Constructing, Creating and Contesting Cityscapes. A Socio-Anthropological Approach to Urban Transformation in Southern Xinjiang, People’s Republic of China

This manuscript is based on a PhD thesis submitted at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern in 2014. The dissertation was part of the research project „Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Chinese Territoriality. The Development of Infrastructure and Han Migration into the Region“ under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Heinzpeter Znoj and financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF. Madlen Kobi analyzes the architectural and socio-political transformation of public places and spaces in rapidly urbanizing southern Xinjiang, P.R. China, and in doing so pays particular attention to the cities of Aksu and Kaxgar. As the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region lies in between China and Central Asia, it is especially characterized by differing political, cultural, and religious influences, and, furthermore, due to its being a multiethnic region, by multiple identities. One might expect cultural and social identities in this area to be negotiated by referring to history, religion, or food. However, they also become visible by the construction and reconstruction, if not demolition, of public places, architectural landmarks, and private residences. Based on ethnographic fieldwork performed in 2011 and 2012, the study explores everyday life in a continuously transforming urban environment shaped by the interaction of the interests of government institutions, investment companies, the middle class, and migrant workers, among many other actors. Here, urban planning, modernization, and renewal form a highly sensitive lens through which the author inspects the tense dynamics of ethnic, religious, and class-based affiliations. She respects varieties and complexities while thoroughly grounding unfolding transformation processes in everyday lived experiences. The study provides vivid insights into how urban places and spaces in this western border region of China are constructed, created, and eventually contested.

Foreign missions their relations and claims /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Medulla asceseos, seu, Exercitia Spiritualia S. P. Ignatii de Loyola /

"Accedit Triduum sacrum, omnium, præcipue religiosorum, usui accommodatum, una cum facili methodo expeditè meditandi."

The Antananarvio annual and Madagascar magazine.

A record of information on the topography and natural productions of Madagascar, and the customs, traditions, language and religious beliefs of its people.

The monthly religious magazine.

Title from caption.

Der Untergang des Templer-Ordens : mit urkundlichen und kritischen Beiträgen /

Bd.1. I. Abth. Darstellender Theil.--II. Abth. Kritischer Theil.--Bd.2. Urkunden.

International Congress of Arts and Science.

Contents.--v. 1. Philosophy and metaphysics.--v. 2. Aesthetics and mathematics.--v. 3. History and law.--v. 4. Law and religion.--v. 5. History of language.--v. 6. Literature and art.--v. 7. Physics and chemistry.--v. 8. Astronomy and earth sciences.--v. 9. Biology.--v. 10. Anthropology and mental science.--v. 11. Medicine.--v. 12. Medicine and technology.--v. 13. Economics and social regulation.--v. 14. Jurisprudence and social science.--v. 15. Secular and religious education.

Tipitaka; [Buddhist scriptures, sacred writings of the southern Buddhists]

Vol. 1 has pasted in pamphlet by Charles R. Lanman, The King of Siam's ed. of the Buddhist scriptures and the Harvard copy of the first Sanskrit book ever printed. 1895.

Invitation to contractors, information for contractors and forms of contract, bond and contractor's proposal for the supply of ... [materials] for use in the construction of rapid transit railroads.

On covers: Contract for the supply of ... [materials] Order [s] ...

The removal of the Indians. An article from the American monthly magazine: an examination of an article in the North American review: and an exhibition of the advancement of the southern tribes, in civilization and Christianity ...

Authorship variously attributed to Jeremiah Evarts, to George B. Cheever, and to Convers Francis. cf. Tracy, E. C., Memoir of the life of Jeremiah Evarts, Boston, 1845, p. 431; The American monthly magazine, v. 1, Jan., 1830; Sabin, Bibl. amer., v. 17, no. 69590; and Cheever, G. B., Memorabilia, New York, 1890, p. viii.

Collectaneous epitaphs : chiefly designed to assist surviving relations in fixing upon suitable inscriptions, for the tombs and grave-stones of deceased friends ... /

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Revolutionary orders of General Washington, issued during the years 1778, '80, '81, & '82, selected from the mss. of John Whiting,

"The selection has been mostly confined to the orders which were issued by General Washington ... The division brigade, and regimental orders ... have been generally excluded."

Religious pamphlets

A collection of miscellaneous pamphlets on religion.

Reminiscences of Scottish life and character /

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Gambling exposed : a full exposition of all the various arts, mysteries, and miseries of gambling /

"A discourse on the evils of gaming. By Rev. E. H. Chapin": p. 273-291.