1 Drawing Boundaries; 'Xinjiang' or 'East Turkestan'?; How the west was 'won'; The Qing expansion; Rebellion; Independence?; 2 'Liberation': The Communist Era Begins; The chaos of the Cultural Revolution; 3 'Opening Up'; Xinjiang 'opens up'; The war in the countryside; 'The most difficult work on earth'; Not all (Islamic) protests are created equal; The response to Baren; Does 'religious extremism' exist in Xinjiang?; 4 Striking Hard: The 1990s; The breaking of the iron rice bowl; Separate worlds; Protest songs; Seeking escape; A two-faced strategy; 'Nothing from the government'
5 ExilesKadeer's leadership of the WUC; Kadeer's political career; Fallout; 6 The Peacock Flies West; 'Bilingual' education; China joins the War on Terror; Closing the west; Shrine tourism; 'Separatist' art; No longer 'volatile'?; The peacock flies north; 7 Urumqi and After: Learning the Wrong Lessons; The aftermath; 'Kill Wang Lequan'; The Xinjiang Work Forum; The death of old Kashgar; A wider transformation; Looking forward; 8 'A Perfect Bomb'; A new cycle of violence?; Kunming and after; 'Utterly vile': the trial of Ilham Tohti; Playing the same song; The main battlefield?
Summary
One of the few Western commentators to have lived in the region, journalist Nick Holdstock travels into the heart of the province reveals the Uyghur story as one of repression and hardship. With Islamic terrorism in China likely to increase over the next decade, how the Party responds will have global repercussions. 'China's forgotten people' explains why terrorism is on the rise in the world's most powerful one-party state, and what this means for the way we think about China
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and index
