Eurasian crossroads : a history of Xinjiang / James A. Millward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Millward, James A., 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)--History.

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (521 pages)

Edition:

Revised and updated edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Eurasian Crossroads is an engaging and comprehensive account of Xinjiang's history and people from earliest times to the present day. This revised and updated edition features new empirically grounded and balanced analysis of developments in the region up to the present, focusing on the circumstances of the Uyghur and Xinjiang peoples.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Maps and Figures

Preface and Acknowledgements

Preface to the Revised and Updated Edition

Maps

1. Ancient Encounters (earliest times-8th century)

2. Central Eurasia Ascendant (9th-16th centuries)

3. Between Islam and China (16th-19th centuries)

4. Between Empire and Nation (late 19th-early 20th century)

5. Between China and the Soviet Union (1910s-1940s)

6. In the People's Republic of China (1950s-1980s)

7. Between China and the World (1990s-2000s)

8. Colonialism, Assimilationism and Ethnocide (2000s-2020s)

Appendix: Xinjiang Historical Timeline

General Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-231-55559-8

OCLC:

1281976487