Uighur Stories From Along The Silk Road
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Uighur Stories From Along The Silk Road
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Author : Cuiyi Wei
language : en
Publisher: University Press of America
Release Date : 1998
Uighur Stories From Along The Silk Road written by Cuiyi Wei and has been published by University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Fiction categories.
Uighur Stories from Along the Silk Road is an amazing collection of folktales, legends and myths collected in English for the first time. The Uighur people, who lived along the northern rim of the Tarim Basin encountered foreigners from Europe, Arabia, Persia, India, China, Mongolia and Japan who traveled through their land along the Silk Road, the major trading route between Europe and China. This interaction began a rich, multicultural heritage that gave birth to these tales and continued to flourish once the sea replaced the land route for trade. The stories encapsulate Uighur history in the words of the people who migrated from the Northern Mongolian Plateau to Central Asia. They reveal the effects of the gradual conversion to Islam, as well as those of earlier beliefs involving Buddhism, Nestorian Christianity and Manichaeism, on the personality of the people.
Oasis Identities
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Author : Justin Ben-Adam Rudelson
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1997
Oasis Identities written by Justin Ben-Adam Rudelson and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Family & Relationships categories.
Drawing upon extensive fieldwork in the Xinjiang oasis of Turpan, Rudelson assesses the factors that undermine the creation of a pan-Uyghur identity.
Life Along The Silk Road
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Author : Susan Whitfield
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1999
Life Along The Silk Road written by Susan Whitfield and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
The Silk Road was the most traveled trade route for over 1,000 years until it was eclipsed by maritime trade. Whitfield presents composite stories of merchants, soldiers, artists, and princesses who traveled the route, and presents its history through their personal experiences.
Secrets Of The Silk Road
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Author : Victor H. Mair
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Secrets Of The Silk Road written by Victor H. Mair and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Asia, Central categories.
The Sacred Routes Of Uyghur History
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Author : Rian Thum
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2014-10-13
The Sacred Routes Of Uyghur History written by Rian Thum and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-13 with History categories.
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.
The Silk Road
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Author : Sinkiang-Uighur Autonomous Region Museum
language : zh-CN
Publisher:
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The Silk Road written by Sinkiang-Uighur Autonomous Region Museum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
How I Survived A Chinese Reeducation Camp
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Author : Gulbahar Haitiwaji
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2024-06-18
How I Survived A Chinese Reeducation Camp written by Gulbahar Haitiwaji and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The first memoir about the "reeducation" camps by a Uyghur woman, describing the insidious nature of oppression, the dehumanizing effects of torture and brainwashing, and the human drive to survive—and resist—under even the most horrific circumstances. This new paperback edition features a new introduction by the author. “I have written what I lived. The atrocious reality.” — Gulbahar Haitiwaji to Paris Match For three years Gulbahar Haitiwaji was held in Chinese detention centers and “reeducation” camps, enduring interrogations, torture, hunger, police violence, brainwashing, forced sterilization, freezing cold, rats, and nights under the blinding fluorescent lights of her prison cell. Her only crime? Being a Uyghur. China’s brutal repression of Uyghurs, a Turkish-speaking Muslim ethnic group, has been denounced as genocide and reported widely in media around the world. In 2019, the New York Times published the “Xinjiang Papers,” leaked documents exposing the forced detention of more than one million Uyghurs in Chinese “reeducation” camps. The Chinese government denies that these camps are concentration camps, seeking to legitimize their existence in the name of the “total fight against Islamic terrorism, infiltration and separatism” and calling them “schools.” But none of this is true. Gulbahar only escaped thanks to the relentless efforts of her daughter, with the help of the French diplomatic corps. Others have not been so fortunate. In How I Survived a Chinese “Reeducation” Camp, Gulbahar tells her story, describing the insidious nature of oppression, the dehumanizing effects of torture and brainwashing, and the human drive to survive—and resist—under even the most horrific circumstances. This new paperback edition includes a new introduction by the author.
Xinjiang The Silk Road
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Author : Weiquan Weng
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1986
Xinjiang The Silk Road written by Weiquan Weng and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with History categories.
In this superb photographic study, film-maker Peter Yung presents a breath-taking view of one of the most exotic areas of China: Xinjiang province, the westernmost region of the country. It was here, over 2,000 years ago, that the Silk Road first linked China to the outside world. Once the main thoroughfare for the exchange of goods, culture and art between China, the Middle East and Europe, it was also along this route that the great religions of Buddhism and later Islam were to enter China. Even today, Xinjiang is still a stronghold of Islam. Yung has had the rare opportunity to travel extensively throughout Xinjiang and to penetrate some of its remotest landscape, dominated by vast expanses of desert and spectacular mountain ranges, but also the colorful lifestyles of its minorities' population. The province is home to over ten different tribes, as well as Han Chinese, and in a brief but fascinating text, he describes the rich history and customs of the Uygur people and the nomadic Kazak and Tajik.
Gaps In The Silk Road
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Author : Brenda L. Schuster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Gaps In The Silk Road written by Brenda L. Schuster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Uighur (Turkic people) categories.
Stories From The Silk Road
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Author : Cherry Gilchrist
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2005-03
Stories From The Silk Road written by Cherry Gilchrist and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03 with categories.
For use in schools and libraries only. In seven stories, the lively Spirit of the Silk Road takes readers through the culture, history, and folklore of the ancient trade route that stretched from China to Persia and was used from 200 B.C. to the 14th-century.