Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/7yXUo5O Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland China's Muslim Borderland By: S. Frederick Starr Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780765613172, 0765613174 eText ISBN: 9781317451365, 1317451368 Edition: 1st Pages: 528 Copyright year: 2004 Format: EPUB Available from $ 23.98 USD SKU 9781317451365R90 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. Additional ISBNs 9781317451372, 9781317451365, 9780765613172, 9780765613189, 1317451376, 1317451368, 0765613174, 0765613182
