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Ben Hales
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PhD student in History and East Asian Languages at Harvard. Modern China, The Uyghur Region/Xinjiang, and wider Inner Asia. he/him
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New Issue of 20th Century China, includes two must-read articles on Inner Asia:
Gyatso Marnyi on "The Creation of Qinghai Province on the Inner Asian Frontier of Republican China," and
@bhales06.bsky.social on "The Cleansing of the Class Ranks Campaign in Altay, 1968–1972." muse.jhu.edu/issue/55629
Project MUSE - Twentieth-Century China-Volume 50, Number 3, October 2025
muse.jhu.edu
October 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Happy to report that Harvard now has access to all eight currently published volumes of Dr Nabijan Tursun’s monumental “General History of the Uyghurs”. Future Uyghur Studies students at Harvard will now be able to benefit from the work of one of the greatest living Uyghur scholars.
December 21, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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Here's my latest article: "Wearing Many Hats: Chinese Muslim General Bai Chongxi and the Chinese Muslim Association during the War of Resistance." It's Open Access and free to read/download!

brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com
December 5, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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Amazon (US) has already made my book available.

Please buy it ($34.99), regardless of whether you plan to read it or not.
December 5, 2024 at 2:52 AM
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In 2025, #ASEEES will spotlight Central Asian studies. Wooohoo! Come to DC, it'll be fun! aseees.org/news/aseees-...
ASEEES Announces 57th ASEEES Annual Convention Theme | Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies
The 2025 ASEEES convention invites scholars working in all disciplines and historical periods to explore the theme of memory as it relates to our region.
aseees.org
November 24, 2024 at 3:36 AM