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Islamist Mobilization
in Turkey
A Study in Vernacular Politics
Jenny B. White
Governing China’s
Multiethnic Frontiers
Edited by Morris Rossabi
The emergence of an Islamist movement and the
buoyancy of Islamic political parties in Turkey has
puzzled Western observers. White shows how
everyday concerns and interpersonal relations,
rather than Islamic dogma, helped the Islamist
Welfare Party gain access to community networks;
argues that Islamic political networks are based
on cultural understandings of relationships, duties,
and trust; and shows how Islamic activists have
sustained cohesion despite contradictory agendas
and beliefs.
2002, 304 pages, 6 x 9”
0-295-98291-8 / 978-0-295-98291-5
paper $27.95 CRO
In Governing China’s Multiethnic Frontiers, leading
scholars examine the Chinese government’s
administration of its ethnic minority regions,
particularly border areas where ethnicity is at times
a volatile issue and where separatist movements
are feared. Seven essays focus on the Muslim
Hui, multiethnic southwest China, Inner Mongolia,
Xinjiang, and Tibet.
Contributors
Gardner Bovingdon; David Bachman; Uradyn E. Bulag;
Melvyn C. Goldstein; Mette Halskov Hansen; Matthew T.
Kapstein; and Jonathan Lipman.
2004, 304 pages, 6 x 9”
10 halftones, 4 maps
0-295-98412-0 / 978-0-295-98412-4
paper $32.95 CRO
Modern Clan Politics
The Power of “Blood” in Kazakhstan
and Beyond
Edward Schatz
Edward Schatz explores the politics of kin-based
clan divisions in the post-Soviet state of Kazakhstan.
Drawing from extensive ethnographic and archival
research, interviews, and wide-ranging secondary
sources, he highlights a politics that poses a twotiered
challenge to current thinking about modernity
and Central Asia. Asking why kinship divisions do not
fade from political life with modernization, he shows
that the state actually constructs clan relationships
by infusing them with practical political and social
meaning. By activating the most important quality
of clans – their “concealability” – the state is itself
responsible for the vibrant politics of these subethnic
divisions which has emerged and flourished in post-
Soviet Kazakhstan.
2004, 256 pages, 6 x 9”
0-295-98447-3 / 978-0-295-98447-6
paper $29.95 CRO
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Manchus and Han
Ethnic Relations and Political Power
in Late Qing and Early Republican
China, 1861-1928
Edward J. M. Rhoads
[A] volume worthy of worldwide celebration. It is the
first monograph written in either English or Chinese
dedicated to the study of the relationship between
the Manchus and the Han Chinese from the middle
of the nineteenth century through most of the
twentieth.
– China Review Int’l
Contents
Introduction; Separate and Unequal; Cixi and the “Peculiar
Institution”; Zaifeng and the “Manchu Ascendency”;
The 1911 Revolution; Court and Manchus after 1911;
Conclusion; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
2000, 404 pages, 6 x 9”
14 illustrations
0-295-98040-0 / 978-0-295-98040-9
paper $37.95 CRO
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