History
Comes Alive Series
Professor Linda
Benson will present the lecture "Shades
of Genghis Khan: The New "Great Game" Between China, Mongolia
and Russia" at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, February
16 ,2005 in the Oakland
Center Oakland Room.
Professor Benson, a specialist on the Muslim minorities
of China, is the author of four books and numerous articles
as well as the upcoming book Across China's Gobi. She spent
June of 2004 in Mongolia as part of a Fulbright project on
which her presentation is based.
Books and Articles by Dr. Benson at the Kresge Library:
- China
since 1949 (Harlow : Longman, 2002)
- China's last Nomads : the history and culture of China's
Kazak (M.E. Sharpe, 1998)
- Ili
Rebellion : the Moslem challenge to Chinese authority
in Xinjiang, 1944-1949 (M.E. Sharpe, 1990)
- Kazaks
of China : essays on an ethnic minority (editor) (Uppsala
University, 1988)
- (1993) . A Much-Married Woman: Marriage and Divorce
in Xinjiang 1850-1950. Muslim
World 83(3-4) p.227-247
Online Articles about China/Russia (access provided by Kresge
Library*):
- Rahul, Ram (1978). Mongolia
between China and Russia.
Asian Survey 18(7) p. 659-665
- Ewing, Thomas (1980). Ch'ing
Policies in Outer Mongolia 1900-1911. Modern Asian Studies 14(1) p. 145-157
- Ginsburg, Tom (1995). Political
Reform in Mongolia: Between Russia and China. Asian Survey 35(5) p. 459-471
*Please note, access to some materials
is restricted to use by Oakland Students, Faculty,
and
Staff (or from a computer located on the Oakland network). Find
out why...