Virtual workshop: Book Talk – Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central AsiaBook Talk: Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia
Workshop Virtual workshop: Book Talk-Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia Date & Time 14. 12. 2020; 4PM Location Online via Zoom: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/6609624006 Abstract At the close of the nineteenth century, near the end of the Qing empire, Confucian revivalists from central China gained control of the Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang, or East Turkestan. There they undertook a program to transform Turkic-speaking Muslims into Chinese-speaking Confucians, seeking to bind this population and…