The rising tide of ethnic nationalism that has swept across Central Asia in the past decade has energized efforts by the Chinese government to win favor among its ethnic minorities. As a result, China has granted the Uyghurs―a Turkic Muslim people who inhabit the oases of China's far northwestern province, Xinjiang―special previledges, opening up international borders, reestablishing long-severed transborder contacts and trade networks, and allowing intellectuals the liberty to construct their own versions of Uyghur history. From the outset, however, this process has been problematic, heightening intra and interoasis tensions. Greater freedoms for the Uyghur people have threatened China's economic, ideological, and military control over this vital region and have produced resistance movements and separatist terror attacks. In this study, a leading expert on Central Aisa explores the history, culture, politics, and geography of Xinjiang's oasis communities, shedding new light on the competing ideas, symbols, and allegiances that make up the many diverse Uyghur identities. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork in the Xinjiang oasis of Turpan, Justin Jon Rudelson assesses the factors that undermine the creation of a pan-Uyghur identity. He explains the historical and contemporary impact of the geography of the region, where oases are relatively isolated from one another; the fragmented visions and cross-cutting allegiances of the three major social groups (intellectuals, peasants, and merchants); and the inability of the Uyghur elite who spearheaded the nationalist movement to transcend their own provincialism, thereby engendering rival oasis identities and subverting ethnic unity. Oasis identities is a vivid, ground-breaking work offering insight into not only the trumoil besetting this important but little-studied region but also the barriers facing all emerging nations and cultures struggling to define their national identities.

Oasis Identities: Uyghur Nationalism Along China's Silk Road (Social Work Knowledge)

History

Justin Jon Rudelson

Asia

Columbia University Press

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Chit-chat your way along the famous Silk Road with this broad-ranging phrasebook. And once you've made an effort to speak any of the native Central Asian languages with the locals, you won't need to look up the translation for the word 'hospitality'. Covers Uyghur, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Pashto, Tajik and more.
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<li>Covers Uyghur, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Pashto, Tajik and more </li>
<li>Individual guides to pronunciation and basic phrases </li>
<li>Fail-safe small talk </li>
<li>Practicalities - how to book a room or find a doctor </li>
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Central Asia: Lonely Planet Phrasebook

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This new phrasebook is your key to traveling the famed Silk Road, with essential words and phrases for getting around and getting to know the locals. From western Xinjiang to the Karakoram Highway you'll be able to haggle in the bazaars and order your favorite kebabs with ease.Includes comprehensive sections on Kazahk, Kyrgyz, Pashto, Tajik, Tashkorghani, Turkmen, Uyghur and Uzbeck. Also includes essential words and phrases in other languages of the region.

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Oasis Identities: Uyghur Nationalism Along China's Silk Road (Social Work Knowledge)

Central Asia: Lonely Planet Phrasebook

Central Asia: Lonely Planet Phrasebook