The Emperor far away : travels at the edge of China / David Eimer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eimer, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eimer, David--Travel--China.

Eimer, David.

Boundaries.

Travel.

China--Boundaries--Travel.

China.

China--Description and travel.

Physical Description:

322 pages : maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury, 2014.

Summary:

The longer I stayed in Kashgar, the more I began to realize that Xinjiang was a country within a country, one with far doser connections to its central Asian neighbors than to China. the Sunday market, the social event of the week, was an exhilarating mix of local tongues and minorities. Ethnic Kyrgyz and Tajiks from the surrounding countryside arrived on donkey carts piled high with watermelons, or trailing dispirited lines of sheep, to join the Uighurs and Pakistanis in selling their wares. the different languages vied with each other to such overpowering effect that I no longer felt I was in China. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I. Xinjiang : the new frontier. 'Uighurs are like pandas'

The new Silk Road

Exiles

The great game again

Return to Kashgar

Three borders

Uighurstan

Part II. Tibet : the wild west. The Tibetan borderlands

Lhasa

A night at the Nangma

U-Tsang

High plateau drifter

The precious jewel of the snows

Going down

Part III. Yunnan : trouble in paradise. Shiny happy minorities

Dailand

Down the Mekong

The Dai diaspora

With the Wa

Women for sale

Part IV. Dongbei : pushing the boundaries. The Pyongyang express

The third Korea

Spreading the word

The Arctic borderlands

Along the Amur

An empire expanding.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-310) and index.

"First published in Great Britain in 2014"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

9781620403631 :

1620403633

OCLC:

860395828