Table of Contents

List of Tables and Illustrative Materials, List of Acronyms, Note on Transliteration, 1. Introduction, Part I. Historical Background, 2. Political and Cultural History of the Xinjiang Region through the Late Nineteenth Century, 3. Political History and Strategies of Control, 1884-1978, Part II. Chinese Policy Today, 4. The Chinese Program of Development and Control, 1978-2001, 5. The Great Wall of Steel: Military and Strategy in Xinjiang, Part III. Xinjiang from Within, 6. The Economy of Xinjiang, 7. Education and Social Mobility among Minority Populations in Xinjiang, 8. A Land of Borderlands: Implications of Xinjiang's Trans-border Interactions, Part IV. Costs of Control and Development, 9. The Demography of Xinjiang, 10. The Ecology of Xinjiang: A Focus on Water, 11. Public Health and Social Pathologies in Xinjiang, Part V. The Indigenous Response, 12. Acculturation and Resistance: Xinjiang Identities in Flux, 13. Islam in Xinjiang, 14. Contested Histories, 15. Responses to Chinese Rule: Patterns of Cooperation and Opposition, Notes, Bibliographic Guide to Xinjiang, Contributors, Index

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Starr, S. Frederick

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"Xinjiang is well-structured to cover a wide range of domestic and international perspectives and well-edited to make the term "readable" applicable. S. Frederick Starr and his international group of collaborators have my congratulations on the publication of Xinjiang--a fresh, timely, and readable work for anyone concerned about the key issues surrounding China and Asia."