Holy War in China: The Muslim Rebellion and State in Chinese Central Asia, 1864-1877

Author: Kim Hodong ISBN: 0804748845 Format: Hardcover, 295pp Pub. Date: February 2004 Publisher: Stanford University Press Barnes & Noble Sales Rank: 661,291 B&N Price: $55.00

ABOUT THE BOOK

Holy War in China: The Muslim Rebellion and State in Chinese Central Asia, 1864-1877

FROM THE PUBLISHER
"This is the first comprehensive and balanced history of a major Muslim rebellion in northwest China in the late nineteenth century, which led to the establishment of an independent Islamic state under Ya'quh Beg. That independence was lost in 1877, when the Qing army recaptured the region and incorporated it into the Chinese state, where it remains, somewhat uneasily, as the large Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region." This is the first English-language history of the rebellion since 1878, and the only one to be based on primary sources in Islamic languages as well as Chinese, complemented by British and Ottoman archival documents and secondary sources in Russian, English, Japanese, Chinese, French, German, and Turkish.

SYNOPSIS
Beginning in 1864, a Muslim rebellion in northwest China against Qing rule quickly spread, leading to the establishment of an independent Islamic state that was to last until 1877. Utilizing primary sources in both Chinese and Islamic languages, Kim (history, Seoul National U., South Korea) has produced the first English language history of the rebellion and the rule of Ya'qub Beg since 1877.