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Nomadic culture, together with agricultural and industrial culture, is an important part of the history of human civilization. The number...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, History, Identity
By:Xiang Yingjie

Outline of the History of the Yarkand Khanate, a Sunni Muslim Turkic state ruled by the Mongol descendants of Chagatai...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, History, Religion, Uyghur, Xinjiang
By:Wei Liangtao

This book contains the author's articles on the history and geography of the Western Regions and cultural exchanges between China...
Category: Central Asia, Culture, History, Xinjiang
By:Zhang Guangda, Rong Xinjiang

The development of the Southwest Silk Road is not only earlier than the Northwest Silk Road, but also its magnificent...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, History
By:Deng Tingliang


The main display here is the Silk Road from Chang’an to Congling in the Han and Tang Dynasties. It was...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, History
By:Huang Xinya

The study of the Khoja clans in the Western Regions is a book, that makes full use of newly published...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, History, Identity, Uyghur, Xinjiang
By:Liu Zhengyin, Wei Liangtao

In order to further strengthen the unity of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang and promote the sustainable and healthy development...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, History, Identity, Religion, Uyghur, Xinjiang
By:Tian Weijiang, Chen Chao, Ma Pinyan

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

"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

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

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 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

"Research on the Social Organization of Turkic Nationalities" combines anthropology and history, using conflict theory, symbol theory, cultural integration and...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, Identity
By:Guo Hongzhen

Chinese ethnology has its own characteristics, which are mainly reflected in the following five aspects: 1. In terms of guiding...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, Identity, Kazakhstan, Migration, Nomadism, Xinjiang
By:Wang Xilong, Wang Jinguo

The book explores the history of komuz melodies, which have preserved Kyrgyz history and culture for many centuries.
Category: Central Asia, Culture, Kyrgyzstan
By:Asan Kaybilda uulu

Abdali's monograph is an excellent work with both important theoretical and academic value and strong practical significance. Abdali made an...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, History, Identity, Transition, Xinjiang
By:Xialipuhan Abudali

The book provides a comparative analysis of folklore, mythology, and literature in Kazakhstan.
Category: Central Asia, Culture, Kazakhstan
By:Seit Kaskabasov

This book maps developmental trends of Kazakh national choreography in the post-independence period. The book includes reviews of ballet festivals,...
Category: Central Asia, Culture, Kazakhstan
By:Gulnar Zhumaseitova

Central Asia and China have had close relations since ancient times. Thanks to the introduction of diverse Western civilizations, China...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, History
By:Liu Xuezhao

More than 600 Turkmen ethnographic terms have been deciphered by the author which allows us to understand the inner world...
Category: Central Asia, Culture, History, Language, Turkmenistan
By:Shokhrat Kadyrov

Tlostanova examines Central Asia and the Caucasus to trace the genealogy of feminism in those regions following the dissolution of...
Category: Central Asia, Culture, Gender, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Politics, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
By:Madina Tlostanova

This book focuses on the urban development of Central Kazakhstan, especially Karaganda, during the period after World War II, when...
Category: Central Asia, Culture, History, Kazakhstan
By:Z. G. Saktaganova

Starting from the Kazakh nation's philosophical outlook and outlook on nature, this book systematically expounds on the "six elements" theory...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, Xinjiang
By:Simahule Nubaheti

Based on evidence derived from over fifteen years of fieldwork, From Shamanism to Sufism shows how women kept traditional Islamic...
Category: Central Asia, Culture, Gender, Religion
By:Razia Sultanova

A study of twentieth-century Uzbek literature in the US. In the book the author provides a useful survey of the...
Category: Central Asia, Culture, Uzbekistan
By:Zulxumor Mirzaeva

This work studies the evolution of Kazakh theatrical traditions since the crisis era of the 1990s and the emergence of...
Category: Central Asia, Culture, Kazakhstan
By:Amankeldi Mukan

Altai is one of the central areas of the cradle of ancient civilizations in Central Asia, and it is the...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, History, Nomadism, Religion
By:Zhang Zhiyao

Focusing on migrants from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, this study shows that the transfers of resources between receiving and sending...
Category: Central Asia, Culture, Economics, Kyrgyzstan, Migration, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
By:Delia Rahmonova-Schwarz

This book provides a linguistic analysis of Central Asia. The first part assesses the four Turkic Central Asian countries of...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, History, Identity, Language, Migration
By:Wang Xinqing, Guo Weidong