Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia

by Eric Schluessel

Book Overview

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 to bind this population and their homeland to the Chinese cultural and political realm. Instead of assimilation, divisions between communities only...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231197551
• ISBN13: 9780231197557
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.7" x 8.7"