Publications

In press
“Muslim Histories of China: Historiography across Boundaries in Central Eurasia.” Chapter for volume Frontiers and Boundaries: Encounters on China’s Margins. In press at Harrassowitz Publishers

2011
“Genealogy, History, Nation.” Nationalities Papers. 39:1, pp. 33–53

2009
“Epics, Music, and Shamans in Central Asia and Southern Siberia.” Journal of American Folklore, vol. 122, pp. 224-228

2008
Review of Répertoire des pétroglyphes d'Asie centrale. Appeared in Mongolian Studies—Journal of the Mongolia Society pp. 98-104

2008
Review of Alexandre Papas. Soufisme et politique entre Chine, Tibet et Turkestan: étude sur les Khwajas Naqshbandis du Turkestan oriental. In Journal of Asian Studies 66:4, 1152-1156

2008
Intimate Heritage. Creating Uyghur Muqam Song in Xinjiang. Münster: LIT

2007
‘Cultural Politics and the Pragmatics of Resistance: Reflexive Discourses on Culture and History’, in Ildikó Bellér-Hann, M. Cristina Cesàro, Rachel Harris and Joanne Smith Finley (eds), Situating the Uyghurs between China and Central Asia, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 49-68

2007
“Participation and Analysis in Studying Religion in Central Asia.” In Mazar Worship in Kyrgyzstan: Rituals and Practitioners in Talas. Gulnara Aitpaeva, ed. Bishkek: Aigine Cultural Research Center, pp. 476-497

2006
“Uyghur.” In The Greenwood encyclopedia of world folklore and folklife, William M. Clements, ed. Greenwood Press. Vol. 2, pp. 335-348

2006
“An 8th Century Turkic Narrative: Pragmatics, reported speech and managing information.” Turkic Languages (Harrassowitz), 10:2, pp. 155-186

2005
“Xinjiang: An Annotated Bibliography.” (600 items) Silk Road Foundation Newsletter, 3:1, pp. 28-49 (http://www.silk-road.com/newsletter/vol3num1/6_turkistan.php)

2004
“Islamic Parts of China.” Review essay, London Times Literary Supplement, 10 December

1999
“Tabloid Archaeology: Is Television Trivializing Science?” Discovering Archaeology (Mar-Apr.) 98-102

1994
Qazaqs in the People's Republic of China: The Local Processes of History. Indiana Center on Global Change and World Peace, MacArthur Scholar Series, Occasional Paper No. 22, Bloomington, 118 pages (http://homepages.utoledo.edu/nlight/qazaqs.htm)

1993
“Kazakhs of the Tarbaghatai: Ethno-History through the Novel.” The Turkish Studies Association Bulletin. 17:2, 91-102

1992
“乌兹别克木卡姆中的一首歌的语言音乐及语义结构” [“Verbal, musical and semantic structures in an Uzbek Maqom Song”] Zhongguo Yinyue [Chinese Music] 1, 32-34

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