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Community matters in Xinjiang, 1880-1949: towards a historical anthropology of the Uyghur

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Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (22003784 bytes)
Pages
0\494
Topic
History
Library
twirpx
Time added
2017-08-07 07:01:42

Description

Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2008. — xv; 477 p. China Studies. Institute for Chinese studies, University of Oxford. Vol XVII. ISBN 1570-1344; ISBN 978-90-04-16675-2This book is about the modern Uyghur, an ethnic group living in the northwest of the PR of China. They speak Turkic language and adhere to the Hanafi school of Islam. In spite of the presence of a number of other groups representing diverse economic, ethnic and religious traditions, the major antagonism in the region consists of the ethnic tensions between the Uyghurs and the Han Chinese.

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