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The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History

Rian Thum

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$47.00 • £40.95 • €42.95

ISBN 9780674598553

Publication Date: 10/13/2014

336 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

1 map, 3 tables

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Note on Orthography
Introduction
1. The Historical Canon
2. Manuscript Technology
3. The Shrine
4. History in Motion
5. Saints of the Nation
6. The State
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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At New Statesman, read Rian Thum’s warning of the “existential threat” posed to Uyghur culture by the Chinese government (part of the February 2022 special issue, “The Silencing”)
At the Washington Post, read Thum (writing with Laura T. Murphy) on a December 2020 ban on all cotton-related imports to the United States from the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC)—a move that has the potential to disrupt both the global fashion industry and the “unfolding genocide of the Uighurs” by the Chinese government
Read an interview with Thum in the Wall Street Journal blog China Real Time
Read an excerpt from The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History in the Los Angeles Review of Books
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