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The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), or East Turkestan, located in northwest China, is geo-strategically and economically important to the Chinese state. It is also the centuries-old homeland of Turkic/Muslim Uyghurs and an area of ongoing conflict between them and succ…

This dissertation explores the dynamic of Muslim collaboration to the Qing conquest of Central Asia during the eighteenth century. By exploring the commercial nexus of empire building, this dissertation reveals the Qing empire as an early modern merchant empire, where trading in…

This dissertation seeks to answer the question of how and why a community straddled along the Russia-China border imagined itself as the modem Uyghur nation in the wake of the Russian Revolution. Reflecting the transnational character of its subject, it incorporates a broad rang…