Uyghur nation reform and revolution on the Russia-China frontier /
"In the late nineteenth century, the meeting of the Russian and Qing empires in Central Asia radically transformed local Muslim communities. Along this new frontier, a political space emerged that was shaped by the interplay of categories of imperial and spiritual loyalty, institutions of auton...
| Main Author: | Brophy, David John, |
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| Other Authors: | ebrary, Inc. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2016.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (347 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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ebrary e-book collection.
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| Summary: |
"In the late nineteenth century, the meeting of the Russian and Qing empires in Central Asia radically transformed local Muslim communities. Along this new frontier, a political space emerged that was shaped by the interplay of categories of imperial and spiritual loyalty, institutions of autonomy and extraterritoriality, and complex negotiations between rulers and ruled. As exiles or émigrés, traders or seasonal laborers, a diverse diaspora of Muslims from Chinese Turkistan came into being on tsarist territory, linking China's northwest to intellectual and political trends among the Muslims of Russia. This book explores the history of transnational and national discourses of communal identity within this community, focusing on the Russian Revolution and Civil War, from which emerged the new notion of a Uyghur nation as a political rallying point. In a detailed study of this poorly known but formative period, the book eschews national teleology to instead show how a shifting alliance of constituencies with ties to Xinjiang, often at loggerheads in the fractious politics of the Soviet 1920s, nevertheless reached an unlikely consensus on the existence of a Uyghur nation. It traces efforts to mobilize this diaspora to intervene in the emerging Soviet structures of national autonomy, and to spread the revolution to Xinjiang. Delving into archives from across the Eurasian continent, and fully informed by local Uyghur sources, it offers the first study of modern Central Asia to span the historiographical divide between Russian and Chinese Turkistan. The book's bottom-up perspective encourages a reconsideration of dominant state-centered understandings of nation-building in the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China."--Provided by publisher. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. "In the late nineteenth century, the meeting of the Russian and Qing empires in Central Asia radically transformed local Muslim communities. Along this new frontier, a political space emerged that was shaped by the interplay of categories of imperial and spiritual loyalty, institutions of autonomy and extraterritoriality, and complex negotiations between rulers and ruled. As exiles or émigrés, traders or seasonal laborers, a diverse diaspora of Muslims from Chinese Turkistan came into being on tsarist territory, linking China's northwest to intellectual and political trends among the Muslims of Russia. This book explores the history of transnational and national discourses of communal identity within this community, focusing on the Russian Revolution and Civil War, from which emerged the new notion of a Uyghur nation as a political rallying point. In a detailed study of this poorly known but formative period, the book eschews national teleology to instead show how a shifting alliance of constituencies with ties to Xinjiang, often at loggerheads in the fractious politics of the Soviet 1920s, nevertheless reached an unlikely consensus on the existence of a Uyghur nation. It traces efforts to mobilize this diaspora to intervene in the emerging Soviet structures of national autonomy, and to spread the revolution to Xinjiang. Delving into archives from across the Eurasian continent, and fully informed by local Uyghur sources, it offers the first study of modern Central Asia to span the historiographical divide between Russian and Chinese Turkistan. The book's bottom-up perspective encourages a reconsideration of dominant state-centered understandings of nation-building in the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China."--Provided by publisher. Access restricted to subscribing institutions. Individual titles purchased upon selection by the 7th affiliated user. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web. System requirements (computers): Browser software; optional ebrary proprietary readers require a Java plug-in (both available on the ebrary site for download at no charge). System requirements (mobile devices): May download to <Kindle, Kobo, Nook and Sony Reader>; free app available on the App Store in <English and Spanish> for <iPad, iPod and iPhone>. Text may be read online, with selection copying and a limited quantity of page prints allowed. Users at some libraries must establish an individual no-charge ebrary account, and log in to download the full text or use extended online features. For security, do not use a confidential or important ID and password to log in; create a different username and password. Optional login available using a Facebook username and password. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (347 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Format: |
System requirements (computers): Browser software; optional ebrary proprietary readers require a Java plug-in (both available on the ebrary site for download at no charge). System requirements (mobile devices): May download to <Kindle, Kobo, Nook and Sony Reader>; free app available on the App Store in <English and Spanish> for <iPad, iPod and iPhone>. Text may be read online, with selection copying and a limited quantity of page prints allowed. Users at some libraries must establish an individual no-charge ebrary account, and log in to download the full text or use extended online features. For security, do not use a confidential or important ID and password to log in; create a different username and password. Optional login available using a Facebook username and password. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780674970441 0674970446 |
| Access: |
Access restricted to subscribing institutions. Individual titles purchased upon selection by the 7th affiliated user. |