The Dungan Revolt in the Uigurs song folklore (Based on the scientific journey diary of N. F. Katanova in 1890)
The article contains extracts from the notes of a journey of N. F. Katanov he was keeping during the journey across Semirechye and Xinjiang in summer of 1890. The folk materials of the Kazakhs and Uigurs, dedicated to the Dungan revolt of the 1870s and having an extrinsic value for the study of the locals’ perception of Turkestan’s conquest by China, are published. Songs were the most important communication means under the conditions of lack of mass media and mass illiteracy of the population.