Kim Ho-dong (;

Hanja Hanja (; ), alternatively spelled Hancha, are Chinese characters used to write the Korean language. After characters were introduced to Korea to write Literary Chinese, they were adapted to write Korean as early as the Gojoseon period. () ...

: 金浩東; often written in English-language literature as Hodong Kim or Ho-dong Kim) (born 1954) is a Korean historian, professor at

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. His research interests include

nomadic Nomads are communities without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from areas. Such groups include hunter-gatherers, pastoral nomads (owning livestock), tinkers and trader nomads. In the twentieth century, the population of nomadic pa ...

societies of

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and their interaction with the

Chinese state The government of the People's Republic of China is based on a system of people's congress within the parameters of a unitary communist state, in which the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) enacts its policies through people's congresses. Th ...

Life

Kim Hodong studied with Min Tuki in Seoul, and did his doctoral graduate work at

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, where he was a student of Joseph Fletcher, Jr.

Omeljan Pritsak Omeljan Yosypovych Pritsak (; 7 April 1919 – 29 May 2006) was the first Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of History of Ukraine, Ukrainian History at Harvard University and the founder and first director (1973–1989) of the Harvard Ukrainian Rese ...

, Philip A. Kuhn, and

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were on his dissertation committee as well. Currently he is a professor of Asian history at the

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. He also served as the president of the Korean Association for Central Asian Studies from 2003 to 2006.

Works

Kim's best known work is his 2004 book, "Holy War in China: The Muslim Rebellion and State in Chinese Central Asia, 1864-1877", which had developed from his Harvard doctoral dissertation. This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the rebellion of

Xinjiang Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC romanization, SASM/GNC: Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Sinkiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People' ...

Muslims ( Hui,

Uyghur Uyghur may refer to: * Uyghurs, a Turkic ethnic group living in Eastern and Central Asia (West China) ** Uyghur language, a Turkic language spoken primarily by the Uyghurs *** Old Uyghur language, a different Turkic language spoken in the Uyghur K ...

s, and other smaller groups) against the

Qing The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China and an early modern empire in East Asia. The last imperial dynasty in Chinese history, the Qing dynasty was preceded by the ...

Empire in the 1864–1877, and the career of the Kokandian adventurer

Yaqub Beg Muhammad Yakub Beg (30 May 1877), later known as Yakub Padishah, was the Kokandi ruler of Yettishar (Kashgaria), a state he established in Xinjiang from 1865 to 1877. He was recognized as Emir of Yettishar by the Ottoman Empire and held the ...

who had managed to become the ruler of a large part of the region. An extensive background on the power struggle between the Qing, the

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, the Kokand Khanate, and the indigenous local interests for power in

Kashgaria Yettishar ( Chagatai: ; ; ), also known as Kashgaria or the Kashgar Emirate, was a Uyghur state in Xinjiang that existed from 1864 to 1877, during the Dungan Revolt against the Qing dynasty. It was an Islamic monarchy ruled by Yakub Beg, a ...

in the preceding hundred years is provided as well. The book draws heavily on the contemporary and near-contemporary Xinjiang Muslim sources, in particular Mulla

Musa Sayrami Mulla Musa Sayrami (; ; 1836–1917) was a historian from Xinjiang, known for his account of the events in that region in the 19th century, in particular the Dungan Rebellion of 1864–1877. While the ethnonym Uyghurs, with its modern meaning, ...

's (1836-1917) ''Tarikh-i amaniyya'' and ''Tarikh-i hamidi'', and Mulla Bilal's '' Ghazat dar mulk-i Chin''.For Mulla Bilal's works, se
English translation of N.N.Pantusov's introduction to ''Ghazāt dar mulk-i Chín''
) It is the title of Mulla Bilal's work that became, in its English form, the title of Kim Hodong's book as well. "Holy War in China" makes good use of the Chinese sources as well, as well as documents from the Russians, British, and Osmanlis who had come into contact with the rebels. Despite its title, the book concentrates primarily on the rebellion in Xinjiang, discussing contemporaneous Muslim rebellions in the inner provinces of China only to the extent it is necessary for the Xinjiang narrative. Kim is a co-editor of The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire.

List of works

* Kim Hodong, "Holy War in China: The Muslim Rebellion and State in Chinese Central Asia, 1864-1877". Stanford University Press (March 2004). . (Preface contains some autobiographical information. Searchable text available on Amazon.com) * Kim Hodong, "The Mongol Empire and Korea: The Rise of Qubilai and the Political Status of the Koryŏ Dynasty". Seoul National University Press (June 2007). .

References

* Françoise Aubin
Reflections on the Fletcher Legacy

Institute of Historical Research
* Alexandre Papas,

", ''China perspectives'', n°66, 2006, posted online 2007-06-01
The Korean Association for Central Asian Studies
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