David Brophy
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1069235 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Brophy |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Brophy |
| ASSINATURA | BROPHY D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3595-056X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Birth of the Geopolitical Age: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China
Exiles or Intermediaries? East Turkistani Muslims in the Interwar Middle East
Recent political repression in Xinjiang (commonly referred to in sources cited here as Eastern Turkistan) has raised the question of the degree and nature of support for the Uyghur cause in the wider “Islamic world”. Most discussion of Uyghur exile political activity in the Middle East begins with the 1949 Chinese Communist revolution and the flight of leading Uyghur members of the Nationalist Party (Guomindang) to India, and from there to refuge…
Unruly Speech: Displacement and the Politics of Transgression
China as Clime: A Response to Evrim Binbaş
Lessons from History: Leading Historians Tackle Australia’s Greatest Challenges
Lessons from History: Leading Historians Tackle Australia’s Greatest Challenges." Australian Historical Studies, 54(1), pp. 167–168
The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery
The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery reveals the way recent scholarship in the field of slavery studies has taken a more expansive turn, in terms of both the geographical and the temporal. These new studies perform area studies-driven analyses of the representation of slavery from national or regional literary traditions that are not always considered by scholars of slavery and explore the diverse range of unfreedoms depicted …
He Causes a Ruckus Wherever He Goes: Saʿid Muḥammad al-ʿAsali as a missionary of modernism in north-west China
This article examines the activities of the Syrian hadith scholar Saʿid Muḥammad al-ʿAsali al-Ṭarabulsi al-Shami (1870-1932?), better known as Shami Damulla, as a window onto the relationship between the Ottoman empire and the Muslims of Xinjiang, or Eastern Turkistan. Scholars of Islam in the Soviet Union have identified al-ʿAsali as an influential figure in Soviet Turkistan in the 1920s, but much remains to be clarified about his formative year…
A Lingua Franca in Decline? The Place of Persian in Qing China
The Qing dynasty (1636-1912) inherited a large community of Chinese-speaking Muslims from the Ming, and in the eighteenth century incorporated a new population of Turkic-speaking Muslims, the inhabitants of Xinjiang (or Eastern Turkistan), into its territory.The conquering Manchus also took possession of an existing Chinese infrastructure of translation, which had served the Ming court in its dealings with Persophone neighbors.Across this imperia…
Australia’s China Debate in 2018
A Lingua Franca in Decline? The Place of Persian in Qing China
This chapter considers the position of Persian in late imperial China. Far from a straightforward picture of decline, these centuries saw a limited but ongoing role for Persian in various spheres, and even brief windows of increased significance. The first perspective considered is that of the Qing state and its translation infrastructure, which consisted of an inheritance from the Ming, the dynasty’s own institutional innovations, as well as evo…
Good and Bad Muslims in Xinjiang
To justify its repressive polices towards the Turkic-speaking Muslims of Xinjiang, Beijing taps into a global discourse of counterradicalisation that has developed in the context of the US-led War on Terror, a discourse that rests on the dichotomy of extremist vs. moderate Islam.Western commentary, while critical of China's policies in Xinjiang, often reflects this same way of thinking.A more effective critique will challenge the terms of this Is…
Confusing Black and White: Naqshbandi Sufi Affiliations and the Transition to Qing Rule in the Tarim Basin
This article offers a critique of the prevailing framework for the analysis of Naqshbandi Sufism in Xinjiang, or Eastern Turkistan, from the late seventeenth century onwards: one that describes a division into dynastic Sufi lineages of Isḥaqiyya and Afaqiyya, and treats these terms as equivalent to the factional designations “Black Mountain” and “White Mountain.” I argue that the scholarly tradition has misconstrued key terms in this lexicon, lea…
The Rise of Xinjiang Studies: Ajasnew Author Forum
Perhaps no area of China-related scholarship has taken longer to recover from the access limitations of the mid-twentieth century than the study of Xinjiang. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the study of Xinjiang was so fashionable that it had a wide following in the Western popular press, where the region was better known as Chinese Central Asia, Chinese Turkistan, or Eastern Turkistan. When the turmoil of the Republican and…
New Methods on the New Frontier: Islamic Reformism in Xinjiang, 1898-1917
This article recounts the history of Islamic school reform in Xinjiang, from its beginnings in the late 1890s to the crackdown on foreign teachers in Xinjiang schools at the end of World War i. Drawing on a wide range of Turkic-language sources and consular reports, it explores the nature of social and political contacts between the Muslims of Xinjiang and co-believers in the Russian and Ottoman Empires in the early twentieth century. It also see…
Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier
Along the Russian-Qing frontier in the nineteenth century, a new political space emerged, shaped by competing imperial and spiritual loyalties, cross-border economic and social ties, and revolution. David Brophy explores how a community of Central Asian Muslims responded to these historic changes by reinventing themselves as the Uyghur nation
A Tatar Turkist in Chinese Turkistan: Nushirvan Yavshef's travels in Xinjiang, 1914–1917
