Chinese Scholarship on Central Asia

This database collects academic books and articles by Chinese scholars about Central Asia. 

The entries were collected primarily from the CNKI (China National knowledge Infrastructure) database and the abstracts and titles have been translated into English to make the texts easiest to search on the Oxus Society website. 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 showcases the increasingly diverse range of topics explored by China’s Central Asianists and reveal the growing sophistication of Central Asian studies in China. 

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.

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 91-120 of 205 Books
Through the introduction of the country's legal system, this book shows readers the special rational humanistic society of Turkmenistan after...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Law, Turkmenistan By: Zhan Maohua
This book extracts the forestry development in this region through data collection and analysis on the status of forestry in...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Environment, Turkmenistan By: APFNet
This book includes an analysis of the portrayal of China in Kazakhstani textbooks and state media. It also surveyed and...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, International Relations, Kazakhstan By: Fan Xiaoling
This book is an ethnographic report completed by the author on the basis of more than four years of fieldwork...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, Identity, Nomadism, Xinjiang By: Chen Xiangjun
This book was born out of a research report of the same name completed by scholars from Central Asian countries...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Geopolitics, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Transition, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan By: Zu Chunming (ed.), Lin Lixuan (trans.)
This book mainly introduces the development process and experience and lessons of Tajikistan's civil war, political development, economic reform, foreign...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Economics, Politics, Tajikistan, Transition By: Zhang Zhenzhen
“Badu West Expedition” Decision-making Discussion and Related Issues – “拔都西征”决策及相关问题
Before Yuan Shizu Kublai Khan came to the throne, the Great Mongolian country had carried out three large-scale western expeditions,...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, History, Journal By: Liu Yingsheng
The diversity of human civilizations determines the existence of connection zones or "fault zones" between areas covered by different civilizations....
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Economics, Geopolitics, International Relations, Journal By: Pan Guang
The political development process of the Central Asian countries is a process of state construction and political system modernization. In...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Journal, Politics By: Bao Yi
Turning Disadvantages into Advantages—How did the Silk Road come into being? (1) Interaction of other civilization centers and the relative...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, History, Journal By: Liu Yingsheng
This paper clarifies the concept of turning to the East and points out that Russia's turning to the East is...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Geopolitics, International Relations, Journal, Russia By: Zhao Huasheng
The geopolitical posturing of major powers in Central Asia has often been referred to as a “great game,” but whose...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Geopolitics, International Relations, Journal, Russia By: Zhao Huasheng
This book focuses on the analysis of the motivations of Kazakhstan's foreign strategy, namely the formation and characteristics of Kazakhstan's...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, International Relations, Kazakhstan By: Wei Jinshen, Shu Jinglin
The Kazakhstan Railway is an important part of the railway network of the Eurasian continent, as well as a part...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Kazakhstan By: Li Baoren
Kazakhstan is an important neighbor of China and is located in the core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt....
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Economics, Kazakhstan By: Li Yongquan, Wang Xiaoquan
In 1995, Turkmenistan declared permanent neutrality. Over the past two decades, Turkmenistan after neutrality has undergone changes in various fields...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Energy, Turkmenistan By: Wang Sihai
This book discusses the development and evolution of relations between Russia and Uzbekistan since the disintegration of the Soviet Union...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, International Relations, Russia, Uzbekistan By: Song Zhiqin
Based on long-term field research and literature interpretation, the author takes the five Central Asian countries and expands to Russia,...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Energy, Geopolitics, Identity, International Relations By: Li Qi
Marked by the beginning and end of the war in Afghanistan, the strategic presence of China, Russia and the United...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Geopolitics, International Relations, Journal By: Zhao Huasheng
In July 2011, the then U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton clearly proposed the "New Silk Road" plan for the...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Geopolitics, International Relations, Journal By: Pan Guang
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
This book is centered on four Tang Dynasty documents and other related records, focusing on the major topic of "Tang...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, History By: Xu Xuya
With the development of globalization, democratic politics is becoming a value ideal and a state-governing strategy generally recognized by Central...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Geopolitics, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Politics, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan By: Zhu Xinguang, Su Ping
The independence of Central Asian countries has created new possibilities for them to independently determine their own development paths. First,...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Politics, Transition By: Li Donghai
This book is an academic work that comprehensively expounds the specific national conditions of the Central Asian country Tajikistan, covering...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Economics, Politics, Tajikistan, Transition By: Yang Bo
The drastic changes in the Middle East are spreading Salafi extremism to Central Asian, Afghanistan and Pakistan, on the Chinese...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Journal, Religion, Security By: Pan Guang, Dai Yichen, Zhang Yifeng, Zhao Guojun
After the global financial crisis in 2008, there have been subtle changes in the international structure. The soft and hard...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Economics, Geopolitics, International Relations, Journal By: Pan Guang, Dai Yichen, Zhang Yifeng, Zhao Guojun
In history, Asia used the Silk Road that traverses the east and west to promote global commodity trade and civilizational...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Geopolitics, Journal By: Pan Guang
For the past 13 years, the war in Afghanistan has dominated U.S. Central Asia policy. After withdrawing from Afghanistan, the...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Geopolitics, International Relations, Journal By: Zhao Huasheng
The text discusses issues related to the "Silk Road Economic Belt," including the status of the "Silk Road Economic Belt"...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Geopolitics, International Relations, Journal, Russia By: Zhao Huasheng