Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia

Author/Contributor(s):	Schluessel, Eric
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	10/20/2020
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Eric Schluessel explores the late nineteenth-century encounter between Chinese power and a Muslim society through the struggles of ordinary people in the oasis of Turpan. He traces the emergence of new struggles around essential questions of identity, recasting the attempted transformation of Xinjiang as a distinctly Chinese form of colonialism.