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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 62–87.
Published: 01 February 2024
... bureaus across Xinjiang—a colonial administration that encompassed all of East Turkestan—to combat smallpox outbreaks within Musulman (Uyghur) communities and the Qing army garrison. The vaccination bureau in Turpan, although led by Han vaccinators from Inner China, depended heavily on the labor...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 30 (1): 5–20.
Published: 01 November 1970
...Santosh N. Desai Abstract This paper examines the role of the Hindu Epic Rāmāyaṇa in the historical and cultural contact between India and the rest of Asia. The Rama legend—rather legends—are prevalent in almost all countries of Asia, namely China, Tibet, East Turkestan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaya...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (4): 1124–1126.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of community safety within the Chinese state. A decade later in her research among Uyghur diasporic communities in Germany and the United States, Witteborn found a near-universal usage of the term East Turkestan—which refers to the historical names of the East Turkestan Republics founded in the 1930s...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (4): 894–895.
Published: 01 November 1990
.... Linda Benson's monograph improves our knowledge by adding solid doses of local source material and some memorable "natives" to the narrative, while not ignoring vital international issues. Her account also enriches our understanding of the often vain efforts of China's governments to make East Turkestan...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (3): 628–629.
Published: 01 May 1968
... the lack but also brings up to date the story of Russian-Chinese competition on the Hi border. The monograph begins with chapters on pre-1949 Chinese policy in Dzungaria, and on the East Turkestan Republic of the late nineteen forties. The account of the latter highlights two points: the divided response...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (3): 627–628.
Published: 01 May 1968
...-Chinese competition on the Hi border. The monograph begins with chapters on pre-1949 Chinese policy in Dzungaria, and on the East Turkestan Republic of the late nineteen forties. The account of the latter highlights two points: the divided response of Sinkiang's Kazakhs to the East Turkestan Regime...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 153–155.
Published: 01 February 2022
..., published two books on the Uyghur genocide nearly simultaneously. His work addresses China's recent radical change in policies (especially since 2016) toward its Uyghur citizens in what is now called the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, which the Uyghur diaspora prefers to call East Turkestan. Documented...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (1): 168–170.
Published: 01 February 2005
..., the interviewer detoured to the touchy question of what he called the problem of East Turkestan, and asked about the occasional news that seemed to indicate that the Muslims in the region were oppressed. Mr. Yang answered with a correction: [W]e call the region Xinjiang and not East Turkestan...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (1): 170–172.
Published: 01 February 2005
... various Muslim ethnicities. After several introductory questions concerning the number of Muslims in China and their history, the interviewer detoured to the touchy question of what he called the problem of East Turkestan, and asked about the occasional news that seemed to indicate that the Muslims...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (4): 1021–1025.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., when the fleeting First Republic was established in the Tarim Basin, the Tarim Network's namesake. Replacing “Xinjiang” with “East Turkestan” altogether, the anthology culminates in a translated excerpt of Ana Yurt ( Motherland ), from which the mulberry-tree imagery is taken. But this trilogy...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (1): 235–236.
Published: 01 February 2016
... that they “covertly agreed on the definition and interest of the East Turkestani/Uyghur nation in East Turkestan Xinjiang” (p. 248). To my mind, any such convergence simply reflects the slippery, obfuscatory nature of nationalist rhetoric. For Klimeš, though, it serves as evidence that Uyghur intellectuals have...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 446–448.
Published: 01 May 2024
... animals in early twentieth-century East Turkestan. Turning to the study of literature, Claus V. Pedersen shows how Persian literature has evolved since the turn of the twenty-first century from a literature dominated by “political commitment” to a form that is more international and accessible. In his...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (4): 800–801.
Published: 01 November 2022
... historiography, which downplays Uyghur political agency and overstates foreign interference, Millward shows that while Soviet influences gave rise to the East Turkestan movements, they assisted rather than created Uyghur ethno-nationalism. Weak central governments allowed de facto local rule, this time...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (1): 231–232.
Published: 01 February 2002
... pp. $32.00 (paper). Set in the backdrop of the Second World War and the Chinese civil war, the rise and fall of the ephemeral East Turkestan Republic (ETR) in the three northwestern districts of Xinjiang (Yili, Tacheng, and Ashan) between 1944 and 1949 is a particularly intriguing historical episode...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (3): 570–571.
Published: 01 May 1980
... region. In this regard, his use of the term "pro-Soviet" for groups in Xinjiang, particularly those proximate to Soviet territory, weakens the author's otherwise careful and rigorous approach. On the one hand, those Uighurs, Kazakhs, and Kirghiz who enjoyed Soviet support in the 1944 45 "East Turkestan...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (2): 545–591.
Published: 01 May 2008
... general Zhang Zhizhong to fly to far-off Xinjiang and begin negotiations with the leaders of the by then self-proclaimed East Turkestan Republic (ETR) (Ui., Şärqi Türkistan Jumhuriyäti; Ch., Dong Tu-er-qi-si-tan Gongheguo ). 3 Zhang's immediate objectives were to effect a halt on the rebel...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (1): 185–187.
Published: 01 February 1995
... exactions. Or that Urumqi, now 80 percent Chinesespeaking and a major industrial base, has come a long way from the time when Guomindang troops and the Muslim soldiers of the East Turkestan Republic faced each other across the Manas River, seventy miles to the west. Or that life among the tin miners...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 February 2024
... imperial conquest of East Turkestan in the late nineteenth century. With fine-tuned insight on the complexity of medical history, Kind makes a persuasive argument for how translation, technology, and therapeutics constitute the ways and means of biopower in a frontier environment. He points out how...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1963) 22 (5): 70–71.
Published: 01 September 1963
... IAKUTSKOI ASSR, Khaba- rovsk, 1961. Bogatstva zemli na sluzhbu rodine; materialy soveshchaniia. Moskva, 1962. 131 p. Articles ALMGREN, BERTIL. Geographical aspects of the silk road especially in Persia and East Turkestan. BMFEA 34 (1962), 93-106. maps. HAMILTON, JAMES. Toquz-OTUZ et On-Uyyur. 7/4 250(1962...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (1): 232–234.
Published: 01 February 2002
... Incident: Ethnic Conflicts and International Rivalry in Xinjiang, 1944-1949. By D A V I D D. W A N G . Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1999- ix, 577 pp. $32.00 (paper). Set in the backdrop of the Second World War and the Chinese civil war, the rise and fall of the ephemeral East Turkestan Republic...
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