Description |
1 online resource (xv, 484 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Series |
Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus |
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Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus
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Contents |
Introduction / S. Frederick Starr -- Political and cultural history of the Xinjiang region through the late 19th century / James A. Millward and Peter C. Perdue -- Political history and strategies of control, 1884-1978 / James A. Millward and Nabijan Tursun -- The Chinese program of development and control, 1978-2001 / Dru C. Gladney -- The great wall of steel: military and strategy in Xinjiang / Yitzhak Shichor -- The economy of Xinjiang / Calla Wiemer -- Education and social mobility among minority populations in Xinjiang / Linda Benson -- A "land of borderlands": implications of Xinjiang's trans-border interactions / Sean R. Roberts -- The demography of Xinjiang / Stanley W. Toops -- The ecology of Xinjiang: a focus on water / Stanley W. Toops -- Public health and social pathologies in Xinjiang / Jay Dautcher -- Acculturation and resistance: Xinjiang identities in flux / Justin Rudelson and William Jankowiak -- Islam in Xinjiang / Graham E. Fuller and Jonathan N. Lipman -- Contested histories / Gardner Bovingdon, with contributions by Nabijan Tursun -- Responses to Chinese rule: patterns of cooperation and opposition / Dr C. Gladney |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
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Print version record |
Subject |
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
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Islam.
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SUBJECT |
Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81018776
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Subject |
China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Starr, S. Frederick
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ISBN |
9781317451372 |
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1317451376 |
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