Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier

by David Brophy

The meeting of the Russian and Qing empires in the nineteenth century had dramatic consequences for Central Asia's Muslim communities. Along this frontier, a new political space emerged, shaped by competing imperial and spiritual loyalties, cross-border economic and social ties, and the revolutions that engulfed Russia and China in the early twentieth century. David Brophy explores how a community of Central Asian Muslims responded to these historic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674660374
• ISBN13: 9780674660373
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"