Central and Inner Asia Studies : Publications

• The Exploitation Of The Landscape Of Central And Inner Asia: Past, Present And Future
  

  Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia No.9, Asian Institute, University of Toronto, 2008. Edited by Michael Gervers, Uradyn E. Bulag & Gillian Long.

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• Traders and Trade Routes of Central and Inner Asia: The 'Silk Road,' Then and Now
  

  Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia No.8, Asian Institute, University of Toronto, 2007. Edited by Michael Gervers, Uradyn E. Bulag & Gillian Long.

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• History and Society in Central and Inner Asia
  

  Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia No.7, Asian Institute, University of Toronto, 2005. Edited by Michael Gervers, Uradyn E. Bulag & Gillian Long.

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• Cultural Interaction and Conflict in Central and Inner Asia
  

  Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia No.6, Asian Institute, University of Toronto, 2004. Edited by Michael Gervers, Uradyn E. Bulag & Gillian Long.

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• Continuity and Change in Central and Inner Asia
  

  Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia No.5, Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, 2002. Edited by Michael Gervers & Wayne Schlepp.

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• Religion, Customary Law and Nomadic Technology
  

  Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia No.4, Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, 2000. Edited by Michael Gervers & Wayne Schlepp.

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• Historical Themes & Current Change in Central & Inner Asia
  

  Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia No.3, Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, 1999. Edited by Michael Gervers & Wayne Schlepp.

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• Cultural Contact, History and Ethnicity in Inner Asia
  

  Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia No.2, Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, 1996. Edited by Michael Gervers & Wayne Schlepp.

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• Nomadic Diplomacy, Destruction and Religion from the Pacific to the Adriatic
  

  Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia No.1, Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, 1994. Edited by Michael Gervers & Wayne Schlepp.

  Price: $12.00 CDN
  
  
  

The Exploitation Of The Landscape Of Central And Inner Asia: Past, Present And Future

• Küt and Dzhut: Food and Famine in Central Asia
  STEPHANIE BUNN
• Trees: Disease and Healing
  RUTH I. MESERVE
• Rediscovering Colonised Landscapes: The First Europeans at the Mustagh Pass, Karakoram Himalaya, Inner Asia
  KENNETH HEWITT

• The Allocation of Greater Armenian Land under the Mongol Noyans (Commanders) (1220-45)
  DASHDONDOG BAYARSAIKHAN
• Kongnyŏ: Korean Tribute Women and Mongol-Koryŏ Relations during the 13^th and 14^th Centuries
  GEORGE QINGZHI ZHAO
• "On Either Side the River": The Rise of the Manchu State and Chason's Jurchen Subjects
  ADAM BOHNET
• Death and Burial in Twentieth-Century Mongolia
  DENYSJ. VOADEN

• Monasteries in and around Kökeqota
  WAYNE SCHLEPP
• The Widening Circle of Mongolian Shamanic Practice
  CATHERINE KMITA

• Russian Exploitation of the Landscape of Central Asia: Past and Present
  HABIBOLLAH ABOLHASSAN SHIRAZI
• Reining in the Periphery: The Modernization of Economic and Human Geographies in Post-Liberation Xinjiang
  HASAN KARRAR
• Gas, Oil and Water Don't Mix: Are Energy Resource Exports Undermining Central Asian Water Management?
  KEELY LANGE
• Resource Curse Avoidance Policies in Kazakhstan: Intentions, Debates and Realities
  NYGMET IBADILDIN

Traders and Trade Routes of Central and Inner Asia: The 'Silk Road,' Then and Now

• 'Hungry for Han Goods': Zhang Qian and the Origins of the Silk Roads
  CRAIG BENJAMIN
• Peddling Islam: The Merchant in Early Conversion Narratives of the Central Asian Turks
  PATRICK A. HATCHER
• Samarkand: How the Trade Routes Became the Urban Stage of Power
  DOMENICO CATANIA AND CLAUDIO RUBINI
• The Traders ofInner Eurasia: Volga Bulgaria in Eurasian Trade, 9th-14th Centuries
  MIKHAIL ZELDOVICH
• Mongols, Barbarians, and the Great Suzerain: The Shifting Nomenclature of the Mongols during the Early Koryo-Mongol Relations in the 13th Century
  MIJI LEE
• Indian Merchants in Nineteenth-Century Bukhara: Trade Network and Socio-Cultural Role
  M.S. KALANDAROVA
• Bukharan Traders and Entrepreneurs in the Late Nineteenth-Early Twentieth Centuries and their Links with Russia
  AUDREY BURTON
• Continuity and Change in the Trade of Xinjiang into the 1920s
  DANIEL C. WAUGH

