Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia, Schluessel^+

Columbia University Press

Land of Strangers\nby Eric Schluessel\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Eric Schluessel\nTitle: Land of Strangers\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History\nPublisher: Columbia University Press\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9780231197557\nISBN-10: 0231197551\nRRP: \u00A330.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nEric Schluessel explores the late nineteenth-century encounter between Chinese power and a Muslim society through the struggles of ordinary people in the oasis of Turpan. He traces the emergence of new struggles around essential questions of identity, recasting the attempted transformation of Xinjiang as a distinctly Chinese form of colonialism.\n\nEric Schluessel explores the late nineteenth-century encounter between Chinese power and a Muslim society through the stru.