The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land

Furthermore, as a number of scholars have argued, both the Soviet Union and the PRC strengthened novel or weakly rooted identities in many groups by institutionalizing them, assigning people to discrete ethnonational categories and distributing goods or authority on the basis of those…

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national self-determination (minzu zijue)

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Official sources later announced that years earlier, the leader, Zaydin Yusup, had begun recruiting forces for the uprising.

Thus, only in the ninth century did peoples bearing the collective name Uyghur settle in the Tarim Basin (…

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Chinese historians confronted a similar challenge.lhey, too, had to assign Uyghurs a clear date of ethnogenesis and a continuous existence since that date,14 and they also needed to demonstrate that Uyghurs' history was a component part of the…

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One of my aims is to explore exactly how and why such groups contest state efforts to incorporate them into the nation.

Initial figures counted i56 dead, 123 of them Han Chinese and 33 Uyghurs, and…

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Finally, my main aim is to elucidate how the global currents just described-the renewed significance of nationalism, the tension between sovereignty and self-determination, the possibility of humanitarian intervention, and the heightened perception of an Islamic threat in the non-Muslim world-have combined to make the contention between Uyghurs and