Xinjiang : China's Muslim borderland
S. Frederick Starr (Editor)
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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Print version:
pt. I. Historical background
pt. II. Chinese policy today
pt. III. Xinjiang from within
pt. IV. Costs of control and development
pt. V. The indigenous response
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