Land of Strangers : : The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia / / Eric Schluessel.
At the close of the nineteenth century, near the end of the Qing empire, Confucian revivalists from central China gained control of the Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang, or East Turkestan. There they undertook a program to transform Turkic-speaking Muslims into Chinese-speaking Confucians, seeking...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Conventions
- Introduction
- One The Chinese Law The Origins of the Civilizing Project
- Two Xinjiang as Exception The Transformation of the Civilizing Project
- Three Frontier Mediation The Rise of the Interpreters
- Four Bad Women and Lost Children The Sexual Economy of Confucian Colonialism
- Five Recollecting Bones The Muslim Uprisings as Historical Trauma
- Six Historical Estrangement and the end of Empire
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index