An Insider's Critique of the Kazakh Nation offers "a window on the Kazakh world" through the eyes of one of...

The book examines the Soviet experience in constructing socialist nations while preserving a unitary political and state regime. The communist...

By analyzing the whole human genome sequence for the Shirenzigou site, and with the reference from the ancient genetics information...

The oasis kingdoms around the Tarim Basin were important places for business and migration of the Sogdians who lived along...

Central Asian Chinese Donggan literature actively absorbs the essence and heterogeneous factors of Russian culture. It is not only deeply...

Language policy has always been an important component in the construction of national unity in multi-ethnic countries. After the disintegration...

"A Study on Ethnic Conflict and Countermeasure: A Case Study of the Ethnic Conflict in Southern Kyrgyzstan" is based on...

The monograph examines the specific features of the problems of multiculturalism in Tajikistan. It offers a new approach to assessing...

Pamiris, or Badakhshanis in popular discourse, form a small group of Iranic peoples who inhabit the mountainous region of the...

Turaeva's book is an ethnographic and sociolinguistic study of Uzbek migrants in Tashkent. The ethnographic details of the book represent...

Identity and Memory in Post-Soviet Central Asia looks at the tradition of historical construction in Central Asia. By collecting views...

Rewriting the Nation in Modern Kazakh Literature is a book about cultural transformations and trajectories of national imagination in modern...

The book explores the gendered aspects of the construction of Soviet identity, focusing on the formation of the new Soviet...

This book is an ethnographic report completed by the author on the basis of more than four years of fieldwork...

Abykayeva-Tiesenhausen re-evaluates the imperial project of the Soviet state, placing the Orientalist undercurrent found within art and propaganda production in...

The book provides an interpretation of the notion "national identity" in the scientific discourse and traces back the influence globalisation...

Despite Cultures examines the realities of Soviet state-building in Tajikistan throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Based on extensive archival research,...

Based on long-term field research and literature interpretation, the author takes the five Central Asian countries and expands to Russia,...

In Uyghurs and Uyghur Identity, Dr. Dolkun Kamberi helps readers understand Uyghur culture, language, literature, history, art, and religious identity,...

The book provides an overview and analysis of the political thought and ideology in independent Kazakhstan.

This book is devoted to the history of economic and cultural transformations that took place in northern Tajikistan during the...

This book provides a linguistic analysis of Central Asia. The first part assesses the four Turkic Central Asian countries of...

Three essays—by a historian of Central Asian Islam, a Uyghur folklorist, and the curator of an accompanying exhibition at the...

This book reflects the life of Turkmen people from the origins of their proto-ethnicity to the emergence of a modern...

Based on 20 years of archaeological research in the Naryn region, historian and archaeologist Kubat Tabaldiev presents evidence of the...

The ethnic issue was one of the fundamental reasons for the disintegration of the Soviet Union. As a republic of...

The book examines the development of Soviet politics in political-administrative and sociocultural terms with regard to national minorities. The creation...

The book is a continuation of the manuals "Vatan Tarixi" (The History of Fatherland) first published in 1997. It analyzes...

Abdali's monograph is an excellent work with both important theoretical and academic value and strong practical significance. Abdali made an...

Chinese ethnology has its own characteristics, which are mainly reflected in the following five aspects: 1. In terms of guiding...