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Auteur(s) : Schluessel, Eric
Titre(s) : Land of strangers [Texte imprimé] : the civilizing project in Qing Central Asia / Eric Schluessel
Publication : New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Press, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-289 p.) : cartes ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 263-279. Index. - John K. Fairbank Prize, 2021
"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 deepened, resulting in a profound estrangement that continues to
this day. In Land of Strangers, Eric Schluessel explores this encounter between Chinese
power and a Muslim society through the struggles of ordinary people in the oasis of
Turpan. He follows the stories of families divided by war, women desperate to survive,
children unsure where they belong, and many others to reveal the human consequences
of a bloody conflict and the more insidious violence of reconstruction. Schluessel
traces the emergence of new struggles around essential questions of identity, showing
how religious and linguistic differences converged into ethnic labels. Reading across
local archives and manuscript accounts in the Chinese and Chaghatay languages, he
recasts the attempted transformation of Xinjiang as a distinctly Chinese form of colonialism.
At a time when understanding the roots of the modern relationship between Uyghurs
and China has taken on new urgency, Land of Strangers illuminates a crucial moment
of social and cultural change in this dark period of Xinjiang's past"
Sujet(s) : Conditions sociales -- Xinjiang (Chine) -- 19e siècle
Confucianisme -- Relations -- Islam -- Xinjiang (Chine) -- 19e siècle
Confucianisme et État -- Xinjiang (Chine) -- 19e siècle
Islam et État -- Xinjiang (Chine) -- 19e siècle
Ouïgours (peuple turc) -- Relations avec l'État -- Xinjiang (Chine) -- 19e siècle
Chine -- 1644-1912 (Dynastie mandchoue)
Indice(s) Dewey :
951.603 5 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Chine - Xinjiang Weiwuer Zizhiqu (région autonome) - 1864-1911
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780231197540. - ISBN 0231197543. - ISBN 9780231197557. - ISBN 0231197551 (br.).
- ISBN 9780231552226 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47273458c
Notice n° :
FRBNF47273458
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : The Chinese law : the origins of the civilizing project -- ; Xinjiang as exception
: the transformation of the civilizing project -- ; Frontier mediation : the rise
of the interpreters -- ; Bad women and lost children : the sexual economy of Confucian
colonialism -- ; Recollecting bones : the Muslim uprisings as historical trauma --
; Historical estrangement and the end of empire.
