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Land of Strangers
The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia
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Eric Schluessel
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English
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2020
About this book
Eric Schluessel explores the late nineteenth-century encounter between Chinese power and a Muslim society through the struggles of ordinary people in the oasis of Turpan. He traces the emergence of new struggles around essential questions of identity, recasting the attempted transformation of Xinjiang as a distinctly Chinese form of colonialism.
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Eric Schluessel is assistant professor of modern Chinese history at the George Washington University.
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Tobie Meyer-Fong, author of What Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War in Nineteenth-Century China:
An expert collector, reader, and translator of difficult materials, Schluessel provides us with a window into frontier society in the late nineteenth century. Land of Strangers is an exceptionally well-researched work grounded in a stunning assortment of primary sources, replete with memorable close-up encounters with an engaging cast of characters.
An expert collector, reader, and translator of difficult materials, Schluessel provides us with a window into frontier society in the late nineteenth century. Land of Strangers is an exceptionally well-researched work grounded in a stunning assortment of primary sources, replete with memorable close-up encounters with an engaging cast of characters.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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A Note on Conventions
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Introduction
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One The Chinese Law The Origins of the Civilizing Project
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Two Xinjiang as Exception The Transformation of the Civilizing Project
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Three Frontier Mediation The Rise of the Interpreters
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Four Bad Women and Lost Children The Sexual Economy of Confucian Colonialism
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Five Recollecting Bones The Muslim Uprisings as Historical Trauma
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Six Historical Estrangement and the end of Empire
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Conclusion
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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December 10, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9780231552226
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4 maps
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9780231552226
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