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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schluessel, Eric (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.