[Discussion] WORKSHOP- International Workshop on Xinjiang Historical Sources, Dec. 12-14, Japan

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WORKSHOP- Int'l Workshop on Xinjiang Historical Sources, Dec. 12-14, Japan

International Workshop on Xinjiang Historical Sources
Hakone (Japan), Dec.12-14, 2004

DATE: Dec. 12-14, 2004
VENUE: Matsuzakaya Honten, Hakone, JAPAN
URL: http://www.uighur.jp/ws2004/index.htm

Organizers:

Tatsuo Nakami(Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Yasushi Shinmen(Chuo University)
James A. Millward(Georgetown University)
Jun Sugawara (Aoyama Gakuin University)

An International Workshop on Xinjiang Historical Sources will be held in
Hakone, Japan from 12-14 December 2004.

In recent years, the historical study of Inner Asia has enjoyed rapid
progress, particularly in regard to historical sources and materials.
Underlying these advances is greatly improved access to pertinent
materials in this region.

Likewise, there have also been remarkable developments in the
historiography of Xinjiang (Chinese Central Asia), thanks to the
utilization of manuscript materials in Arabic script and improved access
to government archives.  Individual researchers have assessed and
consulted documents in Europe, Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and China,
and are beginning to produce path breaking new research on the basis of
these materials. However, many sources stored in private collections and
government archives remain only partially accessible, and information
about, and systemization of these sources remains inadequate.

The proposed International Workshop, the first such effort of its kind,
will assemble Xinjiang specialists from around the world.  The goals of
the Workshop are, first of all, to create an environment from for
advancing Xinjiang historical research by sharing information on
existing historical sources; and second, to promote discussion of the
new directions in which the field of Xinjiang history is developing.

Workshop proceedings will be eventually be published in Japanese and
English.

Please note: The workshop will be open to discussion of above-mentioned
subjects.  The workshop is open to all interested; however, as capacity
at the Hakone meeting space is limited, organizers may not be able to
accept all requests to participate.

SPEAKERS AND TENTATIVE TITLES OF PRESENTATIONS (in alphabetical order)

BEISEMBIEV, Timur (National Academy of Sciences, Kazakhstan)
"Previously unknown information on 19th century Chinese Turkestan from
one Kokandian chronicle (Ta'rikh-i jahan-namay -- a Tashkent copy of
Tuhfat at-tawarikh-i khani by Mulla 'Avaz Muhammad' Attar)

BELLER-HANN, Ildiko (Martin-Luther-Universitat, Germany)
"Toward a historical anthropology of Xinjiang "

DI COSMO, Nicola (Princeton University, USA)
"Uses of Manchu in the Qing Administration of Xinjiang "

HORI, Sunao (Konan University, Japan)
HUA, Li (Osaka Keizai Houka University, Japan)
"Materials on Chinese Muslim in Xinjiang from Manwen Lufu"

JALILOV, Amanbek (National Academy of Science, Uzbekistan)
KAMALOV, Ablet (National Academy of Science, Kazakhstan)
"The Uighur memoir literature and Oral stories as a source for the
History of Eastern Turkestan Republic (1944-1949)"

KIM, Ho-dong (Seoul National University, Korea)
"Specimens of the 17th-Century Eastern Turki Edicts in Gunnar Jarring
Collection "

MILLWARD, James A. (Georgetown University, USA)
"Man and the Environment in Chinese Central Asia: Sources from Space,
the Ground, and in Between"

NAKAMI, Tatsuo (ILCAA, Japan),
NEWBY, Laura (Oxford University,UK)
"19th century Manchu documents relating to Xinjiang "

ONUMA, Takahiro (Tsukuba University, Japan),
"About one Chagatai-Manchu document of the Yarkand Begs in 1801"

SAWADA, Minoru (Toyama University, Japan),
"Three Groups of Tadhkira-i Khwajagan: Viewed from the Chapter of Khwaja
Afaq"

SHINMEN, Yasushi (Chuo University, Japan),
SUGAWARA, Jun (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)
"19-20c Qadi Documents from Kashghar and Khotan"

ZARCONE, Thierry (France)
"Sufi Families' Private Archives: Regarding Some Unknown Sources for the
History of Sufi Lineages in 20th Century Xinjiang"

For more information, please contact

James Millward
E-mail: millwarj@georgetown.edu

Jun Sugawara
E-mail: ws2004@uighur.jp


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