The Muslim Emperor of China: Everyday Politics in Colonial Xinjiang, 1877-1933
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Eric Tanner Schluessel
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Elliott, Mark
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Harvard University
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2016
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
469
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Alford, William; Beller-Hann, Ildiko; Szonyi, Michael
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-03800-2
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Body granting the degree
Harvard University
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2016
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This dissertation concerns the ways in which a Chinese civilizing project intervened powerfully in cultural and social change in the Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang from the 1870s through the 1930s. I demonstrate that the efforts of officials following an ideology of domination and transformation rooted in the Chinese Classics changed the ways that people associated with each other and defined themselves and how Muslims understood their place in history and in global space. Chinese power is central to the history of modern Xinjiang and to the Uyghur people, not only because the Chinese center has dominated the area as a periphery, but because of the ways in which that power intervened in society and culture on the local level.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Asian History
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Social sciences;Central Asia;China;History;Hunan;Islam;Qing;Uyghur;Xinjiang