Research




Manuscript in progress

The Poetry of Power: Uyghur National Culture in Twentieth-Century China


Peer-reviewed publications in English

The Posthumous Echo of the Personal Network: Poetic Eulogies to Lutpulla Mutellip,” in Community Still Matters: Uyghur Culture and Society in Central Asian Context, ed. Aysima Mirsultan, Eric Schluessel and Eset Sulayman, 274-94 (Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2022).

Nation Building Across National Borders: A Uyghur Hero in Three Socialist States,” Asian Ethnicity 22.1 (2021): 140-54.

Uyghur Newspapers in Republican China: The Emergence of Mass Media in Xinjiang,” in Xinjiang in the Context of Central Eurasian Transformations, ed. Onuma Takahiro, David Brophy and Shinmen Yasushi, 221-50 (Tokyo: Toyo Bunko, 2018).


Peer-reviewed publications in Uyghur

پەرھات تۇرسۇن شېئىر ئىجادىيىتىدىكى ئىككى دەۋر توغرىسىدا” [Two Periods in Perhat Tursun’s Poetry], Shinjang uniwérsitéti ilmiy zhurnili (Pelsepe-ijtima'iy pen qismi) [Xinjiang University Scholarly Journal (Humanities)] 33.1 (2012): 91-98.

ئىككى گۇڭگا شائىرنىڭ ئىجادىيىتى ھەققىدە سېلىشتۇرما ئىزدىنىش” [A Comparative Study of Two Modernist Poets' Work], Shinjang pédagogika uniwérsitéti ilmiy zhurnili (Ijtima'iy pen qismi) [Xinjiang Normal University Scholarly Journal (Humanities)] 27.3 (2012): 73-78.


Book reviews

Review of Darren Byler, Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2022), The Journal of Asian Studies 81.4 (2022): 749-50.

Review of Eric Schluessel, Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020), The China Journal 88 (July 2022): 193-95.

Review of Guangtian Ha & Slavs and Tatars, eds., The Contest of the Fruits (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2021), The Times Literary Supplement No. 6197 (7 January 2022): 7.

Review of David Brophy, Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier (Harvard University Press, 2016), SCTIW Review (February 2017).

Review of Memtimin Hoshur, Qum basqan sheher [The Sand-Covered City] (Urumchi: Yashlar-Ösmürler Neshriyati, 1996), Translation Review 80:1 (2012): 135-36.


Encyclopedia and anthology pieces

“The Kashgar Diary of a Uyghur Bolshevik: Meshür Roziev in Xinjiang, 1936,” in Muslims in Modern China: A Sourcebook, ed. Kristian Petersen and Michael Gibbs Hill (Columbia University Press, forthcoming).

“Uyghur Avant-Garde Poetry”; “‘Answer to the Years,’ by Lutpulla Mutellip,” in The Palgrave Macmillan Anthology of Modern Central Asian Literature, ed. Gabriel MacGuire, et al. (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).

Uyghur Literature,” in Pop Culture in Asia and Oceania, ed. Jeremy A. Murray and Kathleen M. Nadeau (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2016), 88-91.