Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland / Edition 1

by S. Frederick Starr

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765613172
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/31/2004
Series:	Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus
Pages:	506
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.50(d)

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Illustrative Materials, List of Acronyms, Note on Transliteration, 1. Introduction, Part I. Historical Background, 2. Political and Cultural History of the Xinjiang Region through the Late Nineteenth Century, 3. Political History and Strategies of Control, 1884-1978, Part II. Chinese Policy Today, 4. The Chinese Program of Development and Control, 1978-2001, 5. The Great Wall of Steel: Military and Strategy in Xinjiang, Part III. Xinjiang from Within, 6. The Economy of Xinjiang, 7. Education and Social Mobility among Minority Populations in Xinjiang, 8. A Land of Borderlands: Implications of Xinjiang's Trans-border Interactions, Part IV. Costs of Control and Development, 9. The Demography of Xinjiang, 10. The Ecology of Xinjiang: A Focus on Water, 11. Public Health and Social Pathologies in Xinjiang, Part V. The Indigenous Response, 12. Acculturation and Resistance: Xinjiang Identities in Flux, 13. Islam in Xinjiang, 14. Contested Histories, 15. Responses to Chinese Rule: Patterns of Cooperation and Opposition, Notes, Bibliographic Guide to Xinjiang, Contributors, Index