Investigative Study regarding Transformations in Uighur Communities and Ethnic Identities in Central Asia

该项目的目的是研究包括中国新疆维吾尔自治区和前苏联中亚共和国在内的一个地区的维吾尔族社会、文化和民族认同问题。维吾尔族是在新疆绿洲过着农业或城市生活的定居民族。他们是中国新疆的主要民族，占新疆人口的大多数。维吾尔族也占前苏联各共和国人口的相当大一部分，包括哈萨克斯坦的20多万人。这主要是由于世纪以来存在的各种政治条件造成的从中国向俄罗斯和苏联领土的大规模移民的结果。虽然维吾尔族在数量上与其他主要中亚民族相当，但他们仍然是中国和中亚国家的社会和政治少数民族。没有自己的政治实体是维吾尔族生存的独特条件。虽然拥有学位， ...更多信息 由于语言、文化、宗教等方面的统一性，他们居住的地区分布在广阔的地理空间中，划分为具有不同历史背景的地区。另一方面，虽然维吾尔族的民族意识和族称是在20世纪世纪才形成的，但维吾尔族具有共同的民族意识，这似乎是其民族向心倾向的基础，但这种民族意识的背后可能是一系列变量的表现，这些变量既有地域性的，也有社会性的，还有民族性的。特别是，我们调查民族主义运动中的领导人和知识分子表达和政治化的民族意识与当地社会基层维吾尔族的民族感情和意识之间的关系。特别值得注意的是，维吾尔族的民族意识与每个国家的国家政策和社会文化环境以及每个地区的特定历史背景密切相关。少

The purpose of this project is to examine issues concerning Uyghur society, culture and ethnic identity over a region including the PRC Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Former Soviet Union (FSU) Central Asian republics.The Uyghurs are a settled people leading agricultural or urban lives in the oases of Xinjiang. They are the primary ethnic group in PRC Xinjiang and form the majority of its population. The Uyghurs also make up a considerable portion of the populations of the FSU republics, including over 200,000 in Kazakhstan. This is a result of large-scale migrations from China to Russian and Soviet Union territories, mainly due to various political conditions existing since the 19th century.While the Uyghurs are equivalent in number to the other main Central Asian ethnic groups, they still constitute social and political minorities in China and the Central Asian countries. Having no political entity of their own is a condition unique to Uyghur existence. While possessing a degre … More e of unity in such aspects as language, culture, and religion, the areas they populate are scattered over a vast geographical space, divided into regions with different historical backgrounds. On the other hand, while their consciousness as one people and their ethnonym developed only during the 20th century, the Uyghurs possess a common ethnic awareness, which seems to be the basis of their ethnic centripetal tendencies.However, underlying this awareness can be the manifestation of a set of variables, which are regional, social, as well as ethnic in nature. In particular, we investigate the relationship between the ethnic awareness expressed and politicized by leaders and intellectuals in nationalist movements and the ethnic feelings and awareness of Uyghurs at the grassroots level of local society. Of particular note is that Uyghur ethnic awareness interlocks closely with national policies and social and cultural circumstances in each country, as well as with each region's particular historical background. Less