Uyghur Culture

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

 August 7, 2022 9 708
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” →

Arts and Crafts of the Uyghurs of Kazakhstan

 June 17, 2022 10 1093
Arts and Crafts of the Uyghurs of Kazakhstan

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 4 992
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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” →

Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks

 June 15, 2022 7 636
Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks

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
UYGUR RESEARCH LIBRARY

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 7 676
The Arabic Yarkand Documents

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

 June 14, 2022 3 390
UYGUR RESEARCH LIBRARY

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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Buddhism in Central Asia I

 June 13, 2022 9 712
Buddhism in Central Asia I

Buddhism in Central Asia I: Patronage, Legitimation, Sacred Space, and Pilgrimage
Edited by Carmen Meinert and Henrik H. Sørensen
Authors: Sem Vermeersch, Erika Forte, Yukiyo Kasai …
Leiden/Boston: Brill (2020): 204-229.
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 725519).
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Ancient Texts and Languages of Ethnic Groups along the Silk Road

 June 13, 2022 8 746
Ancient Texts and Languages of Ethnic Groups along the Silk Road

Ancient Texts and Languages of Ethnic Groups along the Silk Road
Johannes Reckel and Merle Schatz (Eds.)
Author: Saifulla Abdullaev, Nazgul Abdyrakmatova, Erkin Awghaly …
Published: Universitätsdrucke Göttingen, 2021
This work is protected by German Intellectual Property Right Law. It is also available as an Open Access version through the publisher’s homepage and the Göttingen University Catalogue (GUK) at the Göttingen State and University Library Continue reading “Ancient Texts and Languages of Ethnic Groups along the Silk Road” →