Xinjiang and China's rise in Central Asia, 1949-2009 : a history / Michael E. Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, Michael, 1977-

Series:

Routledge contemporary China series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geopolitics.

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)--Politics and government.

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China).

Geopolitics--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)--Economic integration--Political aspects.

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)--Strategic aspects.

China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.

Physical Description:

207 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Summary:

The recent conflict between indigenous Uyghurs and Han Chinese demonstrates that Xinjiang is a major trouble spot for China, with Uyghur demands for increased autonomy, and where Beijing's policy is to more firmly integrate the province within China. This book provides an account of how China's evolving integrationist policies in Xinjiang have influenced its foreign policy in Central Asia since the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949, and how the policy of integration is related to China's concern for security and its pursuit of increased power and influence in Central Asia. The book traces the development of Xinjiang - from the collapse of the Qing empire in the early twentieth century to the present - and argues that there is a largely complementary relationship between China's Xinjiang, Central Asia and grand strategy-derived interests. This pattern of interests informs and shapes China's diplomacy in Central Asia and its approach to the governance of Xinjiang. Michael E. Clarke shows how China's concerns and policies, although pursued with vigour in recent decades, are of long-standing, and how domestic problems and policies in Xinjiang have for a long time been closely bound up with wider international relations issues.

Contents:

1 China and the integration of Xinjiang: a history of a permanent provocation 1

2 Xinjiang from the Qing conquest to the Republic of China, 1750-1949 16

3 Completing the forbears behest: the resurgence of the state's integrationist project under the PRC, 1949-1976 42

4 'Crossing the river by feeling for the stones': Xinjiang in the 'reform' era, 1976-1990 72

5 Reaffirming Chinese control in the wake of Central Asia's transformation, 1991-1995 98

6 Biding time and building capabilities: Xinjiang and Chinese foreign policy in Central Asia, 1996-2001 123

7 Walking on three legs: balancing China's Xinjiang, Central Asia and grand strategy derived interests, 2002-2009 148

8 The integration of Xinjiang: securing China's 'silk road' to great power status? 171.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415584562

0415584566

9780203831113

020383111X

OCLC:

657223801