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Uyghur History Project
by Uyghur History Project
In the last century, China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has been a theatre of international and regional conflicts, sectarian strife and social upheaval. Today, an estimated 1.5 million of Xinjiang’s native Uyghur population have been incarcerated and subjected to various forms of persecution. Understanding how history has transpired into the current reality is important, because it gives us a direction for taking meaningful action. Join our scholarly discussion on Xinjiang’s past and present, the Uyghur people and their place in the world in the 21st century.
Episodes
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Episode 6: Book Review: Eurasian Crossroads by James Millward
Xinjiang, the vast northwestern region comprising one sixth of the PRC today, borders on India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakstan, Russia and Mongolia. Since antiquity it has stood at the crossroads between China, India, the Mediterranean and Russia. In recent decades its...
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Episode 5: An Interview with Eric Schluessel: Chinese Economic and Legal Engagement with Xinjiang in the Twentieth Century
The late Qing and early Republic of China era, spanning from 1877 to 1933, is widely recognized as a time of significant transformation in the region of Xinjiang or East Turkestan in Chinese Central Asia. During this period, there was a notable emergence of modern Uyghur national identity…
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Episode 4: Book Review: Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia
At the close of the nineteenth century, Confucian revivalists from central China gained control of the Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang, or East Turkestan. There they undertook a program to transform Turkic-speaking Muslims into Chinese-speaking Confucians, seeking to bind this population and...
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Episode 3: Book Review: 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...
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Episode 2: Problems in the Writing of Xinjiang’s History
What is Xinjiang before China? Why was it called East Turkestan and how it is related to Uyghur nationalism today? If we take away the ideas of sovereignty and nation state, how do we define this place? This episode traces some difficulties in the imagination and writing of Xinjiang’s national...
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Episode 1: Who are the Uyghurs? - The Ethnonym and Origin of the Uyghurs
How did the Uyghur come to be known as Uyghurs? Did they call themselves “Uyghurs” in the past? This episode examines how the concept of the Uyghur national identity came into being, and highlights the role of trans-regional politics and revolutionary movements in shaping the development of…
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In the last century, China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has been a theatre of international and regional conflicts, sectarian strife and social upheaval. Today, an estimated 1.5 million of Xinjiang’s native Uyghur population have been incarcerated and subjected to various forms of persecution. Understanding how history has transpired into the current reality is important, because it gives us a direction for taking meaningful action. Join our scholarly discussion on Xinjiang’s past and present, the Uyghur people and their place in the world in the 21st century.
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In the last century, China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has been a theatre of international and regional conflicts, sectarian strife and social upheaval. Today, an estimated 1.5 million of Xinjiang’s native Uyghur population have been incarcerated and subjected to various forms...
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