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Uyghur nation reform and revolution on the Russia-China frontier

Along the Russian-Qing frontier in the nineteenth century, a new political space emerged, shaped by competing imperial and spiritual loyalties, cross-border economic and social ties, and revolution. David Brophy explores how a community of Central Asian Muslims responded to these historic changes by...

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Main Author: Brophy, David John (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press 2016
Subjects:
Uighur (Turkic people) > History
Uighur (Turkic people) > Ethnic identity
Uighur (Turkic people) > Politics and government
Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) > Ethnic relations > History
China > Boundaries > Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation) > Boundaries > China
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Table of Contents:
  • People and place in Chinese Turkistan
  • The making of a colonial frontier
  • Imperial and Islamic reform between Turkistan and Turkey
  • The end of empire and the racial turn
  • Rebellion, revolution, and civil war
  • From party to nation
  • Between the Chinese revolution and the Stalin revolution
  • Uprising in Xinjiang and the Uyghur nation.

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