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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788164603321

Titolo

Xinjiang : China's Muslim borderland / / S. Frederick Starr, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2015

ISBN

1-317-45136-8

0-7656-1318-2

1-315-69794-7

1-317-45137-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (507 p.)

Collana

Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus

Altri autori (Persone)

StarrS. Frederick

Disciplina

951/.6

Soggetti

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2004 by M.E. Sharpe.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables and Illustrative Materials; List of Acronyms; Note on Transliteration; 1. Introduction; Part I. Historical Background; 2. Political and Cultural History of the Xinjiang Region through the Late Nineteenth Century; 3. Political History and Strategies of Control, 1884-1978; Part II. Chinese Policy Today; 4. The Chinese Program of Development and Control, 1978-2001; 5. The Great Wall of Steel: Military and Strategy in Xinjiang; Part III. Xinjiang from Within; 6. The Economy of Xinjiang

7. Education and Social Mobility among Minority Populations in Xinjiang8. A ""Land of Borderlands"": Implications of Xinjiang's Trans-border Interactions; Part IV. Costs of Control and Development; 9. The Demography of Xinjiang; 10. The Ecology of Xinjiang: A Focus on Water; 11. Public Health and Social Pathologies in Xinjiang; Part V. The Indigenous Response; 12. Acculturation and Resistance: Xinjiang Identities in Flux; 13. Islam in Xinjiang; 14. Contested Histories; 15. Responses to Chinese Rule: Patterns of Cooperation and Opposition; Notes; Bibliographic Guide to Xinjiang; Contributors

Index

Sommario/riassunto

Eastern Turkestan, now known as Xinjiang or the New Territory, makes up a sixth of China's land mass. Absorbed by the Qing in the 1880s



and reconquered by Mao in 1949, this Turkic-Muslim region of China's remote northwest borders on formerly Soviet Central Asia, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Mongolia, and Tibet, Will Xinjiang participate in twenty-first century ascendancy, or will nascent Islamic radicalism in Xinjiang expand the orbit of instability in a dangerous part of the world? This comprehensive survey of contemporary Xinjiang is the result of a major collaborative research project begun in 199

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910895703503321

Titolo

中国农业科学/#/中國農業科學 [[Chung Kuo Nung Yeh K'O Hsueh]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Beijing, : Nong ye chu ban she

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

630/.951

Soggetti

Agriculture - China

Agriculture

Periodicals.

China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Cinese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed