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The ethnogenesis of the Uighur
Central Asian survey • 9 (1) • Published In 1990 • Pages: 1-28
By: Gladney, Dru C..
Abstract
The Uyghurs are a Turkic-speaking, Muslim, oasis-dwelling people who claim to have lived in Tarim Basin area since time immemorial. Historically, a seventh century Uyghur Kingdom rose in the Outer Mongolian area, alongside the Han Chinese Empire of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Islamization began in the tenth century. Despite conquest by the Qing Dynasty in the mid-eighteenth century, the Xinjiang region was only fully incorporated into the empire during the next century through encouragement of Han resettlement. In the 1940s, the Soviet Union and China began to refer to the oasis people of the region as "Uyghurs." The author discusses the multiple, shifting markers of identity in the region, based on differences in religion, territory, language, class, and politics. The incorporation of the region into a modern socialist state has had a unifying effect on Uyghur identity and ethnicity.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2023
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- Central Asia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2014
- Field Date
- 1987
- Coverage Date
- 745-1988
- Coverage Place
- Inner Asia
- Notes
- Dru C. Gladney
- Uyghur relationship to Han Chinese and China is variously indexed by ocm's for "International relations" (648), "Provinces" (635), "Dependencies" (636), and "Inter-ethnic relations" (629).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 24-28)
- LCCN
- 86641151
- LCSH
- Uighur (Turkic people)