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Suggestions for Further Reading and Internet Resourc e s 3 2 5Israeli, Raphael. 1978. Muslims in China. London: Curzon Press; Atlantic Highlands,NJ: Humanities Press.This early study examines the history of Islam in China as one of alienationand rebellion. Unfortunately, the work suffers from a biased view of Islamicaccommodation to non-Muslim rule, but nevertheless it contains invaluablematerial on Chinese imperial rule over Muslim regions.Lipman, Jonathan. 1997. Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Nort h w e s tC h i n a . Seattle: University of Washington Press.This book is a very readable and useful overview of the history of Islam inChina, with a focus on the Republican nationalist period and last half of theQing Empire (eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries).Rudelson, Justin Jon. 1997. Oasis Identities: Uyghur Nationalism along China’sSilk Road. New York: Columbia University Press.This is the best available ethnographic study of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. It isbased on fieldwork conducted in the mid-1990s and is geographically focusedon the Turpan region.Internet ResourcesPhotographs of northwest China and its Muslim populations and the text oflectures dealing with other aspects of Islam in China can be found atw w w. h a w a i i . e d u / d r u .Information relating to Uyghuristan/East Turkistan, including maps, areavailable at www. c c s . u k y.edu/~rakhim/et.html. As mentioned in Chapter 6,many of the transnational organizations advocating Uyghur autonomy fromChina have active Web sites. The home page of the East Turkistan (Uyghuristan)National Congress appears in English at www. e a s t t u r k i s t a n . c o m /html/main.html. The East Turkestan information center—whose banner proclaimsthat it supports “Freedom, Independence and Democracy for EastTurkistan!”—can be found at www. u y g u r.org/. As do many other sites of thiskind, this one has mirror sites available in a number of languages, rangingfrom Arabic and Turkish to German and Chinese. The Web site of the UyghurAmerican Association (UAA) is www. u y g h u r a m e r i c a n . o r g / .