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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.