The Uyghurs, a Turkic people comprising a major part of the populationof the Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), China, also havesizable communities in the former Soviet Central Asian Republics, espe-cially in Kazakhstan, where they numbered 220,000 in 1999 (altogetherthe Uyghur population in the newly independent states numbers morethan 300,000). The Central Asian Uyghur community played a signifi-ca ...

Introduction The Uyghurs are the native people of East Turkistan, also known as Shinkiang or Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The latest Chinese census gives the present population of the Uyghurs estimate according to Chinese official statement 8,345,622 million. But the Uyghurs estimate themselves more than twenty millions. There are also 1500,000 Uyghurs in West Turkistan mostly known as Kazakhstan, Uzbe ...

Great politicians will pass from the earth, and the strongest imperial states will collapse and disappear from a new generation's memory, but wisdom, civilization, and cultural heritage will continue to playa significant role among human beings as long as there is human history. The land of the Uyghurs today consists of the Tarim, Junghar, and Turpan basins, situated in the center of Asia. This region has h ...

Introduction to Uyghur literature The Uyghur have a long and rich literary history befitting a people that once ruled a great empire in Central Asia. As soldiers and diplomats and as educators they have always been known as an educated people. The Uyghur have been printing their own books for many hundreds of years prior to the invention of the Guttenberg press. The earliest Uyghur literature revolved aroun ...

Toward the end of the 19th century and into the first decades of the 20th, scientific and archaeological expeditions to the region of Eastern Turkestan´s Silk Road discovered numerous cave temples, monastery ruins, wall paintings, as well as valuable miniatures, books and documents. Explorers from Europe, America and even Japan were amazed by the art treasures found there, and soon their reports caught the ...