Xinjiang: China's Muslim Far Northwest

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Xinjiang, the nominally autonomous region in China's far northwest, is of increasing international strategic and economic importance. With a population which is mainly non-Chinese and Muslim, there are powerful forces for autonomy, and independence, in Xinjiang. This book provides a comprehensive overview of Xinjiang. It introduces Xinjiang's history, economy and society, and above all outlines the political and religious opposition by the Uyghur and other Turkic peoples of ...
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Overview

Xinjiang, the nominally autonomous region in China's far northwest, is of increasing international strategic and economic importance. With a population which is mainly non-Chinese and Muslim, there are powerful forces for autonomy, and independence, in Xinjiang. This book provides a comprehensive overview of Xinjiang. It introduces Xinjiang's history, economy and society, and above all outlines the political and religious opposition by the Uyghur and other Turkic peoples of Xinjiang to Chinese Communist rule.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780415320511
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publication date: 2/1/2004
  • Series: Durham East Asia Series
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 224
  • Lexile: 1880L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 6.30 (w) x 9.40 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Table of Contents

List of plates
Preface
Acknowledgements
Map: Northwest China
Pt. I Introduction to Xinjiang 1
1 Xinjiang's geographical position 3
2 Xinjiang before 1949: a historical outline 8
3 Ethnic groups in northwest China on the eve of CCP control and Uyghur language and culture in twentieth-century Xinjiang 23
4 The Three Districts Revolution and 'peaceful liberation': the CCP takes political and military control 32
5 The economy of Xinjiang in the reform and opening era 37
Pt. II Turkic opposition and CCP response 49
6 Political and religious opposition to Han Chinese control (1949-1996): cultural, nationalist and Islamist 51
7 Beijing's response to opposition in Xinjiang (1980-1996) 72
8 Political leadership in Xinjiang during the People's Republic 77
9 'Strike Hard': the long hot summers of 1996 and 1997 84
10 Underground fires: the conflict continues 110
Pt. III The changing international context 131
11 New great games in Central Asia: Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Afghanistan 133
12 China and the newly independent Central Asian republics 142
13 Xinjiang and the 'war against terror' 156
Pt. IV Conclusion 163
14 Xinjiang in the twenty-first century 165
Notes 170
Bibliography 189
Index 196
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