Land of strangers : the civilizing project in Qing Central Asia /

"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, s...

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Библиографические подробности
Главный автор: Schluessel, Eric (Автор)
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
Online-ссылка:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2406411
Оглавление:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Chinese Law: The Origins of the Civilizing Project
  • 2. Xinjiang as Exception: The Transformation of the Civilizing Project
  • 3. Frontier Mediation: The Rise of the Interpreters
  • 4. Bad Women and Lost Children: The Sexual Economy of Confucian Colonialism
  • 5. Recollecting Bones: The Muslim Uprisings as Historical Trauma
  • 6. Historical Estrangement and the End of Empire
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.