This article presents a hitherto little-known Manchu work on the Western Regions, i.e., Islamic C... more This article presents a hitherto little-known Manchu work on the Western Regions, i.e., Islamic Central Asia. Dating to 1761, I believe it represents the earliest effort to compile a political and geographic description of this region for Qing officials in Xin- jiang. It consists of two sections: (1) an account of the sedentary Muslims of Xinjiang and neighboring Islamic polities; and (2) a description of the Kirghiz. This stand-alone Manchu work was subsequently incorporated into certain rescensions of a more ex- tensive Chinese-language composition, known variously as the Xiyu zhi, Huijiang zhi, or Xiyu dili tushuo. After a brief introduction, the article provides a transcription and translation of the text as it survives in a Moscow manuscript of the Xiyu zhi. This text can be read in conjunction with the section included in the Xiyu dili tushuo to produce a near-complete work.
with David Brophy, in Jeff Eden, The Life of Muhammad Sharif: A Central Asian Sufi Hagiography in Chaghatai. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 55-75.
This volume consists of a study of two manuscripts from Xinjiang in the collection of the Ethnogr... more This volume consists of a study of two manuscripts from Xinjiang in the collection of the Ethnography Museum (Etnografya Müzesi) in Ankara, numbered EM13135 and EM13138. Part 1, by David Brophy, gives a sketch of the history of the Turfan junwang dynasty, whose activities are described in the two manscripts. Chapter 2 is an essay by Onuma Takahiro on the community of Turfani Muslims who resided in the Guazhou oasis of western Gansu from 1732 to 1756. Along with a transcription and translation of EM13135, it also investigates social conditions within this migrant community. In Part 3, David Brophy gives a transcription and translation of EM13138, the Turkic version of the Qing official Qing biography of Emin Khoja. comparing it with Mongolian and Manchu texts from which it was translated.
This article presents a hitherto little-known Manchu work on the Western Regions, i.e., Islamic C... more This article presents a hitherto little-known Manchu work on the Western Regions, i.e., Islamic Central Asia. Dating to 1761, I believe it represents the earliest effort to compile a political and geographic description of this region for Qing officials in Xin- jiang. It consists of two sections: (1) an account of the sedentary Muslims of Xinjiang and neighboring Islamic polities; and (2) a description of the Kirghiz. This stand-alone Manchu work was subsequently incorporated into certain rescensions of a more ex- tensive Chinese-language composition, known variously as the Xiyu zhi, Huijiang zhi, or Xiyu dili tushuo. After a brief introduction, the article provides a transcription and translation of the text as it survives in a Moscow manuscript of the Xiyu zhi. This text can be read in conjunction with the section included in the Xiyu dili tushuo to produce a near-complete work.
with David Brophy, in Jeff Eden, The Life of Muhammad Sharif: A Central Asian Sufi Hagiography in Chaghatai. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 55-75.
This volume consists of a study of two manuscripts from Xinjiang in the collection of the Ethnogr... more This volume consists of a study of two manuscripts from Xinjiang in the collection of the Ethnography Museum (Etnografya Müzesi) in Ankara, numbered EM13135 and EM13138. Part 1, by David Brophy, gives a sketch of the history of the Turfan junwang dynasty, whose activities are described in the two manscripts. Chapter 2 is an essay by Onuma Takahiro on the community of Turfani Muslims who resided in the Guazhou oasis of western Gansu from 1732 to 1756. Along with a transcription and translation of EM13135, it also investigates social conditions within this migrant community. In Part 3, David Brophy gives a transcription and translation of EM13138, the Turkic version of the Qing official Qing biography of Emin Khoja. comparing it with Mongolian and Manchu texts from which it was translated.
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