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Routledge
506 Pages
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Routledge
506 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
List of Tables and Illustrative Materials; List of Acronyms; Note on Transliteration; 1. Introduction S. Frederick Starr; Part I. Historical Background; 2. Political and Cultural History of the Xinjiang Region Through the Late 19th Century James A. Millward and Peter C. Perdue; 3. Political History and Strategies of Control, 1884-1978 James A. Millward and Nabijan Tursun; Part II. Chinese Policy Today; 4. The Chinese Program of Development and Control, 1978-2001 Dru C. Gladney; 5. The Great Wall of Steel: Military and Strategy in Xinjiang Yitzhak Shichor; Part III. Xinjiang from Within; 6. The Economy of Xinjiang Calla Wiemer; 7. Education and Social Mobility Among Minority Populations in Xinjiang. Linda Benson; 8. A Land of Borderlands: Implications of Xinjiang's Trans-Border Interactions Sean R. Roberts; Part IV. Costs of Control and Development; 9. The Demography of Xinjiang Stanley W. Toops; 10. The Ecology of Xinjiang: A Focus on Water Stanley W. Toops; 11. Public Health and Social Pathologies in Xinjiang Jay Dautcher; Part V. The Indigenous Response
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Starr, S. Frederick
