Kashgar Revisited: Uyghur Studies in Memory of Ambassador Gunnar Jarring: (34 Brill's Inner Asian Library)

Building on the rich scholarly legacy of Gunnar Jarring, the Swedish Turkologist and diplomat, the fourteen contributions by sixteen authors representing a variety of disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences provide an insight into ongoing research trends in Uyghur and Xinjiang Studies. In one way or other all the chapters explore how new research in the fields of history, linguistics, anthropology and folklore can contribute to our understanding of Xinjiang’s past and present, simultaneously pointing to those social and knowledge practices that Uyghurs today can claim as part of their traditions in order to reproduce and perpetuate their cultural identity. Contributors include: Ildikó Bellér-Hann, Rahile Dawut, Arienne Dwyer, Fredrik Fällman, Chris Hann, Dilmurat Mahmut, Takahiro Onuma, Alexandre Papas, Eric Schluessel, Birgit Schlyter, Joanne Smith Finley, Rune Steenberg Jun Sugawara, Äsäd Sulaiman, Abdurishid Yakup, Thierry Zarcone.

Table of Contents:
Preface List of Figures and Tables A Note on Transliteration and Spelling Notes on Contributors Introduction: In the Footsteps of Ambassador Gunnar Jarring  Ildikó Bellér-Hann, Birgit N. Schlyter, Jun Sugawara Part 1: Language 1 From the Private Library of Gunnar Jarring and His New Eastern Turki Dictionary  Birgit N. Schlyter 2 Manuscript Technologies, Writing, and Reading in Early 20th Century Kashgar  Arienne M. Dwyer 3 From Eastern Turki to Modern Uyghur: A Lexicological Study of Prints from the Swedish Mission Press in Kashgar (1892–1938)  Äsäd Sulaiman 4 The Khotan Varieties of Uyghur as Seen in Jarring’s Transcription  Abdurishid Yakup Part 2: History 5 The 1795 Khoqand Mission and Its Negotiations with the Qing: Political and Diplomatic Space of Qing Kashgaria  Takahiro Onuma 6 Muslims at the Yamen Gate: Translating Justice in Late-Qing Xinjiang  Eric T. Schluessel 7 Models and Realities: Aspects of Format in Real Estate Deeds under Conditions of Legal Pluralism in Xinjiang  Jun Sugawara 8 Muslim Reformism in Xinjiang: Reading the Newspaper Yengī Ḥayāt (1934–1937)  Alexandre Papas 9 Defining the Past and Shaping the Future: Reflections on Xinjiang Narratives, Uyghur-Han-Hui Relations, and the Perspectives of Research  Fredrik Fällman Part 3: Religion 10 Writing the Religious and Social History of Some Sufi Lodges in Kashgar in the 20th Century  Thierry Zarcone 11 Ordam Mazar: A Meeting Place for Different Practices and Belief Systems in Culturally Diverse Xinjiang  Rahile Dawut 12 Magic, Science, and Religion in Eastern Xinjiang  Chris Hann and Ildikó Bellér-Hann Part 4: Kinship and Gender 13 “Keep the wealth within the Family”: Cousin Marriage and Swedish Uncles in Kashgar  Rune Steenberg 14 “A man works on the land, a woman works for her man”: Building on Jarring’s Fascination with Eastern Turki Proverbs  Dilmurat Mahmut [Dilimulati Maihemuti] and Joanne Smith Finley Index

About the Author :
Ildikó Bellér-Hann (PhD 1989, habilitation 2005) is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen. Her numerous publications on the anthropology and history of the Uyghur of Xinjiang include Community Matters in Xinjiang 1880-1949 (Brill 2008). Birgit N. Schlyter (PhD 1985) is Professor of Central Asian Studies at Stockholm University. She has published extensively in Turkic linguistics and is the editor of Gunnar Jarring’s unpublished last manuscript, a comprehensive Uyghur-English dialect dictionary. Jun Sugawara (MA 1992) is Research Fellow at the Institute for Global Area Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He has published a dictionary and numerous articles on the history and language of Uyghurs, including A Concise Modern Uyghur-Japanese Dictionary (ILCAA 2009)