Among visitors to Xinjiang in the first half of the twentieth century, the name of Nushirvan Yavshef is not the best known, but his writings deserve attention for the unique perspective they offer on local society. Yavshef, a Tatar Muslim from Russia, wrote a series of dispatches from Xinjiang for the Russian Muslim press between 1915 and 1917, totalling over 150 articles. This body of work allows us to ask important questions about the relations…
The Junghar Mongol Legacy and the Language of Loyalty in Qing Xinjiang
In light of recent scholarly interest in the Qing empire’s handling of ethnic and religious differences, David Brophy explores the place of Islam, and the Muslims of Xinjiang, within the Qing imperium. Qing multilingualism and ideological pluralism rarely extended to the language and faith of Xinjiang’s Muslims. Some scholars have seen this as evidence that the Qing sought, but ultimately failed, to treat the Muslims of Xinjiang as one of its con…
Five Races, One Parliament? Xinhai in Xinjiang and the Problem of Minority Representation in the Chinese Republic
While the early Chinese parliament has been criticised as an ineffective shield against warlord machinations, this article brackets the question of its institutional efficiency and instead treats the National Assembly in terms of the visions of China that were expressed in the process of its construction. Debates on electoral divisions and rules for non- Han regions allow insight into the competing principles by which such territories might be in…
Introduction: The Xinhai Revolution and Inner Asia
Taranchis, Kashgaris, and the 'Uyghur Question' in Soviet Central Asia
Up till now, the problem of Uyghur identity construction has been studied from an almost exclusively anthropological perspective. Little Western research has been done on the history of the Uyghur community in the Soviet Union during the period of national delimitation, and the process by which a re-invented 'Uyghur' identity was fostered among settled Turkicspeakers of East Turkestani origin. In this paper I have set out to trace some of the key…
Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier
Along the Russian-Qing frontier in the nineteenth century, a new political space emerged, shaped by competing imperial and spiritual loyalties, cross-border economic and social ties, and revolution. David Brophy explores how a community of Central Asian Muslims responded to these historic changes by reinventing themselves as the Uyghur nation
Good and Bad Muslims in Xinjiang
To justify its repressive polices towards the Turkic-speaking Muslims of Xinjiang, Beijing taps into a global discourse of counterradicalisation that has developed in the context of the US-led War on Terror, a discourse that rests on the dichotomy of extremist vs. moderate Islam.Western commentary, while critical of China's policies in Xinjiang, often reflects this same way of thinking.A more effective critique will challenge the terms of this Is…
Five Races, One Parliament? Xinhai in Xinjiang and the Problem of Minority Representation in the Chinese Republic
While the early Chinese parliament has been criticised as an ineffective shield against warlord machinations, this article brackets the question of its institutional efficiency and instead treats the National Assembly in terms of the visions of China that were expressed in the process of its construction. Debates on electoral divisions and rules for non- Han regions allow insight into the competing principles by which such territories might be in…
Taranchis, Kashgaris, and the 'Uyghur Question' in Soviet Central Asia
Up till now, the problem of Uyghur identity construction has been studied from an almost exclusively anthropological perspective. Little Western research has been done on the history of the Uyghur community in the Soviet Union during the period of national delimitation, and the process by which a re-invented 'Uyghur' identity was fostered among settled Turkicspeakers of East Turkestani origin. In this paper I have set out to trace some of the key…
The Rise of Xinjiang Studies: Ajasnew Author Forum
Perhaps no area of China-related scholarship has taken longer to recover from the access limitations of the mid-twentieth century than the study of Xinjiang. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the study of Xinjiang was so fashionable that it had a wide following in the Western popular press, where the region was better known as Chinese Central Asia, Chinese Turkistan, or Eastern Turkistan. When the turmoil of the Republican and…
Taranchis, Kashgaris, and the 'Uyghur Question' in Soviet Central Asia
Up till now, the problem of Uyghur identity construction has been studied from an almost exclusively anthropological perspective. Little Western research has been done on the history of the Uyghur community in the Soviet Union during the period of national delimitation, and the process by which a re-invented 'Uyghur' identity was fostered among settled Turkicspeakers of East Turkestani origin. In this paper I have set out to trace some of the key…
Five Races, One Parliament? Xinhai in Xinjiang and the Problem of Minority Representation in the Chinese Republic
While the early Chinese parliament has been criticised as an ineffective shield against warlord machinations, this article brackets the question of its institutional efficiency and instead treats the National Assembly in terms of the visions of China that were expressed in the process of its construction. Debates on electoral divisions and rules for non- Han regions allow insight into the competing principles by which such territories might be in…
Introduction: The Xinhai Revolution and Inner Asia
The Junghar Mongol Legacy and the Language of Loyalty in Qing Xinjiang
In light of recent scholarly interest in the Qing empire’s handling of ethnic and religious differences, David Brophy explores the place of Islam, and the Muslims of Xinjiang, within the Qing imperium. Qing multilingualism and ideological pluralism rarely extended to the language and faith of Xinjiang’s Muslims. Some scholars have seen this as evidence that the Qing sought, but ultimately failed, to treat the Muslims of Xinjiang as one of its con…
