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[[Uyghurs in Kazakhstan|Uyghur migrants to Kazakhstan]] began reviving the ''meshrep'' as early as the 1970s.<ref name="Roberts204">
[[Uyghurs in Kazakhstan|Uyghur migrants to Kazakhstan]] began reviving the ''meshrep'' as early as the 1970s.<ref name="Roberts204"/>


==Notes==
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A meshrep (Uyghur: مەشرەپ) is a traditional Uyghur and Central Asian social group, connected to the celebration of the autumn harvest festival.[1] Traditionally formed of men, these groups traditionally formed part of the informal governance structure of Uyghur communities, and still serve this function outside of China.[2]

The banning of the traditional meshrep by Chinese authorities in 1997, which had only been allowed since 1994, was one of the main causes of the Ghulja Incident.[3]

Uyghur migrants to Kazakhstan began reviving the meshrep as early as the 1970s.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ What is a Meshrep?
  2. ^ a b Roberts 2007, p. 204
  3. ^ "China: Remember the Gulja massacre? China's crackdown on peaceful protesters". Amnesty International.

References

  • Roberts, Sean R. (2007), "'The Dawn of the East': A Portrait of a Uyghur Community Between China and Kazakhstan", in Bellér-Hann, Ildikó (ed.), Situating the Uyghurs between China and Central Asia, Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific, Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 9780754670414