Laura Newby
Biographic Data
| ID | 706575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Newby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Newby |
| SIGNATURE | NEWBY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The sacred routes of Uyghur history
As the young Adrian Finn remarks in Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape, 2011), “History is that certainty produced where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of docum
Evolving representations of Xinjiang in Chinese travel writings
This article looks at writings on Xinjiang by three groups of Chinese writers: officials who were exiled to the region in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, government emissaries who went on fact-finding missions in the Republican era (1911–1949) and zhiqing (educated youth) who left the cities for Xinjiang in the 1950s and 1960s. By examining the writings of these three groups, the author endeavours to show how Chinese representations of X…
Bondage on Qing China's Northwestern Frontier
Despite the extensive literature on global slavery and servitude, human bondage in Xinjiang (Eastern Turkestan) during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has been largely neglected. Here bondage did not discriminate between ethnic, racial or religious groups and fulfilled a wide range of social, economic, and political functions, reflecting both the region's geographical position at the edge of Central Asia and its political position-first a…
Copper Plates for the Qianlong Emperor: From Paris to Peking via Canton
In the early 1760s, Jesuit missionaries serving as court artists in Peking were instructed by the Qianlong emperor (r. 1736-96) to produce a set of sixteen sketches in celebration of his recent victories over the Mongols and the Turkic Muslims in the region of present-day Xinjiang. The designs that were to be engraved on copper plates and printed in Europe were dispatched from Canton to Paris where the work was executed. Yet it was not until 1777…
Writing the Sino-Muslims into a local history of Xinjiang
The objective of this article is to look beneath the regional history of Xinjiang itself and examine the way in which, from the late Qing to the contemporary era, the state has recorded (and arguably failed to record) the local history of Sino-Muslim communities in Xinjiang. It will focus on the shifting relationship that the state has had with both the Sino-Muslims and the region itself, but also the political trends that have so constrained the…
The Blacks of Premodern China (review)
Reviewed by: The Blacks of Premodern China L.J. Newby D.J. Wyatt. The Blacks of Premodern China. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. Pp. 194. $65.00 (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-8122-4193-8. This slim, carefully crafted book sets out to provide answers to a circumscribed series of questions which some China historians will find intriguing, others may deem undeserving of such forensic study, but to which few will have given the sustai…
China, Xinjiang and Central Asia: History, Transition and Crossborder Interaction Into the 21 st century . Colin Mackerras , Michael Clarke
Islam in Traditional China: A Bibliographical Guide * by Donald Leslie, Yang Daye and Ahmed Youssef
As is evident from a glance at Part III of this book, we already have a number of bibliographies on Islam in China and, to be frank, it was not immediately obvious to me that we needed another. Yet this work might best be regarded not as an attempt at a more complete or exhaustive bibliography (indeed, it makes no claim to be such), but as a handbook for the study of Islam in China, a book to be dipped into by anyone wishing to gain an overview o…
The Empire and the Khanate: A Political History of Qing Relations with Khoqand c.1760-1860
Drawing primarily on Qing archival sources, this study charts the changes in Qing policy that characterized the empire’s relations with the Central Asian khanate of Khoqand, from the Qianlong era to the mid-19th century. It explores how the development of Khoqand as a regional power and its involvement with the khoja-cause impacted on Qing policy towards Xinjiang (Eastern Turkestan) and the consolidation of the north-western frontier. Focussing o…
Anthropology & History
East Asia - Michael Dillon: China's Muslim Hui community: migration, settlement and sects. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 1999. £40
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The Chinese Literary Conquest of Xinjiang
In recent years, a new genre of fiction has emerged in China known as Xibu wenxue (literature of the Western regions). While many of the authors contributing to this growing body of literature have lived and worked in the northwest all their lives, others were sent there to serve in the army or to xiafang (to go down to the countryside), most notably during the Cultural Revolution. Whether set in Xinjiang, Tibet, Mongolia, Gansu, or Qinghai, thes…
