During the period of the Sino-Soviet Split, Soviet historians continually revised their approach to the writing of Uyghur history to suit the changing political situation. As in other Uyghur histories, Soviet historians divided Uyghur history into distinct narratives, depending …
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Chinese media have seen a grand transformation since the 1980s. However, the relationship between Chinese media and its 56 ethnic minority groups is under-researched. This dissertation intends to contribute to this field by examining media and in the context of the Uyghurs, a Tu…
The question upon which this study focuses is: what are the essential elements of decision making regarding the territorial composition of states? The analytical framework, strategic construction, seeks to answer this question. Strategic construction posits that in order to unde…
This work results from a dialogue which occurred in 1994 between the author and a native Kazak scholar in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. The consultant addressed the author's questions regarding the existence of “shamanism” among the Xinjiang Kazaks, while provid…
This dissertation presents the results of an ethnographic investigation of social identity in a predominately Uighur suburban community in Northwestern China (Yining, Xinjiang) in the 1990s. Through the interpretive analysis of community members' folklore performances and other …
Nomadic Kazaks have herded livestock for centuries in the mountainous regions of Xinjiang in far western China. Increasingly, the constraints outnumber the opportunities for sustainable management of their most important resources, sheep and other livestock. In addition to econo…
Many regions in China face severe environmental degradation. The government response to these problems has varied from region to region. In particular, environmental rehabilitation in the Tarim River Basin in southern Xinjiang has been much more successful than in the grasslands…
Among the most prominent and least understood of campaigns in which the Chinese state is engaged is its war against terrorism. With links to the international jihad, an indigenous insurgency threatened the government's grip on a massive swath of northwestern China known as Xinji…
This thesis critically evaluates the role of Islam and ethnic differences as driving forces of conflict in Xinjiang. As China grows and becomes more vested in the global system, its continued stability is in the interest of the international community. However, ethnic minority-r…
This is an ethnopolitical study of the majority non-Han, Muslim province of Xinjiang in China’s far northwest during the transition from empire to nationalizing state. After achieving provincial status in 1884, the final decades of Qing rule witnessed fatally weakened attempts b…
This dissertation examines and provides the first complete transcription of the Persian language hagiographic text written in 1730 by Mīr Khāl al-Dīn Yārkandī. Entitled Hidāyatnāmah, the text presents the most detailed philosophical system and the relevant historical sketch of t…
This dissertation was mainly based upon the Manchu and Chinese criminal archives related to the Qing period Huijiang, a Muslim frontier where the main population were Huiren, a Turkic-speaking Muslim group, collected in the First Historical Archives in Beijing. It discusses how …
In light of simmering tensions in Xinjiang and deteriorating relations between Uyghurs and Hans in recent years, this project sets out to uncover the role of identity as an underlying condition by focusing on the identity of Uyghurs. It will shed light on the evolution of this i…
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…
This research examines, through a detailed analysis of the way in which laws were implemented, the changing strategies that the Qing Empire employed to govern Xinjiang from 1759, when this area was annexed into the empire, to 1911, when the Qing dynasty collapsed. Focusing on th…
The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History traces the formation of the popular historical tradition among the Uyghurs, the settled Turkic-speaking Muslims of Altishahr (Xinjiang, China), through a body of texts which have remained mostly unpublished. While the Uyghurs inherited much of…