Warlords And Muslims In Chinese Central Asia

Author : Andrew D. W. Forbes
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1986-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0521255147

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Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia by Andrew D. W. Forbes Pdf

This book provides a detailed study of Sinkiang - China's largest province, and of great strategic importance on the Russian border during the Warlord and Kuomintang Eras. It is an analysis of the internal warlord and Islamic politics of Sinkiang, as well as to take account of 'great power' interests in this region, during a period in which it was essentially a Han Chinese colony in the heart of Central Asia. The study is of relevance not only to the history of twentieth-century China, but also to the politics of Islamic reassertion in Central Asia; to the development of the Soviet Union as an imperial power in the Tsarist Russian mould; to an understanding of the cultural and political aspirations of China's national minorities; and should serve - in a world preoccupied with 'Western' colonialism and imperialism - as a reminder that colonial kin and imperialism was not, and is not, an exclusively European preserve.

Author : Hodong Kim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015058263271

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Holy War in China by Hodong Kim Pdf

In July 2009, violence erupted among Uyghurs, Chinese state police, and Han residents of Ürümqi, the capital city of Xinjiang, in northwest China, making international headlines, and introducing many to tensions in the area. But conflict in the region has deep roots. Now available in paperback, Holy War in China remains the first comprehensive and balanced history of a late nineteenth-century Muslim rebellion in Xinjiang, which led to the establishment of an independent Islamic state under Ya'qub Beg. That independence was lost in 1877, when the Qing army recaptured the region and incorporated it into the Chinese state, known today as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Hodong Kim offers readers the first English-language history of the rebellion since 1878 to be based on primary sources in Islamic languages as well as Chinese, complemented by British and Ottoman archival documents and secondary sources in Russian, English, Japanese, Chinese, French, German, and Turkish. His pioneering account of past events offers much insight into current relations.

Author : Robert Johnson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1861893396

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Oil, Islam, and Conflict by Robert Johnson Pdf

The author looks at the policies of the Central Asian governments, that includes their attitudes to democratic reform, human rights, energy and economic development and how these are related to civil violence.

Author : Shirin Akiner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136150425

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Cultural Change & Continuity In Central Asia by Shirin Akiner Pdf

First published in 1991. Central Asia is a vast sprawling territory with no precise boundaries, no precise geographic definition. There is much detailed, closely focused research that remains to be done on every part of Central Asia. Sometimes, however, it is illuminating to stand back and look at the region as a whole, seeking similarities as well as contrasts. This volume is a collection of papers from a conference on Tradition and Change in Central Asia was held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in April 1987.

Author : S. Frederick Starr
Publisher : Sharpe Reference
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822033353012

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Xinjiang by S. Frederick Starr Pdf

Xinjiang or the "New Territory", makes up a sixth of China's land mass. Will this Turkic-Muslim region of China's remote northwest participate in China's 21st century ascendancy, or will nascent Islamic radicalism in Xinjiang expand the orbit of instability in a dangerous part of the world?

Author : Christoph Baumer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 1568 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781838608682

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History of Central Asia, The: 4-volume set by Christoph Baumer Pdf

This set includes all four volumes of the critically acclaimed History of Central Asia series. The epic plains and arid deserts of Central Asia have witnessed some of the greatest migrations, as well as many of the most transformative developments, in the history of civilization. Christoph Baumer's ambitious four-volume treatment of the region charts the 3000-year drama of Scythians and Sarmatians; Soviets and transcontinental Silk Roads; trade routes and the transmission of ideas across the steppes; and the breathless and brutal conquests of Alexander the Great and Chinghiz Khan. Masterfully interweaving the stories of individuals and peoples, the author's engaging prose is richly augmented throughout by colour photographs taken on his own travels. This set includes The Age of the Steppe Warriors (Volume 1), The Age of the Silk Roads (Volume 2), The Age of Islam and the Mongols (Volume 3) and The Age of Decline and Revival (Volume 4)

Author : Sheila Hollihan-Elliot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Islam
ISBN : 1590848802

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Muslims in China by Sheila Hollihan-Elliot Pdf

Although they constitute a small minority of China's 1.3 billion people, approximately 20 million Muslims live within the borders of the world's most populous country. About 9 million of them belong to the Hui minority, which has largely assimilated into China's dominant Han culture. But some 8 million Chinese Muslims are Uyghurs, members of a Turkic-speaking group who have more in common with peoples in Central Asia than with the Han Chinese. In recent years, nationalism has bubbled up in northwestern China's Xinjiang region, where the Uyghurs are concentrated. This has raised concern among, and provoked a crackdown from, China's Communist government in Beijing. Muslims in China examines this development as well as more general economic, political, and social issues facing China today. It also provides up-to-date information about China's geography, history, society, important cities and communities, and more. Book jacket.

