Xinjiang : China's Muslim borderland /

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Imprint:Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe Inc., c2004.
Description:xv, 484 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5159562
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Other authors / contributors:Starr, S. Frederick.
ISBN:0765613174 (hard cover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 19th 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 Xinjiang
  • 8. 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 Gardner Bovingdon with contributions
  • 15. Responses to Chinese Rule: Patterns of Cooperations and Opposition
  • Notes
  • Bibliographic Guide to Xinjiang
  • Contributors
  • Index