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Turdaliyeva's book illuminates Valikhanov's little-known essays on Kyrgyz history and culture.
Category: Central Asia, Culture, Kyrgyzstan By: Cholpon Turdalieva
The five Central Asian countries are located in the hinterland of the Eurasian continent. They are not only strategically important,...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, Geography, History, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan By: Wu Hongwei
The first photographic documentation of Muslim cemeteries in Central Asia, this collection presents ethnographic material from collaborative field research in...
Category: Central Asia, Culture, History, Kyrgyzstan, Religion By: Nasser Rabbat, Elmira Köchümkulova, Altyn Kapalova
This book is the result of three years of research on Holy sites, which was carried out by the Aigine...
Category: Central Asia, Culture, History, Kyrgyzstan, Religion By: Gulnara Aitpaeva
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
Three essays—by a historian of Central Asian Islam, a Uyghur folklorist, and the curator of an accompanying exhibition at the...
Category: Central Asia, Culture, History, Identity, Religion, Uyghur, Xinjiang By: Rahile Dawut
"Xiaoerjin Research (3 volumes)" is three volumes, "Xiaoerjin Research - History, Writing and Documents" is the first volume. Xiaoerjin is...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, History By: Liu Yingsheng
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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 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 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
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 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