dungan – Central Asia Program

Book presentation: “Mystical Forest: Collected Poems and Short Stories of Dungan Ethnographer Ali Dzhon”

17 September, 2024

Born in Shor-Tyube, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR, in 1951, Dungan ethnographer and creative writer Ali Dzhon is widely regarded as the pre-eminent writer on the material and spiritual culture…

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The Language and Writing of the Dungans

20 October, 2023

Online lecture with Professor Zhang Zhengsheng November 3, 2023 @ 4:00 – 5:00 PM (EDT) The Dungan people, descendants of Chinese Hui Muslims who migrated to Central Asia over a…

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Dungan Folktales and Legends: The Folkloric Narrative Tradition of the Sino-Muslims in Central Asia

4 October, 2022

Dungan Folktales and Legends: The Folkloric Narrative Tradition of the Sino-Muslims in Central Asia First migrating from northwest China to Russian Central Asia after the suppression of the Dungan Revolt…