Xinjiang -- China's Muslim far northwest / Michael Dillon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dillon, Michael, 1949-

Series:

Durham East-Asia series.

Durham East-Asia series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)--History.

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China).

Physical Description:

xiv, 201 p. : ill., map.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Xinjiang, the nominally autonomous region in China's far northwest, is of increasing international strategic and economic importance. With a population which is mainly non-Chinese and Muslim, there are powerful forces for autonomy, and independence, in Xinjiang. This book provides a comprehensive overview of Xinjiang. It introduces Xinjiang's history, economy and society, and above all outlines the political and religious opposition by the Uyghur and other Turkic peoples of Xinjiang to Chinese Communist rule.

Contents:

part Part I Introduction to Xinjiang

chapter 1 Xinjiang’s geographical position

chapter 2 Xinjiang before 1949: a historical outline

chapter 3 Ethnic groups in northwest China on the eve of CCP control and Uyghur language and culture in twentieth-century Xinjiang

chapter 4 The Three Districts Revolution and ‘peacful liberation’

control Three Districts Revolution or Islamic Republic?

chapter 5 The economy of Xinjiang in the reform and opening era

part Part II Turkic opposition and CCP response

chapter 6 Political and religious opposition to Han Chinese control (1949–1996)

Cultural, nationalist and Islamist

chapter 7 Beijing’s response to opposition in Xinjiang (1980–1996)

chapter 8 Political leadership in Xinjiang during the People’s Republic

chapter 9 ‘Strike Hard’: the long hot summers of 1996 and 1997

chapter 10 Underground fires: the conflict continues

part Part III The changing international context

chapter 11 New great games in Central Asia

Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan

chapter 12 China and the newly independent Central Asian republics

chapter 13 Xinjiang and the ‘war against terror’

part Part IV Conclusion

chapter 14 Xinjiang in the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-195) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-36095-9

1-134-36096-7

1-280-05467-0

0-415-32051-8

0-203-16664-7

9780203166642

OCLC:

56330776