The begs of Xinjiang: Between Two Worlds
The Xinjiang People's Publishing House recently produced a series of booklets on the historical characters of Xinjiang. Included among the accounts of the region's heroes and heroines are the stories of some five hakim-begs, the local chief administrators during the Qing. They have all won inclusion in this series for demonstrations of loyalty to their Manchu conquerors and assistance rendered in the suppression of revolt against the Chinese empi…
Japan's International Affairs
China eyes Japan
Journal Article China eyes Japan Get access China eyes Japan. By Allen S. Whiting. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 1989. 228pp. Index. ISBN 0 520 06511 5. Laura Newby Laura Newby 1St Hilda's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 66, Issue 4, October 1990, Pages 849–850, https://doi.org/10.2307/2620439 Published: 01 October 1990
The pure and true religion’ in China
In the course of ten centuries the Muslims of China have witnessed a succession of civil wars, rebellions and invasions. They have endured natural disasters, enforced resettlement, and religious suppression. Their mosques have been sacked, their imams persecuted and for long periods they have been completely isolated from the powerhouses of Islam. Yet, the Muslim community of China has not only survived, it has grown from strength to strength. To…
The Chinese Literary Conquest of Xinjiang
In recent years, a new genre of fiction has emerged in China known as Xibu wenxue (literature of the Western regions). While many of the authors contributing to this growing body of literature have lived and worked in the northwest all their lives, others were sent there to serve in the army or to xiafang (to go down to the countryside), most notably during the Cultural Revolution. Whether set in Xinjiang, Tibet, Mongolia, Gansu, or Qinghai, thes…
The begs of Xinjiang: Between Two Worlds
The Xinjiang People's Publishing House recently produced a series of booklets on the historical characters of Xinjiang. Included among the accounts of the region's heroes and heroines are the stories of some five hakim-begs, the local chief administrators during the Qing. They have all won inclusion in this series for demonstrations of loyalty to their Manchu conquerors and assistance rendered in the suppression of revolt against the Chinese empi…
Bondage on Qing China's Northwestern Frontier
Despite the extensive literature on global slavery and servitude, human bondage in Xinjiang (Eastern Turkestan) during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has been largely neglected. Here bondage did not discriminate between ethnic, racial or religious groups and fulfilled a wide range of social, economic, and political functions, reflecting both the region's geographical position at the edge of Central Asia and its political position-first a…
East Asia - Michael Dillon: China's Muslim Hui community: migration, settlement and sects. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 1999. £40
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The sacred routes of Uyghur history
As the young Adrian Finn remarks in Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape, 2011), “History is that certainty produced where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of docum
The pure and true religion’ in China
In the course of ten centuries the Muslims of China have witnessed a succession of civil wars, rebellions and invasions. They have endured natural disasters, enforced resettlement, and religious suppression. Their mosques have been sacked, their imams persecuted and for long periods they have been completely isolated from the powerhouses of Islam. Yet, the Muslim community of China has not only survived, it has grown from strength to strength. To…
The pure and true religion’ in China
In the course of ten centuries the Muslims of China have witnessed a succession of civil wars, rebellions and invasions. They have endured natural disasters, enforced resettlement, and religious suppression. Their mosques have been sacked, their imams persecuted and for long periods they have been completely isolated from the powerhouses of Islam. Yet, the Muslim community of China has not only survived, it has grown from strength to strength. To…
China eyes Japan
Journal Article China eyes Japan Get access China eyes Japan. By Allen S. Whiting. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 1989. 228pp. Index. ISBN 0 520 06511 5. Laura Newby Laura Newby 1St Hilda's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 66, Issue 4, October 1990, Pages 849–850, https://doi.org/10.2307/2620439 Published: 01 October 1990
Japan's International Affairs
The begs of Xinjiang: Between Two Worlds
The Xinjiang People's Publishing House recently produced a series of booklets on the historical characters of Xinjiang. Included among the accounts of the region's heroes and heroines are the stories of some five hakim-begs, the local chief administrators during the Qing. They have all won inclusion in this series for demonstrations of loyalty to their Manchu conquerors and assistance rendered in the suppression of revolt against the Chinese empi…
