Land of Strangers

He uncovers many fascinating stories about the people who mediated the relationship between rulers and ruled, concluding with a nuanced discussion of comparative colonialism...Highly recommended.

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Eric 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.

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Acknowledgments
A Note on Conventions
Introduction
1. The Chinese Law: The Origins of the Civilizing Project
2. Xinjiang as Exception: The Transformation of the Civilizing Project
3. Frontier Mediation: The Rise of the Interpreters
4. Bad Women and Lost Children: The Sexual Economy of Confucian Colonialism
5. Recollecting Bones: The Muslim Uprisings as Historical Trauma
6. Historical Estrangement and the End of Empire
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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