Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland

by S. Frederick Starr

Book Overview

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 twenty-first century ascendancy, or will nascent Islamic radicalism in Xinjiang expand the orbit of instability in a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765613182
• ISBN13: 9780765613189
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 506 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 8.9"