THE CULTURE OF THE CENTRAL ASIAN UYGHURS AND THEIR SUCCESSES

Number: 2 December 1, 2013
  • Nebijan Tursun
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THE CULTURE OF THE CENTRAL ASIAN UYGHURS AND THEIR SUCCESSES

Abstract

This paper is mainly focused on the formation and development of the Uyghur culture in the USSR and independent Central Asian republics. Central Asia is a region of importance to the Uyghur Diaspora due to its shared border and strong historical relations with the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China. In the first half of the 20th century, in the 1960s-1980s, the Soviet Union viewed East Turkestan/ Xinjiang as an important strategic goal. With the aim of defending its own national interests, the Soviet Union directly involved itself in the political life of the region and attempted to exert political, cultural and economic influences there. As a result of the ethnic policies and political goals of Soviet Russia, a large number of Uyghur youths attended universities in Soviet cities, including Moscow, Leningrad, and Tashkent, and during the 1920s and 1930s, this led to the creation of a sizable Uyghur intellectual class in Soviet Central Asia in the early 20th century. The Soviet Union carefully monitored the cultural and educational development of the Uyghur Diaspora as a whole, using the information to determine the Uyghur situation in East Turkestan/Xinjiang during the 1930s-1940s and 1950s-1980s. We can divide history of the formation and the development of the Soviet and independent Central Asian Uyghur culture into three different stages: the 1918-1940s, 1950s- 1980s and the since 1991- until now . In these three stages, among the Uyghurs appeared many scholars, writers, artists, scientists, athletes, high rank military commanders, government officials, and others who influenced the Soviet Union and the independent Central Asian republics. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Uyghur Diaspora separately belonged to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and the Russian Federation. The Uyghur Diaspora in these CIS countries continues to bring significant contributions to and play an important role in them, including in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan as well as Russia.

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Nebijan Tursun This is me

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December 1, 2013

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December 1, 2013

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Year 2013 Number: 2

APA
Tursun, N. (2013). ORTA ASYA’DAKİ UYGURLARIN KÜLTÜRÜ VE BAŞARILARI ÜZERİNE. Uluslararası Uygur Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2, 65-93. https://izlik.org/JA37NT62KK
AMA
1.Tursun N. ORTA ASYA’DAKİ UYGURLARIN KÜLTÜRÜ VE BAŞARILARI ÜZERİNE. Uluslararası Uygur Araştırmaları Dergisi. 2013;(2):65-93. https://izlik.org/JA37NT62KK
Chicago
Tursun, Nebijan. 2013. “ORTA ASYA’DAKİ UYGURLARIN KÜLTÜRÜ VE BAŞARILARI ÜZERİNE”. Uluslararası Uygur Araştırmaları Dergisi, nos. 2: 65-93. https://izlik.org/JA37NT62KK.
EndNote
Tursun N (December 1, 2013) ORTA ASYA’DAKİ UYGURLARIN KÜLTÜRÜ VE BAŞARILARI ÜZERİNE. Uluslararası Uygur Araştırmaları Dergisi 2 65–93.
IEEE
[1]N. Tursun, “ORTA ASYA’DAKİ UYGURLARIN KÜLTÜRÜ VE BAŞARILARI ÜZERİNE”, Uluslararası Uygur Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. 2, pp. 65–93, Dec. 2013, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA37NT62KK
ISNAD
Tursun, Nebijan. “ORTA ASYA’DAKİ UYGURLARIN KÜLTÜRÜ VE BAŞARILARI ÜZERİNE”. Uluslararası Uygur Araştırmaları Dergisi. 2 (December 1, 2013): 65-93. https://izlik.org/JA37NT62KK.
JAMA
1.Tursun N. ORTA ASYA’DAKİ UYGURLARIN KÜLTÜRÜ VE BAŞARILARI ÜZERİNE. Uluslararası Uygur Araştırmaları Dergisi. 2013;:65–93.
MLA
Tursun, Nebijan. “ORTA ASYA’DAKİ UYGURLARIN KÜLTÜRÜ VE BAŞARILARI ÜZERİNE”. Uluslararası Uygur Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. 2, Dec. 2013, pp. 65-93, https://izlik.org/JA37NT62KK.
Vancouver
1.Nebijan Tursun. ORTA ASYA’DAKİ UYGURLARIN KÜLTÜRÜ VE BAŞARILARI ÜZERİNE. Uluslararası Uygur Araştırmaları Dergisi [Internet]. 2013 Dec. 1;(2):65-93. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA37NT62KK