• Ancient Populations of Mongolia
  TUMEN DASHTSEVEG
• Trading Dance for Identity: The Mongolian Dance, Andai
  CATHY KMITA AND MARGUERITE GARNER
• Mediators in the Transnational Marketplace: Wholesalers of Tibetan Ceremonial Scarves and the Marketing of Meaning
  CHRISTINA HARRIS
• The Back of Beyond: Trade, Geography and Central Asia's Predicament
  LEVENT HEKIMOGLU
• Trade and the Role ofa New Silk Road for Traders in Central Asia: The Iranian Case
  HABIBOLLAH ABOLHASSAN SHIRAZI

• New Ways of Revitalizing Trade Routes and the Economy in Uzbekistan
  FARIDUN ODILOV
• Economic Reform in Authoritarian Uzbekistan
  MARTIN C. SPECHLER
• New Trade Routes and New Traders of Energy Resources in Central Asia and the Caspian Sea Region
  PINAR IPEK
• Mongolian and Tuvan Aid to Wartime Russia
  DENYS J. VOADEN

• Teaching and Trading: Local Voices and Global Issues from Central Asia
  SARFAROZ NIYOZOV AND DUISHON SHAMATOV
• Public Policies in the Higher Education of Kazakhstan
  ALMAZ TOLYMBEK

History and Society in Central and Inner Asia

• The Role of Islam and Expansion of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Domestic Environment of Central Asia
  HABIBOLLAH ABOLHASSAN SHIRAZI
• Female Anxiety and Female Power: the Political Involvement of Mongol Empresses during the 13th and 14th Centuries
  GEORGE QINGZHI ZHAO AND RICHARD W. L. GUISSO
• From Nomad’s Tent to Garden Palace: Evolution of a Chinggisid Household in the Crimea
  MARYNA KRAVETS

• Linking the Doctrinal and the Textual with the Visual Representation of the Parinirvana Scenes in the Kizil Grottoes
  RAJESHWARI GHOSE
• ‘A Nation of Nomads’? The Lifeway of the Yuezhi in the Gansu and Bactria
  CRAIG BENJAMIN
• The Buddhists of Bamiyan: Tibetan Vajrayana Roots in Afghanistan
  NICHOLAS CORBETT
• From the Domestic to the Divine: Kyrgyz Shyrdak Felts
  STEPHANIE BUNN

• Homeland as a Domestic Sphere in Kazakhstan: Historical Homeland (Istorichskie Rodina), Homeland (Rodina) and Soviet Homeland (Sovietskoe Rodina)
  JAKOB RIGI
• The Rise of Modem Uighur Nationalism
  JENNIFER TAYNEN
• Tajikistan’s Civil Society Environment: Endogenous Preferences & Exogenous Perceptions
  NAJAM ABBAS
• Ethno-nationalism in Post-Soviet Central Asia and Uzbekistan
  MAITE OJEDA MATA
• Authoritarian Regimes in Central Asia and their Impact within the Domestic Environment
  JAFAR GHAMAT
• Abstract of Research: The Impact of Globalization on the National Values of Central Asian States
  ASET ABDUALlYEV

• The Welfare State and Gender: New Directions in Reshaping a Welfare Policy of Post-Soviet Republics of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan
  AYSEGUL KOZAK AND GULSEREN ISIK
• Language, Literacy and Education in Tajikistan
  STEPHEN A. BAHRY
• Challenges of Education and History Teaching in Kyrgyzstan
  DUISHON SHAMATOV
• Coverage of Environmental and Environmental Health News of Central Asia by Independent News Web Sites
  ERIC FREEDMAN
• Activities of the International Charitable Foundation Meerim in Kyrgyzstan
  NURMIRA JAMANGULOVA

• Ecological Problems of Central Asia Resulting from Space Rocket Debris
  M. NAURYZBAEV, S. BATYRBEKOVA, B. KENESOV, KH. TASSIBEKOV, A. VOROZHEIKIN, YU. PROSKURYAKOV
• A Looming Water Crisis in Chinese Central Asia: Are the Kariz Dying Out in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR)?
  GULBAHAR MATTOHTI

Cultural Interaction and Conflict in Central and Inner Asia

Contents

• Control through Conciliation: Royal Marriages Between the Mongol Yuan and Koryŏ (Korea) During the 13th and 14th Centuries
  GEORGE ZHAO
• Constructing the "Green Isle": Changing Notions of Territory and Homeland Among Crimean Tatars
  BRIAN GLYN WILLIAMS
• Kipling’s Afghanistan
  NEIL MORAN

• The Relationship Between Land and People in Kyrgyzstan
  STEPHANIE BUNN
• A Young History Teacher in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
  DUISHON SHAMATOV
• The Physical and Human Geography of Inner Asia in the Early 1920s Through the Eyes and Lens of C. P. Skrine
  DANIEL C. WAUGH
• The Space Between Two Journeys: Kazakh Social Organization and Rural to Urban Migration
  SAULESH YESSENOVA

