Uyghurlar
Uyghurlar (in English: The Uyghurs) is a book by historian Turghun Almas on the history of the "6,000 year history" of the Uyghur ethnic group of the Xinjiang region of China.[1] It was published in the People's Republic of China in 1989, at a high point of liberalization of academic freedom and ethnic minority policy in China.[1] It was one of the books of the period that presented an "alternative Uyghur history", based on Soviet historiography during the Sino-Soviet split, that advanced the thesis that the Uyghurs are the historical owner of Xinjiang and should have an independent state.[2] It was also one of the first books to publicize the term East Turkestan, which suggests a kinship to a "West Turkestan" in the independent Central Asian states.[2] In contrast to the official Chinese history of Xinjiang, which states that the region was an integral part of China since the Han dynasty,[3] the book takes a nationalist view, saying that many "Uyghur" states throughout history were independent of or even dominant over, China.[4]
Almas had used references from both Chinese and Soviet sources to prove various theories, including that the
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A Japanese version was published in December 2019 by Shukousha.[7]
Notes
- ^ a b Westerlund, David; Svanberg, Ingvar (1999). Islam Outside the Arab World. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 208.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7546-7041-4p.42
- ^ ISBN 9781134360963.
- ^ University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies; Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center (1997). "Twentieth-century China". Twentieth-Century China, New York: 124.
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- ISBN 9780231107860.
- ISBN 978-4904213841.
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