Format:
Online-Ressource (507 p)
ISBN:
9780765613172
Series Statement:
Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus Ser.
Content:
Eastern Turkestan, now known as Xinjiang or the New Territory, makes up a sixth of China's land mass. Absorbed by the Qing in the 1880s and reconquered by Mao in 1949, this Turkic-Muslim region of China's remote northwest borders on formerly Soviet Central Asia, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Mongolia, and Tibet, Will Xinjiang participate in twenty-first century ascendancy, or will nascent Islamic radicalism in Xinjiang expand the orbit of instability in a dangerous part of the world? This comprehensive survey of contemporary Xinjiang is the result of a major collaborative research project begun in 199
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables and Illustrative Materials; List of Acronyms; Note on Transliteration; 1. Introduction; Part I. Historical Background; 2. Political and Cultural History of the Xinjiang Region through the Late Nineteenth Century; 3. Political History and Strategies of Control, 1884-1978; Part II. Chinese Policy Today; 4. The Chinese Program of Development and Control, 1978-2001; 5. The Great Wall of Steel: Military and Strategy in Xinjiang; Part III. Xinjiang from Within; 6. The Economy of Xinjiang
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7. Education and Social Mobility among Minority Populations in Xinjiang8. A ""Land of Borderlands"": Implications of Xinjiang's Trans-border Interactions; Part IV. Costs of Control and Development; 9. The Demography of Xinjiang; 10. The Ecology of Xinjiang: A Focus on Water; 11. Public Health and Social Pathologies in Xinjiang; Part V. The Indigenous Response; 12. Acculturation and Resistance: Xinjiang Identities in Flux; 13. Islam in Xinjiang; 14. Contested Histories; 15. Responses to Chinese Rule: Patterns of Cooperation and Opposition; Notes; Bibliographic Guide to Xinjiang; Contributors
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Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781317451372
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780765613172
Additional Edition:
Print version Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland
Language:
English
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