[Discussion] PUBL.- S. Frederick Starr (Ed.), Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland

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PUBL.- S. Frederick Starr (Ed.), Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland

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 China's 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 1998. The authors have
combined their fieldwork experience, linguistic skills, and disciplinary
expertise to assemble the first multifaceted introduction to Xinjiang.
The volume 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
adaptation, resistance, opposition, and evolving identities.

You can get your copy at: Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, SAIS, JHU,
r.630, 1619 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. Price is $20 per
copy. Please add $5 SH, if you would like it to be mailed to you.

Please forward all your inquiries to (202) 663-7721 or
caci2@mail.jhuwash.jhu.edu


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