• Hybridity and Conquest: Patterns of Liao (AD 907-1125) Khitan Tomb Burial
  HIROMI KINOSHITA
• The Oases Settlements of Central Asia
  MANU P. SOBTI
• Red Lintels, Green Rooftops: The Role of Architecture in Eight Paintings from Temple 9 at Bezeklik
  NANCY SHATZMAN STEINHARDT

• The African Emergence and Early Human Expansion into Near East and Central Asia: “Out-of-Africa Hypothesis” from Near Eastern and Central Asian Point of View
  KAMAL ALDIN NIKNAMI
• Natural and Human Geography of Miyankuh
  EMRAN GARAZHIAN AND LEILA PAPOLI YAZDI
• Miyankuh People: Adaptation of Village Plans to Their Environment
  EMRAN GARAZHIAN
• An Ethno-Archaeological Perspective on the Lack of Agricultural Land and Multi-Professions in Miyankuh
  LEILA PAPOLI YAZDI
• Analytical Study of Architectural Monuments and Data in Southern Turkmenia and Western Iran
  SIMA YADOLLAHI

• Explaining the Emergence of the Hizb ut-Tahrir in Kyrgyzstan: Structure, Chance, Choice
  ALISHER KHAMIDOV
• The Conquest of a Common Cultural Legacy: Turkey and Turkic Asia
  PIERRE CYRIL PAHLAVI
• Land Reform and Privatization in Central Asia: Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
  HABIBOLLAH ABOLHASSAN SHIRAZI
• Myth of Pan-Turkism: Turkish Central Asian Policy in the Early 1990s
  SAPARBEK TUYAKBAYEV
• Competition in the Countries of Central Asia in the Name of Cultural Influence
  EMMA BEGIJANYAN
• Caliphate in Central Asia: Islamist Ambition or Political Fantasy?
  ANDREW MCGREGOR

• A Market Approach for Water Use in Central Asia: Instituting the Bank of the Aral Sea and Utilizing Grass-Root Water User Associations
  KUATBAY BEKTEMIROV AND LUKE POTOSKI
• Water Consumption as a Management Factor for the Sustainable Development of Uzbekistan
  ROKHAT M. USMANOVA
• The Kazakh Mining Industry: Economic and Social Impacts
  PETER BOJKOV

• The Secret History of the Mongols, A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century
  PAUL KAHN

Continuity and Change in Central and Inner Asia

Contents

• Les Européens de l’Asie centrale: une culture entre deux mondes
  BORIS CHUKHOVICH
• The Sources of Kazakhstani Conduct
  ROBERT M. CUTLER
• The Western Lands XIYU in the Political Thinking of the Qing Empire
  DINA DOUBROVSKAIA
• The Ethnic Origin of the Huns and their Appearance in Eastern Europe
  JUSUF DZAFAROV
• Turkic Nomads: The Élite of Ninth-Century Muslim Armies
  GHADA JAYYUSI LEHN
• Repatriation to Kazakhstan: History and Current Situation
  GULNARA MENDIKULOVA
• Russia’s Great Game in Tibet?
  DAVID SCHIMMELPENNINCK
  

• The Problems of Reconciling the values of Civil Society with the Requirements of a Market Economy in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan
  RAHAT ACHYLOVA
• Economic Prospects for Central Asia: Competing in the Global Marketplace
  GULNARA MOLDASHEVA
• The Cult of Heaven (Tengris) in the Buryat-Mongolian Epic
  B. S. DUGAROV
• Iranian Social and Economic Development
  EDITA NESZMELYI
• The Main Characteristics of Mongolian and Korean Economic Development, Focussing on Agriculture
  GYORGY NESZMELYI
  

• Reinventing the Dzud: an Evolving Disaster and an Evolving Term
  OTTO FARKAS
• The Cult of Heaven (Tengris) in the Buryat-Mongolian Epic
  ROSALIND BRADFORD
• Coin and Sculpture Arts of the Kushan Era, First to fourth centuries AD
  DAVID JONGEWARD
• Observations on the honorific system of Korean
  HYE-YOUNG IM
• The Nomadic Cultural Perspective in the Kazak Language
  TALANT MAWKANULI
• Wife, Mother, Shamaness, Warrior Woman: The Role of Women in Mongolian and Siberian Epic Tales
  SARANGEREL
• The Skylark Myth in Buryat Epic and the Siberian Tradition of the Bird-Shaman
  BAYAR DUGAROV
• Urban Metamorphosis and Change in the Central Asian Region after the Arab Invasions: An Analysis of Archaeological Findings, Literature and Scholarly Writings
  MANU P. SOBTI
• Examples of Iconographical Usage: the Bronze Basin from the Hodja Ahmad Ysawi Shrine in Turkestan and the Nisan Tasi in the Mawlana’s Lodge in Konya
  BURCU TEKIN & HAKAN TEKIN
• Population Decadence and Dynastic Decline in the Mongol Empire
  GEORGE ZHAO
  

