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Beyond resistance and nationalism: local history and the case of Afaq Khoja (2012)
Journal Article
Thum, R. (2012). Beyond resistance and nationalism: local history and the case of Afaq Khoja. Central Asian Survey, 31(3), 293-310. https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2012.722366

Kashgar's seventeenth-century ruler-saint, Afaq Khoja, is remarkable for the amount of historical writing he has inspired, both outside and within Chinese Turkestan. His reputation among Uyghur historians is one of the few aspects of local Uyghur his... Read More about Beyond resistance and nationalism: local history and the case of Afaq Khoja.

Modular History: Identity Maintenance before Uyghur Nationalism (2012)
Journal Article
Thum, R. (2012). Modular History: Identity Maintenance before Uyghur Nationalism. Journal of Asian Studies, 71(3), 627-653. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021911812000629

This paper investigates how a regional identity can be maintained in a nonmodern context, focusing on the case of southern Xinjiang in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The argument focuses on one aspect of this identity system, the... Read More about Modular History: Identity Maintenance before Uyghur Nationalism.