Comparative Study on the Cultural Bases of Central Eurasia

该项目的重点是：在中国、东北地区、内蒙古和新疆维吾尔地区、在西突厥斯坦、吉尔吉斯斯坦、塔吉克斯坦、土库曼斯坦，特别是乌兹别克斯坦和哈萨克斯坦。从历史上看，这些地区保留了共同的文化元素，如伊斯兰教或田园生活和城市农业生活之间的密切联系。然而，当你观察每个居民的国家归属感和种族、传统文化和宗教意识时，就会清楚地发现，这些地区的文化基础并不是同质的，如下所示：1.国家和种族意识：例如，乌兹别克斯坦人民在1991年独立后提高了他们的民族意识，但其他国家不敢效仿。同样生活在新疆的土耳其人和中国的其他少数民族一样，也生活在汉中国人人人口增加的浪潮中。西方和东方的意识几乎没有什么相同之处。宗教：伊斯兰教的历史传统在西方特别是在西方复兴，相反，伊斯兰教在东方的新复兴似乎局限于特定的地区或个人规模，根据历史条件。但应该注意的是，回族正在发展伊斯兰教育制度。在藏传佛教中，佛教、儒教、道教，特别是后三者似乎是在人们对世俗利益的渴望中侥幸生存下来的。文物资料：各地文物资料发现、保存、研究工作持续推进。然而，不幸的是，维持这一活动的资金绝对短缺。此外，城市化的快速发展和活跃的国际私人贸易应该会使中欧大陆具有更多实际和共同的特征。但是，上述居民各种意识的多样性可能是分开存在的。

This project focused on the regions : In China, North-east area, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang Uyghur Region, in West Turkistan, Qirgizstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, particularly Uzbekistan and kazakstan. From the historical point of view, these areas keep common cultural elements for example Islam or the intimate connection between pastoral life and urban-agricultural life. However, when one observe each inhabitants' sense of belonging to the country and the consciousness of race, traditional culture and religion, it became clear that the cultural bases in these area is not homogeneity as following :1. Sense of country and race : Uzbek people, for example, has increased their national awareness after the independence of 1991, but other countries dare not to follow them. The same Turkish people in Xinjiang live in the wave of the population increase of Han-Chinese people as well as the other minorities in China. There is little identical consciousness between the west and the east.2. Religions : Historical tradition of Islam has revived particularly in the west, on the contrary the new revival of Islam in the east seems to be limited to specified areas or to personal scale according to the historical conditions. But it should be noted that the Hui people is developing the system of Islamic education. Among Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism, especially the latter three seem to have taken chance to survive in the people's desire for the secular interests.3. Historical relics and materials : The effort of discovery, preservation and study of cultural relics and materials has been continued everywhere. Unfortunately however, the fund to sustain the activity is absolutely short.In addition, the rapid development of urbanization and the active international private trade should prepare the more actual and common characters of Central Eurasia. But, the diversity of inhabitants' various consciousness mentioned above may be alive separately.