Religion, Customary Law, and Nomadic Technology

Contents

• The Creation of Cloth-Weaving Traditions amongst the
  Nomadic Pastoralists of Rupshu (Eastern Ladakh)
  MONISHA AHMED
• Uighurs and Technologies of Literacy
  MICHAEL C. BROSE
• Material Culture of the Nomadic Uighurs of the
  Eighth-Ninth Centuries in Central Asia
  ABLET KAMALOV
• The Uses of Blood in Traditional Inner Asian Societies
  RUTH I. MESERVE
• The Nomads’ Armament: Home Made Weaponry
  JOHN MASSON SMITH JR
• Zamzam Water on A White Felt Carpet: Adapting Mongol Ways
  In Muslim Central Asia, 1550-1650
  R. D. McCHESNEY
  

• Christianity and the Nomads of the Black Sea and Caspian Steppes
  JOSEPH DZAFAROV
• The Buryat Geser Epic and Its Relationship with Buryat Shamanism
  SARANGEREL
• The Cult of Heaven (Tengris) in the Buryat-Mongolian Epic
  B. S. DUGAROV
• Buddhism and Revolution in Mongolia
  IRINA MOROZOVA
• Aspects of Medieval Mongolian Law: An Exercise in Legal Archaeology,
  Or, A View through the Lens of Legal History
  ROBERT W. REID
  

Historical Themes and Current Change in Central and Inner Asia

Contents

• Central Asia’s Continuing Role in the World Economy to 1800
  ANDRE GUNDER FRANK
• Power and Ethnicity in the Northern Liao Secession, 1122-1123
  PAUL C. FORAGE
• The Cult of the Kökönuur Lake: Ritual and Political Control of Nomads in 18th-20th Century China
  URADYN E. BULAG
• At the Western Fringe of the Steppe
  RUDI PAUL LINDNER

• Tiger Stripe Patterned Chinese Textiles
  JOHN E. VOLLMER AND JACQUELINE SIMCOX
• A Sogdian Thaurnaturgical Text from Dunhuang and the Origins of Inner Asian Weather Magic
  DAVID A. UTZ
• Areal Religious Phenomena in Tibet and Central Eurasia
  MICHAEL WALTER

• Transitional Political Institutions in Modern Kazakstan
  ZHANYLZHAN DZHUNUSOVA
• Kazakhstan and Efforts at Economic Integration with Other CIS States: The Customs Union and the Single Economic Space
  NATSUKO OKA
• Tadjikistan, Une Guerre Inévitable?
  NASRIN DADMEHR
• Environmental Scarcity: Considering the Aral Sea Basin
  IAN SMALL

Cultural Contact, History and Ethnicity in Inner Asia

Contents

• Art and Identity: The Chinese and their ‘Significant others’ in the Third and Second Millennium BC
  KATHERYN M. LINDUFF
• On Medieval and Early Modern Science and Technology in Central Eurasia
  RUTH I. MESERVE
• Western Embassies to the Mongols and the Prospects for Their Conversion, 1245-1253
  PAUL L. SIDELKO

• Tree Worship in Early Mongolia
  CHAOLU WU (Chuluu Ujiyediin)
• Instruction and Entertainment in the Naiman Battle Text: An Analysis of 189 through 196 ofThe Secret History of the Mongols
  PAUL KAHN
• Diary of Ivan Iakovlevich Korostovets, Russian Plenipotentiary in the Russo-Mogolian Negotiations in Urga in 1912-13
  OLGA BAKICH

• Contested History: Issues in the Historiography of Inner Asia’s Uighurs
  LINDA BENSON
• Modern Uyghur, A Historical Perspective
  JEAN-R. DUVAL
• The Xinjiang Mummies and Foreign Angels: Art, Archaeology and Uyghur Muslim Nationalism in Chinese Central Asia
  JUSTIN JON RUDELSON

Nomadic Diplomacy, Destruction and Religion from the Pacific to the Adriatic

Contents

• The Spread of World Religions in Medieval Nomadic Societies of the Eurasian Steppes
  ANATOLY M. KHAZANOV
• "Spurred on by the Fear of Death": Refugees and Displaced Populations during the Mongol Invasion of Hungary
  JAMES ROSS SWEENEY
• Two Cultural Brokers of Medieval Eurasia: Bolad Aqa and Marco Polo
  THOMAS T. ALLSEN