Kashgar Revisited: Uyghur Studies in Memory of Ambassador Gunnar Jarring

Contributions to the volume provide new insights into ongoing research into Uyghur history, linguistics and culture, while building on the scholarly legacy of Gunnar Jarring, the Swedish Turcologist and diplomat.

About the author

Ildikó Bellér-Hann (PhD 1989, habilitation 2005) is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen. Her numerous publications on the anthropology and history of the Uyghur of Xinjiang include Community Matters in Xinjiang 1880-1949 (Brill 2008).

Birgit N. Schlyter (PhD 1985) is Professor of Central Asian Studies at Stockholm University. She has published extensively in Turkic linguistics and is the editor of Gunnar Jarring's unpublished last manuscript, a comprehensive Uyghur-English dialect dictionary.

Jun Sugawara (MA 1992) is Research Fellow at the Institute for Global Area Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He has published a dictionary and numerous articles on the history and language of Uyghurs, including A Concise Modern Uyghur-Japanese Dictionary (ILCAA 2009)

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2016
• EAN: 9789004322974
• ISBN: 978-90-04-32297-4
• No. of pages: 356
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 635 g
• Series: Brill's Inner Asian Library
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories