Inland Dramas Performed in Kashgar and the Local Cultural Exchange in the Period of Late Qing and the Early Republic

In late Qing and the early Republican period，various dramas from inland China were performed in the Kashgar region，and many a Uighur people watched these plays，which manifested a strong Chinese cultural influence. How come there was impact of the Han drama upon the Uighur society in Kashgar? What was the historical and social background? What influence did the Han opera culture exert over the Uighur people who believed in Islam? What was the reaction from the Islamic clerics in the Uighur society of Kashgar? Based on foreign and Chinese materials including major Swedish sources，this paper primarily probes the aforementioned issues in order to account for the historical rule in cultural exchange and integration，and to recapitulate some characteristics of the historical progress of the Sinicization of Islam and the crucial role of cultural interaction in the process.