Xinjiang : China's Muslim Borderland.

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 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 -- 15. Responses to Chinese Rule: Patterns of Cooperation and Opposition -- Notes -- Bibliographic Guide to Xinjiang -- Contributors -- Index.

Xinjiang or the New Territory, makes up a sixth of China's land mass. This work surveys the region's geography; its history of military and political subjugation to China; economic, social, and commercial conditions; demography, public health, and ecology; and patterns of adaption, resistance, opposition, and evolving identities.

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