the Uyghurs of Kazakhstan” →

Age and the Cost of Being Uyghurs in Ürümchi

June 17, 2022 4 989

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

June 17, 2022 8 714

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” →

Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks

June 15, 2022 7 635

Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries)
Series: Dynamics in the History of Religions, Volume: 8
Volume Editor: Carmen Meinert
The interdisciplinary volume Transfer of Buddhism across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries), edited by Carmen Meinert, offers a new transregional and transcultural vision for religious transfer processes in Central Asian history.
Copyright Year: 2016
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Philologische Bemerkungen Zu Einigen Alttürkischen Stoffnamen

June 15, 2022 3 551

Philologische Bemerkungen Zu Einigen Alttürkischen Stoffnamen (German)
Philological Remarks on Some Old Turkish Names of Substances (English)
Author(S): Peter Zieme
Source: Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae , 1995, Vol. 48, No. 3, Studia Orientalia Prof. Susannae Kakuk Septusgennariae Dedicata (1995), Pp. 487-494
Published By: Akademiai Kiado
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The Arabic Yarkand Documents

June 15, 2022 7 674

The Arabic Yarkand Documents
Author: Monika Gronke
Source: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 49, No. 3 (1986), pp. 454-507
Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of School of Oriental and African Studies
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The Recurring Patterns of Chinese Central Government Development Planning among Uyghurs

June 14, 2022 3 334

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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An Old Uyghur Fragment Of The Lotus Sutra From The Krotkov Collection In St. Petersburg

June 14, 2022 3 390

An Old Uyghur Fragment Of The Lotus Sutra From The Krotkov Collection In St. Petersburg
Author: Abdurishid Yakup
Source: Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae , December 2011, Vol. 64, No. 4 (December 2011), pp. 411-426
Published by: Akademiai Kiado
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