Are Uyghur History Books Accessible in China?

In this talk, historian Rian Thum interviews Eric Schluessel about his new translation of The Tarikh-i Ḥamidi, an early 20th century history of Xinjiang, originally written by Musa Sayrami. It chronicles a Muslim rebellion against the Qing empire in the late 19th century, presenting a distinctly Uyghur perspective on China, Eurasia, and the world.
This in-person conversation took place on Tuesday, 7th May 2024 at the Manchester China Institute (MCI).
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Eric Schluessel is a social historian of China and Central Asia, and his work focuses on Xinjiang (East Turkestan) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. "Land of Strangers", his first monograph, uses local archival and manuscript sources in Chinese and Chaghatay Turkic to explore the ramifications of a project undertaken in the last decades of the Qing empire to transform Xinjiang’s Turkic-speaking Muslims into Chinese-speaking Confucians. He is currently an Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University.
Rian Thum is a specialist in the history and anthropology of Muslims in China at the University of Manchester, where he is a Senior Lecturer in East Asian History. His book, "The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History", argues for the central role of sacred sites and local Islamic texts in the maintenance of Uyghur identity. Thum is Associate Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies and a former fellow of the National Humanities Center and the American Council of Learned Societies.
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