Oasis Identities: Uyghur Nationalism Along China's Silk Road

by Justin Jon Rudelson

Book Overview

The rising tide of ethnic nationalism that has swept across Central Asia in the past decade has energized efforts by the Chinese government to win favor among its ethnic minorities. As a result, China has granted the Uyghurs--a Turkic Muslim people who inhabit the oases of China's far northwestern province, Xinjiang--special previledges, opening up international borders, reestablishing long-severed transborder contacts and trade networks, and allowing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231107870
• ISBN13: 9780231107877
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"