Holy war in China : the Muslim rebellion and state in Chinese Central Asia, 1864-1877 / Hodong Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Ho-dong, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--History--19th century.

China.

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)--History--19th century.

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China).

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)--Ethnic relations--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Other Title:

Muslim rebellion and state in Chinese Central Asia, 1864-1877

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In July 2009, violence erupted among Uyghurs, Chinese state police, and Han residents of Ürümqi, the capital city of Xinjiang, in northwest China, making international headlines, and introducing many to tensions in the area. But conflict in the region has deep roots. Now available in paperback, Holy War in China remains the first comprehensive and balanced history of a late nineteenth-century Muslim rebellion in Xinjiang, which led to the establishment of an independent Islamic state under Ya'qūb Beg. That independence was lost in 1877, when the Qing army recaptured the region and incorporated it into the Chinese state, known today as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Hodong Kim offers readers the first English-language history of the rebellion since 1878 to be based on primary sources in Islamic languages as well as Chinese, complemented by British and Ottoman archival documents and secondary sources in Russian, English, Japanese, Chinese, French, German, and Turkish. His pioneering account of past events offers much insight into current relations.

Contents:

Xinjiang in revolt

The emergence of Ya'qb Beg's regime

Muslim state and its ruling structure

Formation of new international relations

Collapse of the Muslim state.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8047-6723-8

1-4175-1946-0

OCLC:

70771964