A Tatar Turkist in Chinese Turkistan: Nushirvan Yavshef's travels in Xinjiang, 1914–1917
Among visitors to Xinjiang in the first half of the twentieth century, the name of Nushirvan Yavshef is not the best known, but his writings deserve attention for the unique perspective they offer on local society. Yavshef, a Tatar Muslim from Russia, wrote a series of dispatches from Xinjiang for the Russian Muslim press between 1915 and 1917, totalling over 150 articles. This body of work allows us to ask important questions about the relations…
New Methods on the New Frontier: Islamic Reformism in Xinjiang, 1898-1917
This article recounts the history of Islamic school reform in Xinjiang, from its beginnings in the late 1890s to the crackdown on foreign teachers in Xinjiang schools at the end of World War i. Drawing on a wide range of Turkic-language sources and consular reports, it explores the nature of social and political contacts between the Muslims of Xinjiang and co-believers in the Russian and Ottoman Empires in the early twentieth century. It also see…
Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier
Along the Russian-Qing frontier in the nineteenth century, a new political space emerged, shaped by competing imperial and spiritual loyalties, cross-border economic and social ties, and revolution. David Brophy explores how a community of Central Asian Muslims responded to these historic changes by reinventing themselves as the Uyghur nation
Confusing Black and White: Naqshbandi Sufi Affiliations and the Transition to Qing Rule in the Tarim Basin
This article offers a critique of the prevailing framework for the analysis of Naqshbandi Sufism in Xinjiang, or Eastern Turkistan, from the late seventeenth century onwards: one that describes a division into dynastic Sufi lineages of Isḥaqiyya and Afaqiyya, and treats these terms as equivalent to the factional designations “Black Mountain” and “White Mountain.” I argue that the scholarly tradition has misconstrued key terms in this lexicon, lea…
The Rise of Xinjiang Studies: Ajasnew Author Forum
Perhaps no area of China-related scholarship has taken longer to recover from the access limitations of the mid-twentieth century than the study of Xinjiang. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the study of Xinjiang was so fashionable that it had a wide following in the Western popular press, where the region was better known as Chinese Central Asia, Chinese Turkistan, or Eastern Turkistan. When the turmoil of the Republican and…
A Lingua Franca in Decline? The Place of Persian in Qing China
The Qing dynasty (1636-1912) inherited a large community of Chinese-speaking Muslims from the Ming, and in the eighteenth century incorporated a new population of Turkic-speaking Muslims, the inhabitants of Xinjiang (or Eastern Turkistan), into its territory.The conquering Manchus also took possession of an existing Chinese infrastructure of translation, which had served the Ming court in its dealings with Persophone neighbors.Across this imperia…
Australia’s China Debate in 2018
A Lingua Franca in Decline? The Place of Persian in Qing China
This chapter considers the position of Persian in late imperial China. Far from a straightforward picture of decline, these centuries saw a limited but ongoing role for Persian in various spheres, and even brief windows of increased significance. The first perspective considered is that of the Qing state and its translation infrastructure, which consisted of an inheritance from the Ming, the dynasty’s own institutional innovations, as well as evo…
Good and Bad Muslims in Xinjiang
To justify its repressive polices towards the Turkic-speaking Muslims of Xinjiang, Beijing taps into a global discourse of counterradicalisation that has developed in the context of the US-led War on Terror, a discourse that rests on the dichotomy of extremist vs. moderate Islam.Western commentary, while critical of China's policies in Xinjiang, often reflects this same way of thinking.A more effective critique will challenge the terms of this Is…
He Causes a Ruckus Wherever He Goes: Saʿid Muḥammad al-ʿAsali as a missionary of modernism in north-west China
This article examines the activities of the Syrian hadith scholar Saʿid Muḥammad al-ʿAsali al-Ṭarabulsi al-Shami (1870-1932?), better known as Shami Damulla, as a window onto the relationship between the Ottoman empire and the Muslims of Xinjiang, or Eastern Turkistan. Scholars of Islam in the Soviet Union have identified al-ʿAsali as an influential figure in Soviet Turkistan in the 1920s, but much remains to be clarified about his formative year…
The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery
The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery reveals the way recent scholarship in the field of slavery studies has taken a more expansive turn, in terms of both the geographical and the temporal. These new studies perform area studies-driven analyses of the representation of slavery from national or regional literary traditions that are not always considered by scholars of slavery and explore the diverse range of unfreedoms depicted …
Lessons from History: Leading Historians Tackle Australia’s Greatest Challenges
Lessons from History: Leading Historians Tackle Australia’s Greatest Challenges." Australian Historical Studies, 54(1), pp. 167–168
Unruly Speech: Displacement and the Politics of Transgression
China as Clime: A Response to Evrim Binbaş
Exiles or Intermediaries? East Turkistani Muslims in the Interwar Middle East
Recent political repression in Xinjiang (commonly referred to in sources cited here as Eastern Turkistan) has raised the question of the degree and nature of support for the Uyghur cause in the wider “Islamic world”. Most discussion of Uyghur exile political activity in the Middle East begins with the 1949 Chinese Communist revolution and the flight of leading Uyghur members of the Nationalist Party (Guomindang) to India, and from there to refuge…
Birth of the Geopolitical Age: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China
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