The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History
(2014)
Book
Thum, R. (2014). The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History. Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674736238
Outputs (36)
On standing one's ground (2014)
Journal Article
Sinclair, N. (2014). On standing one's ground. Analysis, 74(3),I provide a positive expressivist account of the permissibility of ‘standing one’s ground’ in some cases of moral conflict, based in part on an illustrative analogy with political disputes. This account suffices to undermine Enoch’s recent argument a... Read More about On standing one's ground.
Influence in British Colonial Africa (2014)
Book Chapter
Law, K., & Jackson, A. (2014). Influence in British Colonial Africa. In G. Kennedy, & C. Tuck (Eds.), British Propaganda and Wars of Empire: Influencing Friend and Foe 1900–2010 (97-122). Farnham: Ashgate PublishingIn the lexicon of European de-colonisation, counter-insurgency campaigns were fought against anti-imperialism across the periphery of empire from Vietnam to Algeria and from Kenya to Malaya. British propagandists hoped to persuade the inhabitants of... Read More about Influence in British Colonial Africa.
From villains to victims: experiencing illness in Siberian exile (2013)
Journal Article
Badcock, S. (2013). From villains to victims: experiencing illness in Siberian exile. Europe-Asia Studies, 65(9), https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2013.840116This essay presents the subjective experience of life and sickness for the punished in late Imperial Siberia, and the distinctions the punished made between legitimate and illegitimate forms of punishment. The essay also explores state policies towar... Read More about From villains to victims: experiencing illness in Siberian exile.
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/10.1080/02634937.2012.722366Kashgar'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/s0021911812000629This 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.