Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland 2015 : Starr, S. Frederick

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Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland (Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus)
by S. Frederick Starr (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

Contents

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 Nineteenth 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

12 Acculturation and Resistance Xinjiang Identities in Flux

Justin Rudelson and William Jankowiak

13 Islam in Xinjiang

Graham E. Fuller and Jonathan N. Lipman

14 Contested Histories

Gardner Bovingdon, with contributions by Nabijan Tursun

15 Responses to Chinese Rule Patterns of Cooperation and Opposition

Dru C. Gladney

Notes

Bibliographic Guide to Xinjiang

Contributors

Index

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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 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 1998. The authors have combined their fieldwork experience, linguistic skills, and disciplinary expertise to assemble the first multifaceted introduction to Xinjiang. The volume surveys the region's geography; its history of military and political subjugation to China; economic, social, and commercial conditions; demography, public health, and ecology; and patterns of adaption, resistance, opposition, and evolving identities.
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"Xinjiang is well-structured to cover a wide range of domestic and international perspectives and well-edited to make the term "readable" applicable. S. Frederick Starr and his international group of collaborators have my congratulations on the publication of Xinjiang--a fresh, timely, and readable work for anyone concerned about the key issues surrounding China and Asia."
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bruce kittrick
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Eye opening account of the use of Xinjiang as a ...
Reviewed in the United States on 5 September 2016

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Eye opening account of the use of Xinjiang as a pawn in the WW2 conflict between the USSR and PRC/Kuomintang. The later split between Mao and the USSR probably has it's roots in this conflict rarely examined in the West.

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China Letter
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A sweeping survey of Xinjiang
Reviewed in the United States on 13 October 2011
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"Xinjiang: China's Muslim borderland." brings together 15 of the world's experts on Xinjiang, and the Muslim ethnic minorities that live there, and provides for a broad survey of a region of China's north-west that has been, for centuries, at the very crossroads of civilisations.



Contributors such as Dru Gladney, James Millward and Gardner Bovington, all renowned experts, introduce us to this magical, historical and extremely important area of China. An area that for reasons of economics and strategic importance, not to mention it's sheer size, comprising 1/6th of China's landmass, provides many challenges and opportunities for China, none more important than the challenges posed by, and for, the near majority Muslim population.



This book, written by academics, is easily accessible for the non academic and is a perfect overall introduction to Xinjiang and in particular the Uyghur Muslim people. It covers history, economics the environment, military considerations and important social issues, the latter the main reason for Xinjiang coming to the world's attention in the late 1980's



This book, first published in 2004 and unfortunately yet to be revised, was borne out of the world's need to understand Xinjiang especially as it concerns the Uyghur people and China's policy towards them. A policy that has resulted in many mass clashes leading to severe oppression, imprisonments, religious persecution, executions and death in "strike hard" programmes and Han in-migration as China attempts to Sinocise the region.



The book, being seven years old, obviously is dated in terms of statistical data provided but, that aside, the issues canvassed are no less relevant today as they were then.



If you read no other book on Xinjiang you will have a more than acceptable level of appreciation of this fantastic region and it's peoples. @ChinaLetter

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