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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
eBook, English, 2015
Routledge, London [England], 2015
1 online resource (507 pages) : illustrations, maps
9781315697949, 9781317451372, 9781317451358, 9781317451365, 9780765613172, 9780765613189, 1315697947, 1317451376, 131745135X, 1317451368, 0765613174, 0765613182
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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
English