Xinjiang in the twenty-first century : Islam, ethnicity and resistance / Michael Dillon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dillon, Michael, 1949- author.

Series:

Routledge contemporary China series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Uighur (Turkic people)--Government policy--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.

Uighur (Turkic people).

Muslims--Violence against--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.

Muslims.

Uighur (Turkic people)--Violence against--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.

Uighur (Turkic people)--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu--Social conditions.

Autonomy and independence movements.

Ethnic relations--Political aspects.

Social conditions.

Government policy.

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)--History.

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China).

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)--Ethnic relations--Political aspects.

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)--History--Autonomy and independence movements.

China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, [2019]

Contents:

Political leaders of Xinjiang

Introduction: Xinjiang and the dead hand of history

Xinjiang and the Uyghurs: an overview

Part 1: Deep roots of the Xinjiang conflict

Turkic Muslims and the Chinese state: a history of conflict

Escalation of violence in the 1990s

China's Western Development Programme and Xinjiang

Part 2: Urumqi, Kashgar, Khotan: 2009-2015

Two days that shook Urumqi July 2009

Kashgar and Khotan since 2010-11: Islam, ethnicity, and traditional Uyghur culture in southern Xinjiang

Xi Jinping administration and Xinjiang: widening conflict and the search for new strategies

Part 3: Conflict and resolution in Xinjiang: the Xi Jinping era

Xinjiang and China's evolving policy on terrorism (2009-18)

Conflict in Xinjiang and its resolution.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138811058

113881105X

OCLC:

1057730534

Publisher Number:

99978834199