Scholars of Central Asia Book Database

The Scholars of Central Asia Book Database is intended to showcase the work of scholars from Central Asia.

The entries have been compiled through keyword searches on publishers’ websites, research bibliographies and searches within library collections. The inclusion criteria for the database are the following:

  • Single or multiple author monographs;
  • Works of non-fiction within the social sciences and humanities;
  • Authored or co-authored by at least one person who was born in Central Asia;
  • Published since 1991;
  • Published in any language.

The database includes entries in English, Russian and local languages from Central Asia. Entries appear in reverse chronological order by year of publication.

We update the database on a continuing basis as new work is published and we discover missing entries. This database is far from comprehensive, but it is our hope that the project will grow over time into an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners working on the region.

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Showing 31-60 of 376 Books
This book explores the problem of ethnicity in Kyrgyzstan. To achieve the objective, the author makes a careful examination of...
Category: Central Asia, History, Identity, Kyrgyzstan, Language By:Cholpon Chotaeva
The book includes a general discussion of Chaghatay Uyghur linguistic characteristics, and the grammar of the Chaghatay Uyghur language. It...
Category: Central Asia, Language, Xinjiang By:Teklimakaniy Abdureup Pulat
"Central Asian Population Issues" is divided into nine chapters. The first chapter introduces the status of the population in Central...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, Geography, History, Identity, Migration By:Wu Hongwei
The book covers China's Uzbek ethnic group from multiple perspectives including ecology, transnational development, economic transition, cultural transfornation, regional cooperation,...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, Economics, History, Identity, Xinjiang By:Zhao Xiaogang
From the kidnapping of two Chinese engineers in Pakistan--a new wave of terrorist attacks On October 9, two Chinese engineers...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, International Relations, Journal, Security By:Pan Guang
As a set of norms and the theoretical system it nurtured, the "Shanghai Five"- now the Shanghai Cooperation Organization -...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, International Relations, Journal By:Pan Guang, Zhou Guojian
This book is an analytical study of the situation in Central Asia in 2004-2005. After the period of "warmth and...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Politics, Transition By:Pan Zhiping
Globalization affects almost all spheres of social life, including politics, culture, and the very conditions of human existence. This book...
Category: Central Asia, International Relations, Politics, Tajikistan By:Rustam Haydarov
The book focuses on the major steps in developing and building statehood. It familiarizes the reader with Kazakhstan's history, the...
Category: Central Asia, Identity, Kazakhstan, Politics By:Anton Morozov
The book focuses on Uyghur history, starting with the first Uyghur Empire, founded by the Oghuzkhan dynasty, which ruled 5,000...
Category: Central Asia, History, Identity, Xinjiang By:Sabit Abdurahman
This book is an in-depth and systematic exposition of the historical development process of the five contemporary Central Asian countries,...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, History, Identity By:Ma Dazheng, Feng Xishi
The privileges obtained by the modern British in Xinjiang that are discussed in this article mainly refer to the appointment...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, History, Xinjiang By:Xu Jianying
While utilizing domestic resources, vigorously developing foreign oil and gas resources, and striving to achieve multi-channel import of oil and...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Energy, Geopolitics, International Relations, Journal By:Pan Guang
Before the events of 9/11, Central Asia was not a priority in U.S. grand strategy. After, when counterterrorism became the...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Geopolitics, International Relations, Journal By:Pan Guang
This is the concept of the West, it can be said to be a discourse of the West, these countries...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Geopolitics, Politics, Security, Transition By:Pan Zhiping
These particularly detailed memoirs cover Khodizoda's childhood, education, and career. Khodizoda also provides detail on his experiences writing a novel...
Category: Central Asia, Culture, Tajikistan By:Rasul Khodizoda
This monograph is devoted to the history of the creation of an autonomous democratic republic in Turkestan, the Kokand Autonomy,...
Category: Central Asia, History, Uzbekistan By:Saidakbar Agzamhojaev
The main contents of this book include: the political exchanges between the Sui and Tang Dynasties and the Central Asian...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, History, Migration By:Han Xiang
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Economics, Geopolitics, International Relations, Journal By:Pan Guang
This book provides a systematic introduction to the ethnic issues in the Soviet Union, starting from Tsarist Russia, to Lenin,...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, History, Identity, Transition By:Zhao Changqing, Chen Lianbo, Liu Gengcen, Dong Xiaoyang
The book is about tragic events connected to mass exodus of Kyrgyz refugees as well as Kazakhs and Dungans to...
Category: Central Asia, History, Kyrgyzstan By:David Budiyansky
This book describes the socio-political development of the Khorezm oasis in the second half of the 19th century and the...
Category: Central Asia, History, Uzbekistan By:Atamurod Kushzhanov, Nematzhon Polvonov
This book offers an interpretation of the decorations on the roof of the Sherdor madrasah, built by the mayor of...
Category: Central Asia, Culture, Uzbekistan By:Saidahbor Bulatov
The book explores the influence of China on the history of Central Asia from ancient times to the formation of...
Category: Central Asia, International Relations, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Xinjiang By:Abdulakhad Khodjayev
Academic Rahim Masov's History of a National Catastrophe deals with the delicate issue of the national-administrative divisions of Central Asia....
Category: Central Asia, History, Identity, Tajikistan By:Rahim Masov
This book explores the history and development of Islam, with particular reference to the role of women in Uzbek society....
Category: Central Asia, Gender, Religion, Uzbekistan By:Marfua Tokhtakhodjaeva
The book focuses on the topics of political modernization, power, elites, opposition, civil society, and elections in Kazakhstan.
Category: Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Politics By:Sabit Zhusupov
The book is composed of oral stories, letters and diaries of fifteen women from Uzbekistan. Their memories span more than...
Category: Central Asia, Gender, History, Uzbekistan By:Marfua Tokhtakhodjaeva
The author believes that the history and cultural connotation of the Western Regions is extremely rich, and worthy of a...
Category: Central Asia, Identity, Religion, Xinjiang By:Zhang Guangda
From the author's point of view, a large number of newly unearthed texts and images from the Middle Ages of...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Xinjiang By:Zhang Guangda