Author : Christian Tyler
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0813535336

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Wild West China by Christian Tyler Pdf

Closed to the world for half a century, like a black hole in the Asian landmass, the wilderness of Xinjiang in northwest China is returning to the light. The picture it presents is both fascinating and disturbing. Despite a savage landscape and climate, Xinjiang has a rich past: sand-buried cities, painted cave shrines, rare creatures, and wonderfully preserved mummies of European appearance. Their descendants, the Uighurs, still farm the tranquil oases that ring the dreaded Taklamakan, the world's second largest sand desert, and the Kazakh and Kirghiz herdsmen still roam the mountains. The region's history, however, has been punctuated by violence, usually provoked by ambitious outsiders--nomad chieftains from the north, Muslim emirs from Central Asia, Russian generals, or warlords from inner China. The Chinese regard the far west as a barbarian land. Only in the 1760s did they subdue it, and even then their rule was repeatedly broken. Compared with the Russians' conquest of Siberia, or the Americans' trek west, China's colonization of Xinjiang has been late and difficult. The Communists have done most to develop it, as a penal colony, as a buffer against invasion, and as a supplier of raw materials and living space for an overpopulated country. But what China sees as its property, the Uighurs regard as theft by an alien occupier. Tension has led to violence and savage reprisals. This portrait of Xinjiang should be essential reading for travelers and for anyone interested in today's China and the fate of minority peoples.

Author : Colin Mackerras,Michael Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134053872

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China, Xinjiang and Central Asia by Colin Mackerras,Michael Clarke Pdf

Central Asia and Xinjiang, the far northwestern province of China, are of increasing international importance. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the region’s significance historically, of the contemporary international forces which affect the region, and of current political, economic and cultural developments.

Author : Sean R. Roberts
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691234496

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The War on the Uyghurs by Sean R. Roberts Pdf

How China is using the US-led war on terror to erase the cultural identity of its Muslim minority in the Xinjiang region Within weeks of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, the Chinese government warned that it faced a serious terrorist threat from its Uyghur ethnic minority, who are largely Muslim. In this explosive book, Sean Roberts reveals how China has been using the US-led global war on terror as international cover for its increasingly brutal suppression of the Uyghurs, and how the war's targeting of an undefined enemy has emboldened states around the globe to persecute ethnic minorities and severely repress domestic opposition in the name of combatting terrorism. Of the eleven million Uyghurs living in China today, more than one million are now being held in so-called reeducation camps, victims of what has become the largest program of mass detention and surveillance in the world. Roberts describes how the Chinese government successfully implicated the Uyghurs in the global terror war—despite a complete lack of evidence—and branded them as a dangerous terrorist threat with links to al-Qaeda. He argues that the reframing of Uyghur domestic dissent as international terrorism provided justification and inspiration for a systematic campaign to erase Uyghur identity, and that a nominal Uyghur militant threat only emerged after more than a decade of Chinese suppression in the name of counterterrorism—which has served to justify further state repression. A gripping and moving account of the humanitarian catastrophe that China does not want you to know about, The War on the Uyghurs draws on Roberts's own in-depth interviews with the Uyghurs, enabling their voices to be heard.

Author : Graham E. Fuller,S. Frederick Starr,Institute for Security and Development Policy. Silk Road Studies Program,Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)
ISBN : 0974329207

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The Xinjiang Problem by Graham E. Fuller,S. Frederick Starr,Institute for Security and Development Policy. Silk Road Studies Program,Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute Pdf

Author : Ildikó Bellér-Hann
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0754670414

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Situating the Uyghurs Between China and Central Asia by Ildikó Bellér-Hann Pdf

Drawing together distinguished international scholars, this volume offers a unique insight into the social and cultural hybridity of the Uyghurs. The work is comparative and interdisciplinary in focus and bridges a gap in our understanding of this group.

Author : Touraj Atabaki,Sanjyot Mehendale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134319930

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Central Asia and the Caucasus by Touraj Atabaki,Sanjyot Mehendale Pdf

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a number of linkages have been established between newly independent Central Asian states, or populations within them, and diaspora ethnic groups. This book explores the roles that diaspora communities play in the recent and ongoing emergence of national identities in Central Asia and the Caucasus. The loyalties of these communities are divided between their countries of residence and those states that serve as homeland of their particular ethno-cultural nation, and are further complicated by connections with contested transnational notions of common cultures and 'peoples'. Written by highly respected experts in the field, the book addresses issues such as nationalism, conflict, population movement, global civil society, Muslim communities in China and relations between the new nation-states and Russia. This innovative book will interest students and researchers of transnationalism and Central Asian studies.

Author : Michael E. Clarke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136827068

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Xinjiang and China's Rise in Central Asia - A History by Michael E. Clarke Pdf

This book provides an account of how Beijing’s evolving integrationist policies in Xinjiang have influenced its foreign policy in Central Asia since the establishment of the People’s Republic in 1949, and how the policy of integration is related to China’s concern for security and to its pursuit of increased power and influence in Central Asia.

Author : S. C. M. Paine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139560870

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The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949 by S. C. M. Paine Pdf

The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949 shows that the Western treatment of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War as separate events misrepresents their overlapping connections and causes. The Chinese Civil War precipitated a long regional war between China and Japan that went global in 1941 when the Chinese found themselves fighting a civil war within a regional war within an overarching global war. The global war that consumed Western attentions resulted from Japan's peripheral strategy to cut foreign aid to China by attacking Pearl Harbour and Western interests throughout the Pacific in 1941. S. C. M. Paine emphasizes the fears and ambitions of Japan, China and Russia, and the pivotal decisions that set them on a collision course in the 1920s and 1930s. The resulting wars together yielded a viscerally anti-Japanese and unified Communist China, the still-angry rising power of the early twenty-first century.