The Chinese Literary Conquest of Xinjiang
In recent years, a new genre of fiction has emerged in China known as Xibu wenxue (literature of the Western regions). While many of the authors contributing to this growing body of literature have lived and worked in the northwest all their lives, others were sent there to serve in the army or to xiafang (to go down to the countryside), most notably during the Cultural Revolution. Whether set in Xinjiang, Tibet, Mongolia, Gansu, or Qinghai, thes…
East Asia - Michael Dillon: China's Muslim Hui community: migration, settlement and sects. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 1999. £40
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Anthropology & History
The Empire and the Khanate: A Political History of Qing Relations with Khoqand c.1760-1860
Drawing primarily on Qing archival sources, this study charts the changes in Qing policy that characterized the empire’s relations with the Central Asian khanate of Khoqand, from the Qianlong era to the mid-19th century. It explores how the development of Khoqand as a regional power and its involvement with the khoja-cause impacted on Qing policy towards Xinjiang (Eastern Turkestan) and the consolidation of the north-western frontier. Focussing o…
Islam in Traditional China: A Bibliographical Guide * by Donald Leslie, Yang Daye and Ahmed Youssef
As is evident from a glance at Part III of this book, we already have a number of bibliographies on Islam in China and, to be frank, it was not immediately obvious to me that we needed another. Yet this work might best be regarded not as an attempt at a more complete or exhaustive bibliography (indeed, it makes no claim to be such), but as a handbook for the study of Islam in China, a book to be dipped into by anyone wishing to gain an overview o…
China, Xinjiang and Central Asia: History, Transition and Crossborder Interaction Into the 21 st century . Colin Mackerras , Michael Clarke
The Blacks of Premodern China (review)
Reviewed by: The Blacks of Premodern China L.J. Newby D.J. Wyatt. The Blacks of Premodern China. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. Pp. 194. $65.00 (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-8122-4193-8. This slim, carefully crafted book sets out to provide answers to a circumscribed series of questions which some China historians will find intriguing, others may deem undeserving of such forensic study, but to which few will have given the sustai…
Copper Plates for the Qianlong Emperor: From Paris to Peking via Canton
In the early 1760s, Jesuit missionaries serving as court artists in Peking were instructed by the Qianlong emperor (r. 1736-96) to produce a set of sixteen sketches in celebration of his recent victories over the Mongols and the Turkic Muslims in the region of present-day Xinjiang. The designs that were to be engraved on copper plates and printed in Europe were dispatched from Canton to Paris where the work was executed. Yet it was not until 1777…
Writing the Sino-Muslims into a local history of Xinjiang
The objective of this article is to look beneath the regional history of Xinjiang itself and examine the way in which, from the late Qing to the contemporary era, the state has recorded (and arguably failed to record) the local history of Sino-Muslim communities in Xinjiang. It will focus on the shifting relationship that the state has had with both the Sino-Muslims and the region itself, but also the political trends that have so constrained the…
Bondage on Qing China's Northwestern Frontier
Despite the extensive literature on global slavery and servitude, human bondage in Xinjiang (Eastern Turkestan) during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has been largely neglected. Here bondage did not discriminate between ethnic, racial or religious groups and fulfilled a wide range of social, economic, and political functions, reflecting both the region's geographical position at the edge of Central Asia and its political position-first a…
Evolving representations of Xinjiang in Chinese travel writings
This article looks at writings on Xinjiang by three groups of Chinese writers: officials who were exiled to the region in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, government emissaries who went on fact-finding missions in the Republican era (1911–1949) and zhiqing (educated youth) who left the cities for Xinjiang in the 1950s and 1960s. By examining the writings of these three groups, the author endeavours to show how Chinese representations of X…
The sacred routes of Uyghur history
As the young Adrian Finn remarks in Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape, 2011), “History is that certainty produced where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of docum
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