From May 31 to June 1, 2019, the international symposium “The 1916 Uprising in Central Asia: academic integration, new approaches and knowledge”  took place in Karakol.

Panel 5. Memory about uprising.

Gulzada Abdalieva. “Sad blood flows in our veins”: three Urkuns in the memory of Kyrgyz.

Abstract: This article addresses the issue of the traumatic memory of three Urkun Kyrgyz living in the territory of modern China. The article is written on the basis of field research conducted in China, where Kyrgyz residents live compactly as a result of forced migration. The main objective of the article is an attempt to find out how the memory of forced migration was formed in the minds of Kyrgyz living in China.

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