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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, Mongo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Starr, S. Frederick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe Inc., ©2004.
Colección:Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 dangerous part of the world? This comprehensive survey of contemporary Xinjiang is the result of a major collaborative research project begun in 199.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xv, 484 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781317451372
1317451376