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Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia

by Eric Schluessel

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 c

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

304

ISBN

9780231197540