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ISBN: 067496702X 0674736230 9780674736238 9780674598553 0674598555 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts
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For 250 years, the Turkic Muslims of Altishahr-the vast desert region to the northwest of Tibet-have led an uneasy existence under Chinese rule. Today they call themselves Uyghurs, and they have cultivated a sense of history and identity that challenges Beijing's official national narrative. Rian Thum argues that the roots of this history run deeper than recent conflicts, to a time when manuscripts and pilgrimage dominated understandings of the past. Beyond broadening our knowledge of tensions between the Uyghurs and the Chinese government, this meditation on the very concept of history probes the limits of human interaction with the past. Uyghur historical practice emerged from the circulation of books and people during the Qing Dynasty, when crowds of pilgrims listened to history readings at the tombs of Islamic saints. Over time, amid long journeys and moving rituals, at oasis markets and desert shrines, ordinary readers adapted community-authored manuscripts to their own needs. In the process they created a window into a forgotten Islam, shaped by the veneration of local saints. Partly insulated from the rest of the Islamic world, the Uyghurs constructed a local history that is at once unique and assimilates elements of Semitic, Iranic, Turkic, and Indic traditions-the cultural imports of Silk Road travelers. Through both ethnographic and historical analysis, The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History offers a new understanding of Uyghur historical practices, detailing the remarkable means by which this people reckons with its past and confronts its nationalist aspirations in the present day.
Uighur (Turkic people) --- Manuscripts, Uighur --- Islam --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Sacred space --- Nationalism --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Holy places --- Places, Sacred --- Sacred places --- Sacred sites --- Sacred spaces --- Sites, Sacred --- Space, Sacred --- Holy, The --- Religion and geography --- Pilgrimages and pilgrims --- Processions, Religious --- Travelers --- Voyages and travels --- Shrines --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Uighur manuscripts --- Taranchi (Turkic people) --- Uighurs --- Uigur (Turkic people) --- Uigurs --- Uyghur (Turkic people) --- Uyghurs --- Uygur (Turkic people) --- Weiwu'er (Turkic people) --- Ethnology --- Turkic peoples --- Historiography. --- Travel. --- Intellectual life. --- Religion. --- History. --- Manuscripts --- Takla Makan Desert Region (China) --- History, Local. --- Spiritual tourism
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ISBN: 8776946819 9788776946814 9788776941420 8776941426 9788776941413 Year: 2014 Publisher: Copenhagen : NIAS Press,
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Explores how the PRC's 'carrot and stick' approach to its two most problematic nationalities, the Tibetans and Uyghurs, has been implemented and reacted to in the economy, education, popular culture, religious policies and other arenas.
Chinese autonomous regions --- Uighur (Turkic people) --- Tibetans --- Ethnology --- Tibeto-Burman peoples --- Taranchi (Turkic people) --- Uighurs --- Uigur (Turkic people) --- Uigurs --- Uyghur (Turkic people) --- Uyghurs --- Uygur (Turkic people) --- Weiwu'er (Turkic people) --- Turkic peoples --- Autonomous regions, Chinese --- China --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- Ethnic relations --- Political aspects. --- E-books --- S24/0800 --- S25/0800 --- S11/1210 --- Tibet--Social conditions (incl. ethnography) --- Xinjiang--Social conditions --- China: Social sciences--Works on the national minorities and special groups in China: general and before 1949 (Tibetans, Mongols etc. see Tibet, Mongolia ... but social relations between Chinese and these minorities come here) --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ
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