Uyghurs Further Reading

Additional resources from our speakers

 The following materials are supplemental recommendations from our event speakers. Please note that the associated links lead to external sites.

From Timothy Grose:

 “Local” Uyghur History in English

Musa Sayrami (Author), Eric Schluessel (Translator): The Tarikh-i Hamidi

Muhammad Sadiq Kashgari (Author), David Brophy (Translator): In Remembrance of the Saints

General History

James Millward: Eurasian Crossroads

Contemporary Ethnography

Jay Dautcher: Down A Narrow Road

Darren Byler: Terror Capitalism

Current Crisis

Darren Byler: In the Camps

Sean Roberts: The War on the Uyghurs

Tahir Hamut Izgil (Author), Joshua Freeman (Translator): Waiting to Be Arrested at Night

Darren Byler, Ivan Franceschini, Nicholas Loubere (open access): Xinjiang Year Zero

Michael Clarke (editor): The Xinjiang Emergency

Primary Sources (many with Translations)

Xinjiang Documentation Project

Xinjiang Victims Database

From Eric Schluessel:

Art of Life in Chinese Central Asia

Lisa Ross (Photographer), Alexandre Papas, Beth Citron, Rahile Dawut (Essay contributors): Living Shrines of Uyghur China

Aysima Mirsultan, Eric Schluessel, Eset Sulayman (Editors): Community Still Matters: Uyghur Culture and Society in Central Asian Context

Rebecca Clothey, Dilmurat Mahmut (Editors): Uyghur Identity and Culture A Global Diaspora in a Time of Crisis