Xinjiang and the Expansion of Chinese Communist Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Xinjiang and the Expansion of Chinese Communist Power write by Michael Dillon. This book was released on 2014-08-01. Xinjiang and the Expansion of Chinese Communist Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Xinjiang, China's far northwestern province where the majority of the population are Muslim Uyghurs, was for most of its history contested territory. On the Silk Road, a region of overlapping cultures, the province was virtually independent until the late nineteenth century, nominally part of the Qing Empire, with considerable interest taken in it by the British and the Russians as part of their Great Game rivalry in Asia. Ruled by warlords in the early twentieth century, it was occupied in 1949-50 by the People's Liberation Army, since when attempts have been made to integrate the province more fully into China. This book outlines the history of Xinjiang. It focuses on the key city of Kashgar, the symbolic heart of Uighur society, drawing on a large body of records in which ordinary people provided information on the period around the communist takeover. These records provide an exceptionally rich source, showing how ordinary Uyghurs lived their everyday lives before 1949 and how those lives were affected by the arrival of the Chinese Communist Party and its army. Subjects covered by the book include Eastern Turkestan independence, regional politics, local government, the military, taxation, education and the press.
Xinjiang in the Twenty-First Century
Xinjiang in the Twenty-First Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Xinjiang in the Twenty-First Century write by Michael Dillon. This book was released on 2018-10-03. Xinjiang in the Twenty-First Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There has been a significant increase in the twenty-first century in the frequency and intensity of violent incidents in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the far northwest province of China, where the Uyghurs, the Turkic-speaking Muslim people who historically constituted the majority population, feel themselves displaced and discriminated against by the growing in-migration of Han Chinese. The book explores the continuing unrest in Xinjiang. It focuses in particular on the major violence of July 2009 in the city of Urumqi, on repression and the practice of Islam in southern Xinjiang, and on the policy of the Chinese Communist Party which has used the rhetoric of the "War on Terror" to justify its repression in terms which it hopes will gain sympathy from the international community. The book relates these particular points to the development of China-Uyghur relations more broadly in the longer historical perspective, and concludes by discussing how the situation is likely to unfold in future.
Chinese Communist Power and Policy in Xinjiang
Chinese Communist Power and Policy in Xinjiang - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chinese Communist Power and Policy in Xinjiang write by Donald H.. Mcmillen. This book was released on 1979-01-01. Chinese Communist Power and Policy in Xinjiang available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Wild West China
Wild West China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wild West China write by Christian Tyler. This book was released on 2004. Wild West China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Closed to the world for half a century, like a black hole in the Asian landmass, the wilderness of Xinjiang in northwest China is returning to the light. The picture it presents is both fascinating and disturbing. Despite a savage landscape and climate, Xinjiang has a rich past: sand-buried cities, painted cave shrines, rare creatures, and wonderfully preserved mummies of European appearance. Their descendants, the Uighurs, still farm the tranquil oases that ring the dreaded Taklamakan, the world's second largest sand desert, and the Kazakh and Kirghiz herdsmen still roam the mountains. The region's history, however, has been punctuated by violence, usually provoked by ambitious outsiders--nomad chieftains from the north, Muslim emirs from Central Asia, Russian generals, or warlords from inner China. The Chinese regard the far west as a barbarian land. Only in the 1760s did they subdue it, and even then their rule was repeatedly broken. Compared with the Russians' conquest of Siberia, or the Americans' trek west, China's colonization of Xinjiang has been late and difficult. The Communists have done most to develop it, as a penal colony, as a buffer against invasion, and as a supplier of raw materials and living space for an overpopulated country. But what China sees as its property, the Uighurs regard as theft by an alien occupier. Tension has led to violence and savage reprisals. This portrait of Xinjiang should be essential reading for travelers and for anyone interested in today's China and the fate of minority peoples.
The Xinjiang Problem
The Xinjiang Problem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Xinjiang Problem write by Graham E. Fuller. This book was released on 2003-01-01. The Xinjiang Problem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
