Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland: China's Muslim Borderland

by Starr,S. Frederick

• ISBN13: 9780765613172
• ISBN10: 0765613174
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 product of a major collaborative research project begun in 1998. The authors join 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 subjection to China; economic, social, and commercial conditions; demography, public health, and ecology; and patterns of adaptation, resistance, opposition, and evolving identities.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Illustrative Materials	vii
List of Acronyms	ix
Note on Transliteration	xi
Introduction	3	(24)
S. Frederick Starr
Part I. Historical Background
Political and Cultural History of the Xinjiang Region through the Late Nineteenth Century	27	(36)
James A. Millward
Peter C. Perdue
Political History and Strategies of Control, 1884--1978	63	(38)
James A. Millward
Nabijan Tursun
Part II. Chinese Policy Today
The Chinese Program of Development and Control, 1978--2001	101	(19)
Dru C. Gladney
The Great Wall of Steel: Military and Strategy in Xinjiang	120	(43)
Yitzhak Shichor
Part III. Xinjiang from Within
The Economy of Xinjiang	163	(27)
Calla Wiemer
Education and Social Mobility among Minority Populations in Xinjiang	190	(26)
Linda Benson
A ``Land of Borderlands'': Implications of Xinjiang's Trans-border Interactions	216	(25)
Sean R. Roberts
Part IV. Costs of Control and Development
The Demography of Xinjiang	241	(23)
Stanley W. Toops
The Ecology of Xinjiang: A Focus on Water	264	(12)
Stanley W. Toops
Public Health and Social Pathologies in Xinjiang	276	(23)
Jay Dautcher
Part V. The Indigenous Response
Acculturation and Resistance: Xinjiang Identities in Flux	299	(21)
Justin Rudelson
William Jankowiak
Islam in Xinjiang	320	(33)
Graham E. Fuller
Jonathan N. Lipman
Contested Histories	353	(22)
Gardner Bovingdon
Nabijan Tursun
Responses to Chinese Rule: Patterns of Cooperation and Opposition	375	(22)
Dru C. Gladney
Notes	397	(54)
Bibliographic Guide to Xinjiang	451	(12)
Contributors	463	(6)
Index	469