Teacher, Translator, Socialist, Spy: The Many Revolutions of a Uyghur Bolshevik

Date(s)： 2024/10/17

Time： 10:00~12:00

Venue： Archives 2nd Conference Hall

Speaker：Prof. Joshua L. Freeman (Assistant research fellow, IMH, AS)

Disscussant： Prof. Yu Miin-ling (Adjunct research fellow, IMH, AS)

Organizer： IMH

Abstract,
From the 1930s through the 1970s, Soviet Uyghur intellectual Meshür Roziev played an important role in Uyghur political and cultural life on both sides of the Sino-Soviet border. His work likewise influenced Sino-Soviet relations and helped shape nationality policy in the People’s Republic of China. Roziev is the focus of my new book project, which considers what his life and career can tell us about modern Uyghur history, Sino-Soviet relations, twentieth-century Central Asian history, and the relationship between socialism and nation formation. This presentation is based on what I intend to be the book’s fourth chapter, entitled “Our Man in Ürümchi,” which focuses on Roziev’s work in Xinjiang between 1935 and 1938.

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