Demetrius Charles de Kavanagh Boulger (1878). The life of Yakoob Beg: Athalik ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar. London: W. H. Allen. p. 152. Consultado el 18 de enero de 2012. «. As one of them expressed it, in pathetic language, "During the Chinese rule there was everything; there is nothing now." The speaker of that sentence was no merchant, who might have been expected to be depressed by the falling-off in trade, but a warrior and a chieftain's son and heir. If to him the military system of Yakoob Beg seemed unsatisfactory and irksome, what must it have appeared to those more peaceful subjects to whom merchandise and barter were as the breath of their nostrils?»
Fairbank; Liu; Kwang-Ching Liu, eds. (1980). Late Ch'ing, 1800–1911. Volume 11, Part 2 of The Cambridge History of China Series (illustrated edición). Cambridge University Press. ISBN0-521-22029-7. Consultado el 18 de enero de 2012.|enlace-editor1= y |enlace-editor= redundantes (ayuda)
Samah Ibrahim (29 de enero de 2019). «China's Uighur Strategy and South Asian Risk». Future Directions International. Archivado desde el original el 30 de septiembre de 2021. Consultado el 30 de abril de 2020. «The creation of the Islamic State of Yettishar (1865–1878), with its capital at Kashgar, which is in present-day Xinjiang, came about as the result of a series of uprisings in Xinjiang.»
Samah Ibrahim (29 de enero de 2019). «China's Uighur Strategy and South Asian Risk». Future Directions International. Archivado desde el original el 30 de septiembre de 2021. Consultado el 30 de abril de 2020. «The creation of the Islamic State of Yettishar (1865–1878), with its capital at Kashgar, which is in present-day Xinjiang, came about as the result of a series of uprisings in Xinjiang.»