Land of strangers : the civilizing project in Qing Central Asia / Eric Schluessel.
Land of strangers : the civilizing project in Qing Central Asia / Eric Schluessel.
Land of strangers : the civilizing project in Qing Central Asia / Eric Schluessel.
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New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
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G 2020/3930
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English
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xiv, 289 pages : maps ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Chapter 1. The Chinese law : the origins of the civilizing project -- Chapter 2. Xinjiang as exception : the transformation of the civilizing project -- Chapter 3. Frontier mediation : the rise of the interpreters -- Chapter 4. Bad women and lost children : the sexual economy of Confucian colonialis...
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New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
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New York (State)
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[2020]
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"At the close of the nineteenth century, near the end of the Qing empire, Confucian revivalists from central China gained control of the Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang, or East Turkestan. There they undertook a program to transform Turkic-speaking Muslims into Chinese-speaking Confucians, seeking to bind this population and their homeland to th...
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Land of strangers : the civilizing project in Qing Central Asia / Eric Schluessel.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2020/3930
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74VKaMJM2Lzd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaMJM2Lzd
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0231197551 paperback
9780231197540 hardcover
0231197543 hardcover
9780231197557 paperback
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951.6035
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991024347718002626
